Gerard Melgar Barcelona
Barcelona
Updated Tuesday, April 2, 2024-14:24
12-M Together+ Puigdemont per Catalunya, name of Carles Puigdemont's candidacy for the Catalan elections
Junts Carles Puigdemont presents its candidacy as the umpteenth 'country list' with which to annul ERC and "fight Spanish aggression against Catalonia for the scandalous benefit of Madrid"
The businesswoman
Anna Navarro
will be the
number two
of
Junts+ Puigdemont per Catalunya
, the candidacy led by the former president of the Generalitat
Carles Puigdemont
for the regional elections on
May 12
.
With the incorporation of a world leader in the new technologies sector, the
neoconvergents
seek to strengthen the economic profile of their electoral proposal. Born in
Olot
(Girona) in 1968, Navarro has developed most of her professional career in the
United States
over the last three decades , where she has held senior management positions at companies such as Cisco Systems, Xerox, VeriSign, VMware, NetApp or Procore Technologies. In addition, she has done consulting with
Yahoo
or
.
"I don't come to warm up the chair, but to fight for what we Catalans deserve," said the executive, who through a video stated that she knows what it means to "fight at the highest level" and "always with a lot of Catalanness." ".
In an interview given a year ago to the newspaper
Vilaweb
, Navarro expressed: "We Catalans come from the
Phoenicians
and we are very enterprising people who have always gone to all over the world. You see, I am in
California
and half of the streets are of Catalans".
"We Catalans, as we see both the French and the Spanish, and we have so many people from all over, it is easier for us to globalize," he explained in reference to Catalan companies with large tentacles outside of Spain, such as "
Fluidra
,
Grifols
and
Hipra
."
"There is no progress without freedom, but neither without commitment, without rigor and without determination. That is why a group of men and women, like
Anna Navarro
, are committing to the project that I lead to contribute, with their talent and experience, to lift the country and return it to the vanguard and the dynamism that these years of repression and resignation have caused us to lose," Puigdemont expressed in the announcement of his
number two
.
Criticisms of ERC
If we want to do things better, we must start with an ambitious, competent, self-conscious Government, loyal to the people, without limits, whether due to fear or laziness, and with the capacity to relate directly and as an equal with all the free nations of the world. world. "We must move from resignation to ambition." He has insisted on the line that he expressed a week ago in his speech at a pre-electoral event in Perpignan (France), where he already dedicated those criticisms to the Republican Left Executive
led
by
Pere Aragonès
.
In 2020, Navarro was named the world's most influential woman in technology by Analytics Insight
magazine
. Three years earlier she had published
Truly Global
, a successful book in which she defended the globalization of markets and expressed frontal opposition to the autarkic policies of the then president of the United States,
Donald Trump
.