The independence movement summons all its mayors to Girona on May 31 except Sílvia Orriols

GironaIn front of the current political context of disenchantment and decline of the independence movement, municipalism is joining forces to try to refloat the path of national sovereignty. The city councils of Girona, Manresa, and Vic, together with the Association of Municipalities for Independence (AMI), are calling on all elected officials from the country's local councils to participate in the first National Meeting of Elected Officials of Catalonia on May 31st in the Girona capital: a day of debate and reflection that aims to establish...

The letter will be sent to all city councils in Catalonia to invite any mayor, councilor, or councilwoman who feels challenged by the movement's sovereignty values. Now, on the political stage that until now had been occupied only by Junts, Esquerra and the CUP, a new player has burst onto the scene, the Catalan Alliance, which, from the outset, is excluded from the call: the far-right party openly declared pro-independence is not in principle expected to attend the Girona event: "We are clear that," said the president of the AMI, who adds, in reference to Silvia Orriols' repeated criticism of this association, calling it a chiringuito: "This party wants nothing to do with the AMI and neither do we with them."

Regarding the bases of the agreement, Lluc Salellas, mayor of Girona, the only demarcation capital with the pro-independence government, who wants to be the spearhead of the municipalist agreement, argues: "We want to promote a municipal agenda that includes solutions to the main problems and deficits of the city councils in order to offer a service of quality to the citizens and that now makes a clear defense of the strategy of our self-determination as the people." Along the same lines, the republican Marc Aloy, mayor of Manresa, says: "We live in a certain disorientation of the movement, so we must remember that the vast majority of elected officials in the municipalities are pro-independence and that, from this base, we can build many sovereignties, whether housing, food, energy or management of the migratory fact." Finally, the mayor of Vic, Albert Castells, of Junts, warns of the relevance of the current political moment: "We live in a historic moment of the 21st century, at a crossroads between preserving the nation or dissolving ourselves within the centralist Spanish state, so we must build a network in which all the municipalities, towns and cities work together to build together to build together to build."