On Tuesday evening, already during the first official events of the Diada, the first noises began to be heard. screams and whistles which continued throughout the day. From “traitors” to “you sold out when we were about to proclaim independence”, even some “you are deceiving the people, sons of bitches”, or even “you are worse than the PSC”. Most of the insults were aimed at ERC because the “yes” from Father Aragonès to Salvador Illa breaks the few threads that remained in the independence movement.
ERC spokesman at the Congress, Gabriel Rufianinsisted to Congress on Wednesday that these attacks are not new and assured that “we have been having breakfast, lunch and dinner with this for years.”This is part of a media campaign and political that one day we will know its origin and financing, even if many of us already know it,” he added.
However, Junts makes another reading and defends that it is about freedom of expression. This was stated by the secretary general of Junts, Jordi Turull, who said that “each party must reflect on its people.”
The independence movement took to the streets this Wednesday, completely confronted and more broken and divided than ever in a Diada that, for the first time since the trial, is celebrated with a non-independence president. A day marked by insults against the Republican Left of Catalonia and its pact with the socialists of Illawho was invested president, a decision heavily criticized by the rest of the pro-independence parties.
