Puigdemont abandons the presidency of Junts and leaves the way free for the Borràs-Turull tandem to lead the party

Carles Puigdemont will

abandon the presidency of Junts at the congress that the party will hold in June and will facilitate the total renewal of the leadership of the neo-convergent formation

focus on its fight against the Spanish Justice and in the direction of the Consell per la República, the para-governmental entity from which he aspires to orchestrate a new blow to the constitutional order when the independence movement is rearmed.

The departure of Puigdemont and that of the general secretary,

-who also announced his departure weeks ago-, will prevent the fratricidal war that was brewing within Junts from breaking out.

Laura Borràs

and

were willing to dispute control of the party in the June congress if Puigdemont continued to lead, but the fact that there are two vacancies to be filled will pave the way for a consensus solution by which the President of the Parliament becomes president of the Party to replace the fugitive and the pardoned relieves Sànchez, with whom he also shared prison after both were convicted of organizing 1-O.

This agreement would satisfy Turull because, in practice, she would have the organic domain of the formation and Borràs because she would find accommodation in the event that the ERC and the CUP force her dismissal as president of the Parliament when an oral trial is opened against her for the alleged case of corruption in which it is involved.

«Now it is necessary, in my opinion, that the party has a new president.

That he permanently participate in executive meetings, that he fully participates in the political decisions that need to be made.

That is why I will not present my candidacy", argued Puigdemont, who will participate in person at the congress in which his replacement will take place, since Junts has decided to move its celebration to the south of France - a territory that the independence movement catalogs as the Catalunya Nord - to to be able to count on the presence of its leader, who is still unable to set foot on Spanish soil without this implying his arrest to render accounts before the Justice.

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