04/29/2020 17:18
Montilla Newsroom
The former president of the Generalitat, José
Montilla, has asked the independence movement to pause the process while the
health emergency lasts and has urged the Catalan government to join the pacts
for reconstruction promoted by the central executive: “Do not use the
proces to prevent or hinder that state pact for social and economic
reconstruction”.
The former socialist leader has requested it in an
article published this Wednesday in La Vanguardia, where he has defended that a
pact similar to the one proposed by Pedro Sánchez will be required in Catalonia
and has asked the Catalan executive not to remain on the sidelines of the one
promoted by the central government : “Catalonia must be part of the
solutions and not an obstacle to achieving them. To defend the prestige and
usefulness of our institutions of self-government, too doomed to political
confrontation. To defend self-government itself and guarantee, with
constructive participation, that the measures adopted do not imply any backward
step in the distribution of the territorial power”.
Montilla has made it clear that he is not calling
on the independence movement to renounce its political objective, but rather a
stop: “I ask for a pause. Not a resignation, nor an abandonment of the
dialogue necessary to seek solutions to the underlying political problems
” At the same time, the former Catalan president has recalled that
independence is an objective “entirely legitimate if it is placed within
the framework of respect for the democratic rules of the game.”
Likewise, the former Catalan president has asked that the criticisms made
of the other public administrations be accompanied by a “constructive
spirit” and “co-responsibility.” “What is the point in becoming
prophets of the catastrophe, telling others what is to be done without being
able to do correctly what is under their own competences? “, the former
senator of the PSC questioned.
Montilla has pointed out that the current crisis is much more serious than that
of 2008, has admitted that many citizens felt unprotected by governments and
has regretted that some political leaders added to the climate of
dissatisfaction with political interests: “In Catalonia, someone
considered the usefulness of riding the wave of dissatisfaction to avoid the
consequences and get political returns. We have seen the result: a lost decade
for our country”.
On the other hand, the former president of the Generalitat has assured that we
must work to save both the economy and health, since he understands that there
is no dichotomy between the two areas.
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