Pere Aragonès

rectifies and will finally attend the Conference of Regional Presidents to be held next Sunday in La Palma.

The president of the Generalitat alleges that he will be present in an "exceptional" manner because the crisis arising from the Russian invasion of Ukraine and its consequences for Spain and its different regions will be addressed at the summit.

"In exceptional situations, exceptional participation", justified the ERC leader, who thus renounces, albeit punctually, his demand to maintain an exclusively bilateral relationship with the Government, either through the negotiating table on the "Catalan conflict", either through the State-Generalitat bilateral commission.

This movement by Aragonès also responds to the urgencies of the head of the Catalan Executive to disassociate himself from Carles Puigdemont's foreign policy, which involved close contacts with Putin's Russia to seek his support for the separatist process, which is about to lead to a investigation in the European Parliament to clarify these links and determine if they were part of the Kremlin's strategy to destabilize the EU states.

On Wednesday, during the control session in Parliament, Aragonès was already surrounded by the opposition, which demanded that he condemn the maneuvers of Puigdemont and his entourage to seek the favor of the Russian Government, something that the

president

refused to do considering that the European Parliament's investigation has not yet concluded.

Even so, the head of the Catalan Executive tried to distance himself from the legacy of his predecessor in office.

«I am responsible for the actions of this Government.

We are very clear about who our allies are.

As a result of the Russian invasion, we have taken a clear position in favor of Ukraine's independence, its right to continue to exist as a people," he said.

With his presence at the conference of presidents he will try to underpin this position and continue erasing the links between Catalan separatism and Putin.

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