Silvia Orriols will attend the Diada demonstration in Barcelona, despite criticism from the ANC.
The Aliança leader has never attended the march since she became mayor of Ripoll.
BarcelonaSilvia Orriols will be attending the Catalan National Day demonstration in Barcelona. The leader of the Catalan Alliance had not attended since becoming mayor of Ripoll and subsequently being elected to the Parliament. However, this year she decided to visit the Catalan capital, according to sources from the party to ARA, although both the ANC and Òmnium, the main organizers of the mobilization, have distanced themselves from the party due to its xenophobic stances.
"We are convinced that the Catalan National Day violates human rights and that this goes against the democratic morality we must follow," stated the president of the Catalan Assembly, Lluís Llach, during the presentation of the events at the Plan de Palau in July. Orriols was quick to react and announced that she now had a reason to be present at the Catalan National Day celebrations in Barcelona. "I was too lazy to come... but now I will. Even if it's just to call you mediocre and sectarian to your face," he said on his X account. The warning has become a reality, although Llach, in an interview in the ARA, reiterated his words, concluding by stating that Orriols can "perfectly" attend the demonstration, although "she won't be welcome" by everyone.
Since becoming mayor two years ago, Orriols had limited herself to celebrating the Diada in Ripoll, organizing various events in the morning in front of the monastery, but without traveling to Barcelona in the afternoon. This year, the mayor and deputy will once again hold a speech at noon in Ripoll after laying the traditional floral offering at the tomb of Count Guifré el Pilós. with a gloss by Toni Albà, and then will go down to the Catalan capital.
Aliança sources have explained to ARA that "a broad representation of the party, led by Sílvia Orriols," will be at the Barcelona demonstration. The Aliança leader will also be with the party's main leaders at the floral offering at the Fossar de les Moreres this Wednesday afternoon, as she did last year. At that time, around 100 members of the pro-independence left were present. They broke into the Fossar for denouncing the presence of the far right in the most emblematic space of the independence movement. However, the Mossos d'Esquadra (Catalan police) separated the two groups to avoid a clash between them. This year, with the aim of gathering the maximum number of supporters and activists of the party, Aliança has organized four buses from different parts of the country to accompany Orriols to the Fossar offering, which will take place at 7:00 p.m.
