Miguel Tellado, spokesman for the Popular Group in the Congress of Deputies, reacted to the image of Santos Cerdan, number three of the PSOE, with a lookalike of Carles Puigdemont, leader of Junts, who OKDIARIO published this Friday. “A picture is worth a thousand words. They sell you, lie to you and laugh in your face. This is Sanchism,” said the Galician deputy in a publication on his social networks about the image of Cerdán.
OKDIARIO published this Friday the image of Santos Cerdán, a trusted man of Pedro Sanchez to negotiate with the independentists, posing next to a fake Carles Puigdemont, a woman disguised as Mosso d’Esquadra and an estelada. The photo was taken during the patron saint festivities of Milagro, the socialist’s hometown in Navarre. Cerdán has led the negotiations to obtain the support of the pro-independence parties, both to secure the investiture of Pedro Sánchez as president of the government and to reach agreements that would allow the legislature to get back on track. The socialist will probably travel to Geneva again to negotiate government support with the pro-independence movement. Sánchez desperately needs the Junt’s votes to approve the budgets.
The photo of Cerdan with twice as much Puigdemont aims to ridicule the role of Mossos of the Squara when the pro-independence leader, who had been under arrest for seven years, managed to flee Catalonia again on August 8. Puigdemont returned to Spain on the day of Salvador Illa’s inauguration session, in an attempt to boycott the nomination of the socialist candidate as president of the Generalitat.
He Junta leader He arrived clandestinely in Catalonia, after living seven years in Waterloo, Belgium, and on the day of the plenary session he gave a speech in front of the Catalan Parliament. The Catalan security forces were unable to prevent, after his speech, Puigdemont He fled again, first disappearing into the crowd and then hiding in two different houses. Mossos of the Squara They launched a cage operation that covered Barcelona and then spread throughout Catalonia, but failed to find the pro-independence politician. Puigdemont He reappeared two days later at his home in Belgium.
Pedro Sanchez and the PSOE They did not come to talk about Puigdemont’s new escape. The head of the Executive was on holiday at the time in La Mareta, in Lanzarote. In addition, the head of Together could not prevent the investiture of Salvador Illa, appointed president of the Generalitat.
