“Let’s stop resisting and go on the offensive, because there is a country waiting.” With this phrase Carles Puigdemont began his new term as president of Junts, a position he regained after two years formally separated from the party.
The former president has taken advantage of the renewal of the executive that his party is carrying out in its third congress to present himself leading a direction that Jordi Turull will command, as general secretary, a position in which he has already held since 2022. 90.18% of the militancy has endorsed the candidacy, which was the only list that had been presented.
Puigdemont’s return to the presidency of Junts contradicts the promise he made during the campaign, when he assured that he would abandon politics if he did not win the presidency of the Generalitat. “I cannot do active politics if I do not have the responsibility of the presidency,” assured in the microphones of Rac1.
That promise has faded, but the Junts leader brings a new one, which is to take the independence movement out of “winter quarters,” as he has said, to enter a phase of combat for independence.
Puigdemont has assured that the congress that Junts has held in Calella has resulted in a more “open” party, which he has compared to the Junts pel Sí coalition, which incorporated left-wing formations.
The new president of Junts has also praised that the party has maintained the option of unilaterality in its political presentation, although this same document also assumes negotiation with the State and even explicitly rejected breaking the pact with the PSOE in Congress. However, Puigdemont has assured that they are not “married to anyone in Madrid.”
In addition to Puigdemont and Turull, the new leadership will be made up of four vice-presidencies, the spokesperson in Congress, Míriam Nogueras, the leader of the Demòcrates formation, which has just joined Junts, Antoni Castellà, the spokesperson for the formation, Josep Rius and the spokesperson of the parliamentary group in the Parliament, Mònica Sales. In addition, the executive will consist of 25 members. Among these will be Judith Toronjo as organizational secretary and Teresa Pallarès in finance. Pilar Calvo will also be the president of the National Council.
In the party they do not hide that the new executive is a team designed to suit Carles Puigdemont. The former president has now decided to make his return to the Junts leadership official, although in practice Puigdemont took the reins in the summer of 2023 to negotiate the support of his deputies for the investiture of Pedro Sánchez.
Source: www.eldiario.es
