Silvia Orriols, willing to reach agreements with Junts, but Turull rules it out: "It's anti-Catalonia"

The mayor of Ripoll, Sílvia Orriols, was elated this Wednesday after Junts would distance herself from the motion of censure to remove her from office. For his part, the general secretary of the Junta, Jordi Turull, has gone against her and has justified the decision. On the microphones of RAC1, Silvia Orriols has highlighted the "trembling of the legs" and has shown herself "open to agreements" with opposition forces, but has made clear her distrust and has said that it is contagious to the absolute majority for the municipal elections of 2027, to which she has guaranteed that it has been guaranteed that. In any case, she has been predisposed to weave the understanding outside of Ripoll with Junts and other "Catalanist formations", despite the harsh criticism she has made of them. A scenario of understanding and breaking the isolation imposed on Aliança Catalana to which Turull has closed the door to the same station. When asked if he rules out making a pact with Aliança Catalana, he was blunt: "I do, I do not want to use hate speeches [...]. We do not want to know anything about it and we want to fight it," he said. And he did not stop there: "Catalonia needs immigration, we do not feel close to it, it is the most anti-to-what Catalonia represents and has been," he concluded.

Turull has criticized the "radical speech" of Aliança Catalana, which contradicts the "Catalonia one people." In any case, Orriols has pointed to the national leadership of Carles Puigdemont's party as the only party responsible for the motion failing at the last minute, and has said that "if it had been up to the local section, the motion would have been made." In fact, he recalled the "tibantor" and the bad relations it has with the municipal group of Junts and with the rest of the opposition. On the Participation of Puigdemont and the national leadership in general, Turull has stressed that the former president "was in favour" of what "all the members" of the executive have decided "thinking of the people of Ripollet", "what is best in the medium term" and to avoid "the boomerang effect". "It would end up having the opposite effect", he said.

Turull avoids calling the Catalan Alliance far-right

The councillor has been very harsh with the "shit, fart and ass speech" that he has attributed to Sílvia Orriols, for its simplistic nature and "hatred", but he has preferred to avoid calling the party far-right: "It is a party that stirs up hatred, from there, the thing about labels...". "You can stir up hatred from the far right or from the far left. Hatred ends up bringing devastating consequences in the medium or long term," he concluded. When asked if he feels closer to the CUP or to Aliança, he avoided commenting: "Juntos feels closer to Junts," he said. Turull believes that parties like Aliança are growing "because there are many situations of people who suffer, who are disoriented" and who can think that "at least these people say it clearly", despite the reality of the "hate" policies, although he stressed that we must talk about housing, immigration and occupations, but with "solutions" and not speaking "from the 'es. Now, the position of Junts was criticized by the president of the Generalitat and leader of the PSC, Salvador Illa, who claimed "European values" in the face of "extremism" and, from Brussels, stated: "There is no average or excuses that are valid. Either you are with human values or racism."

For her part, Sílvia Orriols has regretted the "demonization" that she says she suffers and has distanced herself from the will of her number two, Jordi Aragonès, that in the ARA he said that it was opening to share a European group with Vox or even attend summits like the ones he organised in Madrid. "They certainly wouldn't have seen me. If there are representatives from Spain and France, they won't see me," he said. The leader of ERC in Congress, Gabriel Rufián, has also reacted to Junts' decision in statements to the media: "Zero surprises, whoever knows Junts knows that it has no principles without interests and that it changes them at a given moment, and today none of these interests is anti-fascism," he said.

The survey and other controversies

Turull has defended himself from the fact that negotiations were cut off at the last minute – there was even a motion document developed by the parties– saying that the “local dynamics” must be “understood”. “We speak with everyone. Dialogue with all political forces must be maintained, another thing is whether something solid can come out of it”, he added, and explained that they had been “assessing all the pros and cons” and that “Junts has not faltered” or “backed down”. He also spoke about the survey that Junts commissioned from Ripoll on the motion of censure, which was advanced Digital Nation, and he has acknowledged its existence, although he has said that "it has not been the decisive element", although "the figure was very clear" against the motion, although he has qualified that it was not as much as the 85 percent that the interviewer told him.