One afternoon in March 1955, Jordi Pujol, then a recent graduate in medicine, bud put a hand against a tree mondo street in Barcelona and Mallorca, with the other fingers grabbed his girlfriend. “Martha, the first step is Catalonia», said looking into his eyes from below. The most important was said. Then he asked marriage. Almost 60 years later, Marta Ferrusola Lladós (Barcelona, 28 June 1935), the girl who had sworn never to marry a man short, doctor, lives suffocated by lies. We now know that the first was not Catalonia but fill the saddlebags, the ‘butxaca’. And she, the ‘Martona’ as her friends call her, was not the only bedmate that often wrinkled and who gave seven children and he held for 23 and a half years as president of the Generalitat man.
As usual in this country, has not been the desire for justice, but the purest revenge that has uncovered the plot. As happened with the couple’s firstborn, was one of the lovers Pujol, José María B., who threw the first thread and recounted the path followed by the fortunes of the family hidden in tax havens. “And she was not the only” entrusts a close collaborator of Pujol during their years in office. “He had several affections. One, in the vicinity of the Presidency, was a very special relationship. And I’m not talking about Carme Alcoriza, his chief of staff, which was carrying his orders to the councilors and everyone said she was involved with Pujol when it was not so. Marriage to Martha Ferrusola opponent several times “, says the policy.
Marta, a woman of strong character used to always get their way, caught on each of these occasions the bull by the horns. When the buzz of infidelity began to roll on the Paseo de Gracia, she asked the interviewing in a related environment and being asked by the couple. Jovial, denied everything. “That is nonsense, our marriage is going great. Catalonia progresses and we will always be together, “cried. And it’s true. One need only remember the pictures of this summer, with the united in adversity and overwhelmed by the scandal and microphones in the family house of Queralbs partner. “Here I am not the president, I am the husband of Martha,” said Pujol in happier times.
For the beatification of Escrivá
But who is Marta Ferrusola Lladós, the woman who was ‘first lady’ of Catalonia for about a quarter of a century and it is now suspected that he used that position to profit? The ‘Martona’ is the daughter of Carme Lladós Pascual (his grandmother, Catalonia emigrant, was born in the town of Zaragoza Daroca) and Josep Ferrusola, a tailor who opened trade at the Eixample of Barcelona, one of those cloths shops and tissues in which postwar dressmakers were supplied. He has two brothers, Joseph and Carme, and studied at the College of the Conception Mothers. It was named Marta in memory of her aunt, who died in the flu epidemic of 1919.
All the family
always bite. “Wherever there was an insider or a business sector in which the children were presented by Jordi Pujol. She has been the one that has been concerned with the formation, research and professional output. Y has done thoroughly. Some of them have accompanied him on trade missions and official travel. was obvious. But although the father did not hide his discomfort, the mother encouraged. Were there people who resigned not to be involved in these issues, “now supports a former collaborator of Pujol .
‘aixo is a donut’. ‘This is a woman’ was the cry that regaled the ears of Ferrusola CiU supporters after election victories.
Word explosive. In 2001 Ferrusola brown saying in a colloquium that immigrants living in Catalunya try to “constantly impose” their customs and religion lio. “This impositions is a very strong thing, because, maybe, in 10 years will not serve the Romanesque churches and mosques serve.” Jordi Pujol later endorsed it by saying that “most” brown Ferrusola In 2001 a colloquium to say that immigrants living in Catalunya try to “constantly impose” their customs and religion lio. “This impositions is a very strong thing, because, maybe, in 10 years will not serve the Romanesque churches and mosques serve.” Jordi Pujol later endorsed it by saying that “most” thought as his wife. thought as his wife
Applied sportsman always thin and very religious, their links with Opus Dei are well known. attended in 1992 in Rome for the beatification of Josemaria Escriva de Balaguer, surrounded by ministers PP. After finishing his high school studies he taught gymnastics and helped behind the counter in the family trade. “His father, whom she called dad, he was a straight and very austere man. Marta has a rule that applied to his own life. Oleguer, the youngest son of Pujol, inherited the clothing and shoes of all his older brothers, “recalls Maribel Juan, author of a biography of Ferrusola entitled ‘A l’ombra power’ (In the shadow of power).
