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“We will not abandon the Catalans, we will not take a single step back”


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«Everything begins. No more hanging your head.” With slogans like this, Valents had summoned the public this Saturday to publicly present his political project of constitutionalist unity in Catalonia. Although it will be the polls that will guarantee the new party, more than 300 people, the maximum allowed in the grounds of the Born Center Cultural in Barcelona, ​​have supported the proposal in an act in which the promoters of the project have ratified their commitment to work for all Catalans and against nationalism.

Eva Parera, the most visible face of the new party, wanted to begin her speech by making clear her «firm commitment: we will not leave Catalonia, we will not abandon the Catalans». Training sources point out to ABC that they see themselves interceding in state politics, and they do not rule out a candidacy in Congress, for example, but without creating territorial factions that go beyond Catalan territory.

“Here we will continue, we will not take a step back,” continued the leader of the local group of Valents in the Barcelona City Council. Parera, who will also be the mayor of the formation facing the municipal elections of May 2023, has criticized that “Catalonia does not belong to some, we have to internalize this concept.”

“The divisions weaken us, they make us poorer. The independence movement has managed to divide the adversaries”, recalled Parera, who recalled that the current difficult situation can only be turned around “only in one way: adding, adding, adding forces, acronyms and parties. Either we react at once or the decline of Catalonia will be very difficult to reverse. In addition, Parera has assured that “so that everyone is clear: Welcome to the Catalan UPN».

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Joan López Alegre, another of its promoters and a former deputy for the PP, has reiterated Valents’s intentions and has insisted that “stability, unity and harmony is the recipe for dealing with the decline of Catalonia.” López Alegre has emphasized current problems such as squatting, the spending of institutions for the independence cause or the flight of companies. «The real exiles are neither in Waterloo nor in Switzerland. They are the businessmen who have had to flee because of separatism,” he snapped.

The political scientist and consultant Juan Arza, who was in charge of presenting the event, highlighted that Valents “is the project that Catalan society, and I dare say that Spanish society as well, needs”. He himself, in addition, has also made it clear that the formation presented this Saturday “It does not intend to become one more part of the partyocracy. He is not going to leave Catalonia and is going to dedicate himself exclusively to defending the Catalan constitutionalists.

Against those who want to destroy Spain

The promoters of Valents have also made it clear that one of their objectives is that the Government does not return to depending on parties “that want to destroy Spain”, Arza has remarked. The main lines of the program, which have been known today, emphasize that independence parties such as JpC, ERC, the CUP or Bildu «blackmail, are disloyal and use their power to attack citizens who do not think like them».

Paula Añó, one of the first to speak, got the first great applause of the event by defending that she wants «a Barcelona in which I can dare to say Long live the King!». “Independence will win if we are separated. he has known how to join… and ‘ho will return to fer’ (alluding to Jordi Cuixart’s phrase during the trial for 1-O)«.

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The same argument has been one of the most defended by Jean Castel, one of the historic positions of Cs in Gerona and who has joined the proposal of Valents, who has called for the union of constitutionalism “to put an end to nationalism, to have a new fund of opportunities. «We have not come to put band-aids but solutions to each problem”, he added.

Yeray Mellado, one of the youngest members of the team and who presided over the student entity S’ha Acabat!, also spoke to remind us that “we are here for freedom and equality”. «We are not here to get a couple or three deputies. We are here to win, to govern and to defend all Catalans”, he remarked, while making a call to involve the youngest: “we have to get involved in politics, things are not changed from the sofa”.

The platform has chosen, as already advanced, the Born Center for Culture and Memory, a facility in the center of Barcelona steeped in centuries of history and that in recent years has been used especially by the independence movement and that is the perfect example of what the training wants to achieve: put an end to the appropriation by certain groups of some spaces or institutions. «No place in Catalonia is exclusive to independence; Catalonia belongs to everyone”, they emphasize in this sense.

After today’s staging, Valents gets down to work to celebrate in one or two months a founding congress to start working to be present in the 947 Catalan municipalities. For the new formation, this is essential so that the law is respected and management is focused on the municipalities’ own competences and not on being, as until now, sectarian and useless speakers of independence.

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