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Junts Accuses Illa of “Renunciing” to Defend the Interests of the Catalans After His Meeting with Puigdemont

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The Junts Permanent Executive Committee met this Wednesday in Waterloo, Belgium, with former President Carles Puigdemont, following Tuesday’s meeting with President Salvador Illa in Brussels. On the one hand, the party has accused the current head of the executive of “resigning” to defend the interests of the Catalans. On the other hand, they have presented themselves as “alternative to the denationalization and impoverishment of the country” an…

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The Junts Permanent Executive Committee met this Wednesday in Waterloo, Belgium, with former President Carles Puigdemont, following Tuesday’s meeting with President Salvador Illa in Brussels. On the one hand, the party has accused the current head of the executive of “resigning” to defend the interests of the Catalans. On the other hand, they have presented themselves as “alternative to the denationalization and impoverishment of the country” an…

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Sánchez began the course with two measures: the condoning of autonomic indebtedness and Illa’s visit to the former president, which supported his relations with ERC and Junts and sought to re-encourage the majority. Illa met with Puigdemont in Brussels to consolidate his “political amnesty” Carles Puigdemont had been demanding a “political amnesty” from the Government for months, which he believed was symbolically rehabilitating him as an interl…

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To the smallest detail of the staging of the meeting between Salvador Illa and Carles Puigdemont was agreed between the two cabinets . So that no setback would bother a date that had been made begging more than thirteen months. A room of white tones, with two identical black armchairs, a small glass table and two ficus at each end. All very minimalist, giving prominence to the two politicians.For that reason of agreeing everything, the absence o…

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The recent meeting in Brussels between Salvador Illa, president of the Generalitat, and Carles Puigdemont has been interpreted by many as another chapter in the series of concessions of the Government of Pedro Sánchez to Catalan independence. What some call a “normalization of dialogue”, others see it as a claudication and a political humiliation. [...]

The shameful meeting between Salvador Illa and Carles Puigdemont. The President of the Generality and the fugitive of Justice met in the delegation of the Generality in Brussels. The first meeting since the socialist came to the presidency of the region. The meeting took place without official flags, at the request of the leader of Junts, because he did not want the flag of Spain to be present. Some, like Toni Bolaño, ate with potatoes the theat…

The Catalan president, Salvador Illa, and the independence leader, Carles Puigdemont, have seen each other face to face in Brussels. Without flags, in neutral terrain. Illa talks about dialogue, Puigdemont answers: there is no normality and that is why I am out. The photo arrives just before the budgets and with amnesty in the air.

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