The Most
In 1951, only 16, met Jordi Pujol, who agreed at meetings of the Confraternity of Our Lady of Montserrat Virtèlia, marking a school founded Catalan character after the Civil War and continued studies where, among others, Federico Mayor Zaragoza, the Maragall, Miquel Roca or Félix Millet brothers (who sacked another Catalan emblem like Palau). Jordi Pujol, who came to greater colleague asked him walk down the aisle after little more than a year of dating. They did, of course, in the iconic Benedictine Abbey of Montserrat on 4 June 1956 officiated lluma Pere, spiritual father of Pujol and chaplain of the guild, and Aureli Maria Escarré, prior of the monastery. They say that day Pujol told his guests that, someday, Catalonia would be above even his marriage. That couple was shining and the bud of the future embryo Catalan nationalism ‘trionfant’ selected members ‘fattening’. “Ours is a ‘ménage à trois’: him, and Catalonia”, has joked on occasion this woman who hates the color green and that more than half of his fellow citizens to put off a donkey
“She is blunt, more independent and independence of all. It is what holds the reins of marriage, family and, as some suggest, even Corvengencia. Pujol opinion always asked, “underscores Maribel Juan. Another example, Marta Ferrusola is driving the family car. Pujol, never guide.
Used in pharmaceutical laboratories Fides Cuatrecasas, acquired by the father of Pujol, Jordi turns in politics. She is supposed to touch cornet, form an extended family. “Procreation is a fact, it is a continuation of God’s creation. (…) I belong to a generation in which these two feelings, Catholic and patriotic, have gone together. To that families are what really should have children, “said Ferrusola in his younger years.
” I’ll be by your side “
Jordi (1958) and Marta (1959), his firstborn, and were in the world when Pujol writes the text ‘We present the general Franco’s Nationalists and planting lampoons the Palau de la Música during the centenary of the poet Joan Maragall. Receive a tip that will for him and urging you to flee. Hover Ferrusola figure. “Now is the time to stay. When we got married told me that Catalonia could walk past us. Now is the time. I’ll be by your side at all, but now is when we have to give the C’s “that have claimed. It fell seven years in prison. He claimed to have been tortured and served two and a half years in prison in Torrero (Zaragoza). Marta took over the house. A force. “It is what it has always done. She is the B side of Pujol. Of good family, marries a man who abuses, which tends to humiliate her. How do you understand if this ‘Catalonia will be first’? She has had to swallow all the lovers and all. Marta has protected their territory who are their children. Now it has been that Pujol has forced him to take the step and take responsibility to save the family. Is a Catalan journalist explains how Salvador Sostres- to atone for having devastated and humiliated for so many years. “
life was sought from a young age. Until 1975 he was a gym teacher and a florist for 89rode Could be an explanation. The truth is that life Ferrusola Marta looked very young. Until 1975, such as gym teacher. In 1989 he set up a flower shop with his friend Merce Vila, with the name of Jepo to give way to the controversial company Hidroplant (involved in the fiasco of the Camp Nou), which were shareholders their children Martha and Jordi with Water Barcelona (Agbar) and families and Aguilá Raventos Negra. In those years Ferrusola defended tooth and nail her right to bid (and win) public tender called by the Catalan institutions. “‘Our children have the right to earn a living. We’ve given everything for Catalonia. It’s time for Catalonia return us something ‘were phrases that Marta pronounced in the years in which Pujol occupied the Palau de la Generalitat “aired a stooge of expresident.
This” strong and impulsive character “that leads him to send to hell a reporter that he puts the mic in the car or skydiving 59 years, the air “bossy” that presides over all its acts, has led to a studied withdrawal. The Pujol are in free fall.
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