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Updated Tuesday, April 2, 2024-14:24

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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

Google

.

"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

.