Deputy Secretary General and spokeswoman for Esquerra asserts that the new government has set itself “four essential revolutions: Social, Feminist, Green and Democratic”

“Catalonia will once again have an Esquerra Republicana President. We will once again be able to lead the country and we will materialize a New Republican Generalitat government,” said Esquerra’s Deputy Secretary General and spokeswoman Marta Vilalta in her opening speech at the extraordinary meeting of the party’s National Council, which ratified the preliminary agreement to appoint Pere Aragonès.

Ms Vilalta, who lamented the long weeks of negotiations, stressed that the agreement includes “clear priorities” that Esquerra has defended from the beginning: social relief, recovery and transformation of the country and progress towards the Catalan Republic. She also made it clear that there is to be no “tutelage in the institutions, no controls or subordination” regarding all those priorities, and that the agreement safeguards the prior accord between Esquerra Republicana and CUP, the third party making up the pro-independence parliamentary majority.

“We are not here to rule or manage. We are here to transform” said Ms Vilalta defining the new era for Catalonia’s Generalitat administration, with Pere Aragonès at the helm to begin a new cycle of progressive leadership emphasising social justice and independence.

Building the new republican Generalitat involves shaking up some of the framework and pillars established in the last 40 years, said Ms Vilalta: “We represent a new generation eager to transform and change the inertia.” The new republican government has set itself the goals of “four essential revolutions: Social, Feminist, Green and Democratic,” said the Deputy Secretary General and spokeswoman.

Finally, Ms Vilalta addressed the party’s gratitude and recognition for the ministers in the last government who led at one of the “most difficult times and who have had to manage a pandemic and the many crises that have come of it.”