From left: Antoni Comín, Clara Ponsatí and Carles Puigdemont, in February 2020, at the presentation of the Consell in France. Albert García
Some members of the internal political action commission of the Consell de la República, the independence organization headed by Carles Puigdemont from Brussels, sent a letter to the former president this Thursday expressing their dissatisfaction with his decision to dissolve the elected assembly and give up more Power to the leadership organization he leads. “This arrogant and Spanish approach is typical of the leadership of political parties with little or no internal democracy and is contrary to the values of the Republic in which we want to live,” they defend in their letter. According to Vilaweb, the signatories include Josep Guia, Jaume Sastre, Mercè Zamora and Dolors Quintana.
“Why such a rush?” is the title of the letter to the leadership under Puigdemont, who also expressed his willingness to dissolve the assembly in a letter last Tuesday. Critics criticize the former president’s decision to dissolve the college and the proposal to replace it with two new internal organizations “was made unexpectedly on August 28, 79 days before the end of the mandate” and abandoned the October elections They wait and renew themselves.
According to the document accessed by Europa Press, the signatories describe the MEP’s decision to end the meeting as an “exercise of Bonapartist authoritarianism”. This decision is “incompatible with the values and importance of the Consell de la República”. Puigdemont is betting on a restructuring of the company so that it has two chambers: one in charge of representing local councils and bases, and another in charge of drafting “republican laws”.
Puigdemont founded the Consell de la República after deciding to open an international front to defend Catalan independence. According to his plan, the Consell would act as a paragovernment outside Catalonia, awaiting secession and protecting the roadmap to independence. However, mistrust between secessionist forces has frustrated its work and the ERC remains on the sidelines.
The former president’s decision in absentia in Brussels also coincides with the previous talks trying to agree on the investiture of Pedro Sánchez, which require the votes of the Junts per Catalunya. A year ago, Puigdemont gave up the presidency of the party he founded to devote himself to the Consell.
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