Puigdemont, to Sánchez and ERC: “The Catalan people have every right to exercise unilateralism”

The former president of the Generalitat of Catalonia Carles Puigdemont He has the full public support of ERC and the Government since his arrest last Thursday in Sardinia, but his speech remains far from the dialogue table, the terrain where the future of Catalonia is currently at stake. This Sunday, he affirmed that if the “State” does not offer an alternative project to independence and maintains “the repression” of the last four years, the Catalan people will have “all the right” to “exercise unilateralism” when the terms.

“Unilateralism is a non-violent path, and therefore it is a legitimate path, it is a path that we are not the first to follow, it has been followed by other precedents in the world that have been endorsed by international justice,” said Puigdemont to the press in Oristano, where he met with a group of local pro-independence authorities on the Italian island.

In his opinion, “it is a last resort”, but he added: “No one can deny us this right, no one who refuses to negotiate with Catalonia the right to self-determination, nobody has the right afterwards to deny us the right to unilateralism, obviously. “

“After trying everything, with the right and the left, with whom we support them and with those who do not, if finally the answer continues to be no, and the only alternative project to independence is the one we are having, four years of repression, of our rights and our resources, we have all the political, moral and justice rights to exercise unilateralism when we are in the conditions to exercise it, “he insisted.

Declares October 4

This Sunday is one of his last acts of Puigdemont in Sardinia before leaving this Monday to Brussels to continue his work as an MEP.

The independence leader was arrested on Thursday at Alghero airport by an order of the Supreme Court, although he was released from the Bancali prison in the city of Sassari on Friday, when the Court of Appeal decided that it was not going to impose any precautionary measures on him. type or movement restrictions.

Puigdemont will return to the island on October 4 to appear at the hearing in which they will analyze whether the conditions for his delivery to Spain are met, although Italian sources close to the case have explained that if he were not physically present in Italian territory, the court it will establish “no place to proceed” and will end the judicial procedure.

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