Salvador Illa takes advantage of the opportunity that Pedro Sánchez offers him

BarcelonaPedro Sánchez chose Barcelona to highlight that there is an international left-wing front that can confront the reactionary wave led by Donald Trump. The Spanish president was the protagonist of the three summits that were held almost in parallel in the Catalan capital, but Sánchez's choice has allowed his main ally in the State, Salvador Illa, to adopt a central role as host. It is not easy for a regional president to be received by a head of state, and Illa has not missed the opportunity that Sánchez has given him to exchange words with some of the presidents who have visited the Catalan capital.

He did so this Friday with the president of Brazil, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, whom he accompanied to visit the Barcelona Supercomputing Center after the summit with Sánchez at the Palau de Pedralbes. At this meeting, Illa gave several gifts to the Brazilian president: a figure of a Gaudí dragon, a copy of the book Theory of Legal Security, by the Brazilian constitutional jurist Humberto Ávila and published by the Chair of Legal Security of the University of Girona, and also another book, Proof Without Conviction, by Dr. Jordi Ferrer-Beltrán, director of the aforementioned chair.

, by Josep Lluís Martín and Sylvia Roig Abelenda. Orsi presented him with the Transgressors: Women from Both Sides of the Ocean, by Josep Lluís Martín and Sylvia Roig Abelenda. Orsi presented him with the Poetic Anthology by the Uruguayan poet Mario Benedetti with a prologue and selection by Joan Manuel Serrat, and also the vinyl record of The South Also Exists, by Serrat, which sets poems by Benedetti to music.

The role of host has led the president of the Generalitat to participate in the final plenary of the Global Progressive Mobilisation, the meeting of more than a hundred socialist parties and organizations from all over the world. "Seny is a way of leading and coexisting. Serving and not dominating. Convincing and not imposing. Seny is to unite, not divide", he stated before the five thousand people who listened to him in a speech predominantly in Catalan.

The German Vice-Chancellor, Lars Klingbeil, representatives of organizations such as the International Tax Observatory, and socialist leaders from countries like Chile or Portugal, have also shared moments with Illa. Government sources highlight that the socialist summits over the weekend have shown that both Catalonia and its capital can represent "progressivism, the fight against the far-right, and the defense of multilateralism and peace".