STRAIGHT
The president of the Generalitat de Catalunya Pere Aragonès, in a current picture. Europa Press-NIUS
It is the second time that the Christmas speech is held on the twenty sixth (Sant Esteve’s Day) and never on December 30 as was regular. Aragonès has determined to carry the speech on the Library of Catalonia, situated in an previous Gothic hospital in Barcelona. happens at a time of most stress with the Constitutional and after the repeal of sedition and the reform of embezzlement
The President of the Generalitat of Catalonia, Pere Aragonès, provides his Christmas speech this Monday from the Library of Catalonia in Barcelona. For the second consecutive 12 months, Aragonès has modified the date of the standard Christmas message. He has moved it to the day of Sant Esteve, which is a vacation in Catalonia, as a substitute of doing it on December 30, on the finish of the 12 months, as was often performed till 2019.
Aragonès all the time seeks to make his speeches in areas with a excessive symbolic content material. Last 12 months, the message was delivered from the Rosselló Pòrcel faculty in Santa Coloma de Gramanet, in Barcelona, one of many first facilities the place Catalan language immersion was utilized. This 12 months it’s the Library of Catalonia, which has been the “nationwide library of the nation” since 1981 and the place work is being performed to “promote and take care of the Catalan language”.
Aragonés will tackle his countrymen simply at a time of most institutional stress on the state stage, after the reform of the Penal Code by which the crime of sedition is repealed and that of embezzlement is diminished, in addition to the failed authorities try to scale back majorities to elect members of the Constitutional Court.
You can observe the speech dwell on NIUS.