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The great expectation that aroused, last week in Barcelona, the visit of former president of the United States Barack Obama reached the Palau de la Generalitat. President Pere Aragonès tried, unsuccessfully, to meet with the former US president during his stay in the city to attend the first of Bruce Springsteen's two concerts at the Olympic Stadium.

This was admitted this afternoon by the Government spokeswoman, Patrícia Plaja, after the weekly meeting of the Catalan Executive. "We would have liked that meeting to have taken place, but the contacts finally did not bear fruit," he explained.

After remarking that Obama's visit was private, Plaja has detailed that the Generalitat was made available to the consulate and the US embassy in Spain, "for what they might need", from the moment it was known that the former leader of the Democratic Party would travel to Catalonia on the occasion of the start of the European tour of the legendary musician and the E Street Band.

"The effort was made to see if, although it was not an institutional trip, this meeting could take place," the communicator acknowledged. Subsequently, sources of the Generalitat have tried to qualify the version of their spokesman and have assured that Aragonès did not expressly ask to have a meeting with Obama as it is a private visit to Barcelona.

Together with his wife, Michelle Obama, the tenant of the White House between 2009 and 2017 spent three days in the Catalan capital in which he displayed an intense agenda of leisure and cultural activities. The couple was accompanied by film director Steven Spielberg and his wife, actress Kate Capshaw. Among other visits, the four went to the monastery of Montserrat on Saturday.

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  • Barcelona
  • Generalitat of Catalonia
  • Pere Aragonès
  • Bruce Springsteen
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