Alejandro Blanco negotiated with Artur Mas the joint candidacy of Catalonia and Aragon for the 2030 Winter Olympics

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The echoes of the failure of the

continue .

If during these days there have been accusations and arguments between the main protagonists of the Spanish attempt to host the event, now it is the president of

,

, who is in the eye of the hurricane.

According to information published by '

', Blanco secretly negotiated the joint candidacy of both Autonomous Communities with the former president of the Generalitat

and with a high-ranking official from the governments of

who is charged in several cases of corruption.

In addition, at the meeting, held in November 2019, the president of the COE requested

that were going to be used to make "opaque" contracts, as the newspaper assures, which has had access to the report of the

in the summary of the Voloh case, in which the diversion of funds to the independence movement is being investigated.

The

would have taken place only a few weeks after the series of protests that paralyzed Catalonia after the condemnation of the protagonists of the referendum and the proclamation of the

.

Three days ago,

, president of the Community of Aragón, assuring that he had decided to break the agreement.

"The COE sent a letter to the IOC for a joint Games between Catalonia and Aragon before the Tokyo Games. They were accompanied by three letters, from the President of the Government,

; from the President of the Generalitat,

, and from the President of the Community of Aragon,

", explained Blanco.

"There was an agreement, but then President Lambán decided to break it. Let each one assume his responsibilities," he added.

"Lambán sent me -continued the leader- a letter in which he said he disagreed with the distribution that the technical commission had agreed to. The snow proposal, the subject of discussion, was made by the Aragón technicians".

"Instead, when the politicians came in, everything broke down," he added.

Blanco, hurt, lamented how this adventure has ended because of what it meant.

"We didn't have the best possible technical project. We had to move the jumps, for example. But we had pillars. On the one hand, the regeneration of a territory, the Pyrenees. On the other, because

. That gave this candidacy a lot of strength. It intended to unite. It was not a political project, but one of civil society, businessmen, presidents of SMEs...", he explained, to conclude: "Our image before the IOC has been improvable. I hope we have learned".

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