Prime ministers usually have their travel priorities set when they are sworn in. Salvador Illa He does not preside over any country other than the Generalitat of Catalonia, but he has also made it clear what the first message he wants to send after becoming the first president not pro-independence in the last 14 years.
Above all, Illa wanted to come to Madrid, meet the king and celebrate the Diada – delayed – from the capital. It is the first time he has left Catalonia as president since occupying the Palau de la Generalitat. And after seeing Philip VI This morning in La Zarzuela, this afternoon he visited the Government Delegation of the Generalitat in Madrid in the company of several ministers.
Colleagues from the Council of Ministers, not so long ago, who today celebrate the return of Catalonia to the hands of the socialists. “Catalonia is back”The President of the Generalitat announced to everyone, as a region “full of hope and involved in Europe in a federal horizon.”
In the front row was the First Vice President and Minister of Finance, Maria Jesus Monterowho opposed the economic agreement that finally facilitated the agreement between the PSC and the ERC to allow the socialist to enter the Generalitat. And since Illa knows that this is the first thorn she must smooth out, she has also sent a message about it.
“Madrid and Catalonia represent 40% of Spain’s wealth. We have the responsibility to share this wealth with the rest of Spain and leave no one behind” he said.
The Minister of Defense also listened to him, Marguerite Robles; the head of Industry and Tourism, Jordi Hereu; the Minister of Territorial Policy and Democratic Memory, Angel Victor Torres; or the person responsible for Agriculture, Luis Planas.
Also present in the audience were the spokesperson for the socialist parliamentary group, Patxi LopezERC MPs like Francesc-Marc Alvaro or other personalities from the political, cultural or communications world.
difficult years
Illa said the event is an “invitation to join, share and live together.” “Windows of knowledge are essential to recover the climate of calm and tranquility that we manage to get back on our feet after such difficult years in which so much energy has been lost.
“We must have bridges, cross them and meet; work to reach agreements. In democracy, the foundations of cohesion are celebrated on loyal and demanding feelings. We must listen to the reasons of the other and try to put ourselves in their place,” he said.
The President of the Generalitat clarified that this is his first step in this attempt to return to the institutional path and announced that he “tour in spain “establish a climate of understanding” with other communities.
