The government of Salvador Illa will use the FC Barcelona footballer Lamine YamalEuropean champion with the Spanish football team, for political purposes. Specifically, the young athlete from Mataró will appear in a video declaring his “love for Catalonia” at the institutional event of the Diada that will take place at the Montjuïch fountain in Barcelona.
In addition to Yamal in the video that will be shown during the last act of the Diada, the Blaugrana footballer will also appear Aitana Bonmati, the separatist writer Marius Serra and the journalist Husband Pau Huguet. All of them will explain in the audiovisual document “their feelings towards Catalonia” in a clear manner.
This year’s Diada will be the first with a non-independence government at the head of the Generalitat. Although the majority of events will be very similar to those of previous years, with the exception of the participation of the president In the separatist demonstration, the new Illa government wanted to leave its mark on the programming of the Diada of 2024. This is why the cabinet led by the socialist invited personalities such as Lamine Yamal, whose career took off with the Eurocup last July.
The Catalan Executive wants it to be a “transversal, fully cultural” event that represents the plurality of Catalonia. Lamine Yamal has become very popular, precisely because of his constant defense of the multiculturalism of his neighborhood, his hometown of Mataró. In that same neighborhood, in the city located half an hour from Barcelona, Lamine Yamal’s father was stabbed a few weeks ago. The two have gained ground between them.
According to government sources, who want to emphasize the need to make it an increasingly inclusive Diada, after several years of kidnapping the day of this autonomous community by separatism, “this celebration will show the different ways of experiencing Catalonia of the diversity of its society. Likewise, according to the Catalan Executive, the events planned for this Wednesday, September 11, “will highlight pride and the feeling of Catalanness.”
The event will combine the testimonies of the people invited to be protagonists of the Diada with poetic and musical performances of various styles. Through the already recorded words of the testimonies of Yamal, Bonmatí, Serra or Huguet, the Generalitat wants to convey to citizens what their feelings are for Catalonia.
The musical performances will be performed by Glaucs, Marala, Mama Dousha, Àngels Gonyalons and Carlos Gramaje, Elèctrica Dharma, Lluís, Marina Rossell and Rozalén, while the Escolanía de Montserrat and the Bages and Anoia choirs will perform ‘Els Reapers . ‘.
In the morning, as usual, the traditional floral offering will take place at the Rafael Casanova monument. It will be the first of Illa as president during this event in the center of Barcelona. Throughout the day, citizens will also be able to visit the facilities of the Palau de la Generalitat. The regional president will go there, after finishing the floral offering, to receive the first Catalans who will approach the seat of the Catalan government.
