SCC called for their first anniversary to mobilize the vote against … – euronews

Reuters, 23/04 21:59 CET

Final Act under the slogan” The future is in your hands “was organized in the Main Theater of Barcelona, ​​on the occasion of the celebration of the first year of the contrary to the Civil Society Catalan independence platform. EFE

Barcelona, ​​April 23 ( EFE ) .- Civil Catalan Society has today called, in celebration of its first anniversary, to mobilize the vote against independence in the coming municipal and regional elections, before which has denounced the lack of “neutrality” of institutions “service” of sovereignism.

In a ceremony before about 500 people at the Theatre Principal de Barcelona, ​​ SCC has celebrated its first year of life, which precisely coincides with the Day of Sant Jordi in Catalonia.

Among the attendees included political representatives Enric Millo, Alberto Fernández Díaz, Javier Sánchez Mulleras and Fernando Costa ( PPC ); Joan Rangel, Carles Martí and Meritxell Batet ( PSC ); Carina Mejias, Carmen Rivera and Jordi Cañas (Ciutadans); and Ramon de Veciana, Montse Tonda and Teresa Giménez Barbat (UPyD).

Under the slogan “The future in your hands” with a symbol of a hand inserting a ballot with the Spanish flag and Catalan have involved the main leaders of the organization, including the president of SCC , Josep Ramon Bosch, who has urged the “sensible Catalan” a “step forward” for that “were heard in the streets, the media and, especially in the polls.”

“The Catalans are required to participate in social and political life in electoral appointments are close in municipal and autonomic, whether they are, “said the leader.

You have referenced addition to the manifesto of the entity for the municipal, for which notes that it is” essential “that the elections are conducted with “respect for the guarantee of democratic order”, including the “neutrality” of institutions, conditions that “today is not fully given in Catalonia”.

SCC and considers that the display of symbols in public buildings secessionist “coerces and influences” the population, and therefore has announced the creation of a Democratic Quality Observatory to “denounce dysfunctions in institutions and public media.”

The company has expressed his “pride” in the first year of life, despite the “insults” received, as lamented the vice president, Joaquim Coll, who stressed however that “whenever more citizens dare to speak out and the national-populist unanimity that nearly imposed in 2014 by coercion and blackmail has made water everywhere. “

” Democracy is not built to punch clear or survey, “said Coll, who recalled that” silent majority does not have “so that” no secessionist plural majority, is the political color it must be expressed in the polls. “

The call to promote a “campaign of participation” in the next elections was an act that was also issued videos on various activities of the organization in this year, as demonstrations in Plaza Catalunya in Barcelona constant or in Tarragona, or the granting of European Citizen Award.

“We must stand up and vote, and convince our friends, colleagues and family, because our only weapon to defend our freedom is to vote, vote and vote “said the second Vice President Jose Rosiñol, which has ironically the” predictability “of the Catalan National Assembly, according to which, he said,” today Catalonia would no longer be part of Spain “.

Indeed, referring to the demonstration that the sovereigntist organization has called for September 11 in Barcelona, ​​has warned that “all essentialist nationalism have a habit of going through our streets” and says that “some entered by Diagonal (Franco’s troops) and others seek to enter the Meridiana “.

Also of irony has thrown the third vice president, Susana Beltrán, to discuss the metaphor used by the president Artur Mas occasion of this Sant Jordi, who has appealed to the “heroic” to deal with “dragons” who do not respect Catalonia.

“I would propose as a dragon of Catalonia Artur Mas 2015,” said Beltran, who has called the “princesses, knights and sant Jordis” Catalans go to the polls, which are the “weapons” to “throw” the sovereigntist parties. “We do not want them!” He said.

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