This Wednesday, during the celebration of the National Day of September 11, Esquerra Republicana de Catalunya received boos, insults and attacks by a group of independentists. Something that the party considers “part of a media and political campaign that has been going on for years.”
The boos were suffered by the ERC delegation, led by former president Pere Aragonès at the time of the incident. And this Wednesday a group booed and insulted the Catalan team in the first Diada with Salvador Illa as president of the Generalitat of Catalonia after his pact with the Republicans, which increased the pressure because it is the first non-independent post-independence government.
People present at the celebration, especially one person, shouted insults such as “hypocrites and fucking cynics.” “My grandfather was beaten on October 1st, my grandfather was 80 years old, and now you agree with Illa…Come on, come and debate,” one individual said, according to videos that appear in this news story. He then continued to accuse those at ERC of “deceiving people”: “Hypocrites, sons of bitches, you are worse than PSC. Get out, fucking Esquerra.
The spokesman for the ERC in the Congress of Deputies, Gabriel Rufián, questioned by LaSexta about these insults, assured that “They have been having breakfast, lunch and dinner with it for years. “About five or four years ago. It’s part of a media and political campaign that one day, surely, We will know its origin and its financingeven though many of us already know that,” he said.
However, he showed the same temperance as Aragones by not flinching, assuring that “that’s how it is.” “We have almost 100 years of history“A, we have surely known worse situations,” he added. Regarding Junts, he did not want to say anything because, he assures, everything he says is intentionally misinterpreted.
“When everything happens, what we have done will be valued“, he argued in reference to the pacts with the socialists and the promotion of dialogue. And he warned: “We will see a government of the Spanish right with the Catalan right.”
