Puigneró, in the eye of the storm for speaking in Spanish at the Sant Cugat plenary session

Barcelona"Since this plenary session will be broadcast online and can be seen by everyone around the world, and surely many Venezuelans in South America, I will say it in Spanish: From Juntos we celebrate the fall of Mr. Maduro..." Jordi Puigneró, deputy mayor of Sant Cugat del Vallès and former vice president of the Catalan government, justified his switch to Catalan last Friday during the January plenary session. Since then, Puigneró has faced a barrage of criticism on social media for refusing to present his arguments in Catalan. This Tuesday, the Catalan Minister of Language Policy, Francesc Xavier Vila, seized on the situation, pointing out the double standards of the Junts party: "When push comes to shove, the standards they apply to themselves are more lenient than those they demand of others."

Vila was responding to a tweet from the president of the Junts parliamentary group, Mònica Sales, in which she criticized the president of the Generalitat, Salvador Illa, for having given a speech primarily in Spanish on October 20th at an event organized by the Prisa group in Barcelona. The regional minister was the latest to join the criticism, which from the outset caught the attention of some pro-independence parties. For example, the CUP:In Spanish so that not everyone understands"It's not the PP or Vox, it's Jordi Puigneró from Junts speaking in Spanish so that everyone watching the Sant Cugat plenary session from Venezuela (?) knows that Junts celebrates Donald Trump's actions," the anti-capitalists quipped from their municipal group's account in Sant Cugat.

For its part, Aliança Catalana is not ruling out any possibility of highlighting the contradictions of Junts, with whom it is vying for a significant portion of the electorate in the upcoming municipal elections. "At Aliança Catalana, we will not renounce either the language or the values ​​of our country. We are the only guarantee for their defense," they published in X. "The pro-independence movement has hit rock bottom," they concluded.