Oriol Junqueras suggests that Aliança is an "instrument" of the Spanish secret services

BarcelonaThe president of Esquerra Republicana, Oriol Junqueras, suggested this Sunday in a speech in Espluga de Francolí, reported by Europa Press, that the far-right pro-independence party Aliança Catalana is an "invention" of the Spanish secret services. He also made this assertion on the La Sexta television program. Saved which will be broadcast tonight about the Spanish legislature. "Aliança has nothing to do with independence, and if the State and the secret services ever had to design a tool to weaken the independence movement, this instrument would look very much like Aliança," he declared, adding that it is a phenomenon intended to "weaken" Junts per Catalunya.

In Espluga de Francolí, he also criticized Aliança supporters who act as "trolls" on social media and, he said, as "fifth columnists." "If they can afford to mock those who were imprisoned or those who were in exile, it's because they know they will never risk going to prison or exile because they will never do anything," he asserted. "They are protected by the Spanish secret services and the judges who persecute us," Junqueras insisted, reproaching them for, in his opinion, being brave in the face of the weak and cowardly in the face of the powerful. The Secretary General of the Republicans, Elisenda Alamany, criticized, within the framework of the 50th anniversary of Franco's death, that "Francoism still survives, and so does the extreme right." According to her, she lives "wrapped in the Spanish flag but also in the Catalan one" and, in her opinion, feeds on the frustration of the working class. "Thus, we have our people, the working class, the middle class of our country, trapped in a harsh and insurmountable reality. Too rich for the institutions to help them and too poor to get ahead on their own," she added.

Reaction by Silvia Orriols

Junqueras's words provoked an angry response from AC leader Silvia Orriols on X. "You speak Spanish so well, Junqueras, aren't you the one from the CNI?" she asked him. "Perhaps that's why you surrendered to the Spanish courts so quickly, and perhaps that's why you were pardoned?" she added. "Fraud," the far-right leader concluded.

Esquerra spokesperson Isaac Albert also responded to X. "From the comfort of your sofa at home, pointing the finger at the weak and protecting the strong, and playing into the hands of those who want to exterminate us as a people," he stated.