• Catalonia Aragonès plants Sánchez and Macron before the anthems and warns them: "The 'procés' has not finished"

  • Demonstration The independence movement exhibits its division and throws Junqueras out of the protest for the Spanish-French summit shouting "traitor"

The Government has granted the highest importance to the Spanish-French

summit that

Barcelona

has hosted

and in which Spain and France have sealed a

Treaty of Friendship

to which both countries have qualified as historic.

But in the midst of this milestone in bilateral relations, the pro-independence demonstration against the summit, from which the ERC leader Oriol Junqueras has been expelled, and the protest by Pere Aragonès, who left before the national anthems were played, have placed stones on the path.

In La Moncloa these facts are less important.

Pedro Sánchez, asking about it, has drawn a comparison between the demonstration this Thursday and the one that will be held this Saturday in Madrid, sponsored by the right, against his government.

The President of the Government has defended that the

Constitution

recognizes the right to peaceful demonstration "in defense of some ideals, including those that go against the Constitution" and, immediately afterwards, he recalled that another will be held in Madrid "where the opposite is going to be claimed. We have to respect that."

With this comparison that the head of the Executive has drawn, what he has attempted is to draw two political extremes, both protesting against him, his management and his Government, claiming the space of centrality, which he considers to be the one he occupies and also the majority of Spanish people.

"I think that between what has happened today Thursday and what is going to happen in Madrid on Saturday is where the vast majority of this country is, both in Catalonia and in Spain, which is in defense of a Spain united in its diversity. and that is what the 1978 Constitution recognizes in my opinion".

Sánchez was determined that nothing mar the historic appointment with Emmanuel Macron.

Hence, efforts have been made to minimize the importance of both the demonstration and the plant led by Pere Aragonès.

"I appreciate his presence", has been the assessment.

And, at this point, again Sánchez has used a comparison to support his argument.

"In other summits we have not even counted on the regional president when it comes to receiving the leaders."

Sánchez alludes to the celebration of the summit with

Germany

in La Coruña, which was not attended by

Alfonso Rueda

, the Galician president, a circumstance that greatly annoyed La Moncloa and which they have not forgotten.

"I would have liked him to have stayed for the entire ceremony, but I am grateful that, unlike other regional presidents, he was there", he reflected on the circumstance that Aragonés left the summit undercover, getting into his car, which was waiting for him near where he had greeted Macron, while he and Sánchez, together with, for example, the mayoress of Barcelona, ​​Ada Colau, went to listen to the national anthems.

The Government does not want the staging of the pro-independence leaders -Aragonès told him during a brief conversation with Sánchez that the

process

"is not over"- truncate or overshadow his commitment to the "reunion agenda", something that was wanted make visible with the choice of Barcelona as the venue for this historic summit with France.

The head of the Executive wanted to "break a spear" in favor of Barcelona and its decisions, stating that the meeting held this Thursday has a lot to do with coexistence and harmony and responds to the complaints that "rightly" has had the city for many years that the State had not committed to it either in terms of resources, international visibility or recognition of its institutions.

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