President Salvador Illa’s visit to the Jaén oil fair in Sabadell sparked controversy. Junts, ERC and the CUP accused him of promoting competition among Catalan oil producers.
Last Sunday, Illa made an institutional visit to the City Hall of Sabadell and took advantage of the event to close with a speech the first Oil Fair of Jaén in the city, an event organized by the Provincial Delegation and the Government of Andalusia for make the company known in the sector abroad.
This visit outraged parties like Junts, ERC and the CUP, who also criticize him for having participated in this event and not in other oil fairs in Catalonia, such as the one organized this same weekend in Maials, at which he attended. , Oscar Ordeig.
ERC Deputy Secretary General Marta Vilalta described as “absurd” the fact that Illa was “promoting foreign oil.” “Catalonia is a country of oil, and of excellent quality! Those of the Garrigues, but also of Terres de l’Ebre, Siurana and Empordà particularly stand out”, he defended, adding that “the country and its inhabitants always defend themselves, everywhere, every day, in every action.
Agreeing with her was Jordi Turull, secretary general of Junts, who also accused Illa of celebrating the competitors of Catalan oil producers and accused him of being “a president more concerned with pleasing Spain and the PSOE than to defend Catalonia. “Catalan oil producers produce an excellent product with great effort. They need a president of the Generalitat and a government that supports them and not one that favors competition,” he published in X.
On the same platform, Laia Estrada, CUP deputy in Parliament, considered it “regrettable” that Illa was dedicated to “promoting the oil of Andalusian landowners who are in direct competition”.
In his speech at the fair, Illa described as “excellent” the idea of the producers of Jaén to “not stay at home” and to make their oil known outside of Andalusia. “I will do it too, I want to travel across Spain to explain to us from Catalonia,” he said. “Listening to yourself and explaining yourself allows you to undo misunderstandings and malicious information. »
