Junts will accompany Jordi Pujol to the National Court to "show him support"

MadridJunts per Catalunya will accompany Jordi Pujol to San Fernando de Henares to "show him support". Next Monday, the former president of the Generalitat must go in person to the National Court so that a forensic doctor can examine him and the tribunal that is judging his family and nine businessmen can determine whether or not to keep him on the defendants' bench. If the decision is not to exempt him, he will subsequently have to testify as a defendant. Despite this, the forensic doctors said in November that "he is not in physical or cognitive condition" to be tried.

The Junts delegation will be led by Toni Castellà and Josep Rius –vice-presidents of the party–, Albert Batet –deputy to the presidency–, and Salvador Vergés –parliamentary spokesperson–. Also present will be Members of Congress Pilar Calvo, Isidre Gavín, Josep Maria Cervera, Marta Madrenas, Josep Pagès, and Senators Eduard Pujol, Teresa Pallarès, Francesc Ten, and Joan Bagué. In contrast, the Junts leader in Madrid, Míriam Nogueras, will not be there.

After the news broke, the current leader of Junts, Carles Puigdemont, harshly criticized the National Court's decision: "They couldn't be more miserable," he denounced. He lamented that the National Court seeks "ridicule" and a photo to "humiliate not only a person, but above all what they represent," and made it clear that, if he were not in Waterloo, he would have gladly accompanied Pujol to Madrid. And Albert Batet presented the court's decision as an "inadmissible and unacceptable act of humiliation."

For his part, the President of the Generalitat, Salvador Illa, called for "common sense" and recalled a call he received last week from Pujol: he explained that he was very "excited" to attend the inauguration of the Pau Casals Year in El Vendrell, but that he was "weak" and did not feel "up to it" to go. "In common sense, we always find the basis for good justice," he concluded.