Gerard Melgar Barcelona
Barcelona
Updated Monday, April 8, 2024-13:56
Junts Carles Puigdemont's lists for the 12-M elections outline the future of Junts
Elections The party promoting the Parliament's initiative to declare independence again does not obtain endorsements for 12-M
Carles Puigdemont
has asked
TV3
and
Catalunya Ràdio
to hold their
electoral debate
in
Perpignan
(
France
). The former president of the Generalitat and head of the
Junts
list for the regional elections of
May 12
, against whom a
national arrest warrant
weighs , claims to participate "on equal terms with the rest of the candidates, without technical obstacles that prevent or make full expression difficult."
This is what the party argues in a letter addressed to the directors of public television and radio,
Sigfrid Gras
and
Jordi Borda
.
Albert Batet
, leader of
JxCat
in the Parliament in this last term and campaign director of the
Junts+ Puigdemont per Catalunya
candidacy , relies on another piece of information to justify that the debate is organized in the south of France, where the former
president
has resided for some time. two weeks to participate in person at party events a few kilometers from the border. "TV3 and Catalunya Ràdio are a national television and radio station that includes
Northern Catalonia
in their scope of coverage and have recently reopened their delegation," says Batet,
number five
of the
neoconvergents
on the list for Barcelona.
Last Friday, the president of the Generalitat and
Esquerra Republicana
candidate for re-election,
Pere Aragonès
, challenged the Junts candidates and the
PSC
's first secretary,
Salvador Illa
, to confront their ideas in a debate televised abroad.