The independentistas have known as a protest to which ERC will be a part of It can have the President of the Government, Pedro Sánchez, and the President of France, Emmanuel Macron Aragonés will solely take part in greeting Macron in Barcelona and a gathering with Sánchez will not be anticipated
On official paper it’s the XXVII Spanish-French Summit. But the appointment this Thursday in Barcelona between the President of the Government, Pedro Sánchez, and the President of France, Emmanuel Macron is rather more, particularly in a nationwide key. In the primary place, the Catalan independence motion will measure its forces.
The independentistas have known as an indication: the Consell de la República (CdRep), ANC, Òmnium Cultural and 30 different pro-independence entities have known as to mobilize from 9 o’clock in entrance of the 4 columns of Puig i Cadafalch on Montjuïc –near the MNAC– below the motto ‘Here nothing has completed! Independence, Catalan Countries, sufficient repression’.
The pro-independence events ERC, Junts and the CUP, whose leaders will take part within the protest, have additionally joined this name, which seeks to be unified and reply to the phrases of some members of the Government who’ve affirmed that the independence course of has ended.
And there’s one other of the important thing factors of the day. ERC performs a double stability. Go to the demonstration and attend to greet Sánchez and Macron. The President of the Generalitat, Pere Aragonès, has assured that he’ll do all the pieces attainable for the Summit to go effectively: “As President of Catalonia, and given the great relations we have now with the French authorities, we’re doing all the pieces attainable to make it go effectively. “. But in flip, the Republicans will take to the streets. In Moncloa they’ve downplayed the attendance of the Republicans.
The ERC delegation on the protest will probably be headed by its chief, Oriol Junqueras, and the deputy normal secretary and spokesperson, Marta Vilalta, and also will be the vp of Parliament appearing as president, Alba Vergés; the previous president Carme Forcadell, and the mayor of Barcelona, Ernest Maragall, amongst different deputies and members of the social gathering, however it’s not anticipated that authorities ministers will attend.
The attendance of Aragonès (ERC) on the summit and of his social gathering chief on the demonstration has been branded as “contradictory” by the remainder of the pro-independence forces, and even the CUP has requested him to not take part.
The Government has opted not to surrender having illustration in areas that it considers to be theirs, nevertheless it respects and understands the mobilizations earlier than the Summit, which it considers to have “partisan functions”, within the phrases of the spokesperson for the Executive, Patrícia Plaja.
The pro-independence entities have known as for large, unitary and transversal participation within the protest to “defend that independence is extra alive than ever” and that they won’t cease till they obtain it, and the ANC has requested to put on yellow vests as an emblem of the struggle for independence. French inhabitants, and devices that make noise.
In addition, the CDR have known as a march below the motto ‘Against the Franco-Spanish Summit’ that may depart round 11:30 from the 4 columns of Puig i Cadafalch on Montjuïc and can attain the French Consulate, within the Ronda Universitat subsequent to Plaza Catalunya.
Aragonés will solely take part within the greeting
The President of the Generalitat, Pere Aragonés, will solely take part within the reception of the French delegation headed by Emmanuel Macron, with none formal assembly with the Prime Minister, Pedro Sánchez, being deliberate, in keeping with sources from Moncloa.
The function of Aragonés, together with the one which may even be the mayoress of Barcelona, Ada Colau, would be the similar that has been reserved for different regional presidents and native officers in summits of this kind with different nations in different cities, the sources have identified, stressing that that is restricted to greeting the delegation on responsibility, on this case the French, however in no case intervene within the assembly itself.
Likewise, the sources have indicated {that a} assembly between Aragonés and Sánchez will not be anticipated, though each will foreseeably have the chance to speak whereas they await Macron’s arrival on the National Art Museum of Catalonia (MNAC), which is able to host this occasion.
Both the Spanish and French governments have additionally downplayed the truth that Catalan civil society organizations have known as an indication to coincide with the summit attended by leaders of ERC, Junts and the CUP.