Junts per Catalunya ends the last hours of the electoral campaign for the 2023 general elections with a call for mobilization. The party held an act this Friday morning in Santa Coloma de Gramenet to read the manifesto ‘Compromís amb Catalunya‘, (Commitment towards Catalonia) in which they also celebrated October 1st and attacked the elections Hispanisation, as they are presented as a choice between the PSOE and the PP. From the linguistic immersion perspective, Junts’ members stated that abstention “is not useful to defend Catalonia, nor its citizens, nor its families, nor its associations, nor its institutions, nor its companies”. “Abstention does not bring us closer to independence”, they reiterate in the manifesto.
Despite assuring that they respect the right to abstention, they add that it will only cause for “pro-independence MPs’ seats to be replaced by those who support Catalonia’s repression” and that, additionally, it drives “the power to change things” away. “It is a one-day decision, the consequences of which we may suffer for years,” they warned. From the party’s point of view, voting also “sends a message of support to exiles and thoughts to those who left without seeing the dream fulfilled”. Therefore, they argue that “after everything Catalonia has endured over the centuries, its existence is a miracle that we must preserve, for our parents, grandparents, and our children”. The reading was given by Pilar Calvo, number two of Junts’ Barcelona candidacy to the Congress of Deputies.
