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Entre el dolor i l'esperança: Entrevista de Vicenç Villatoro
Des de la confessió sobre l'existència d'uns diners a Andorra que Jordi Pujol va fer pública l'any 2014 fins avui, han passat moltes coses a Catalunya, a Espanya, a Europa i al món. I s'han succeït també informacions, decisions judicials i opinions que afecten directament el mateix Jordi Pujol i la seva família. Durant aquest temps, Jordi Pujol –enretirat de la vida pública– ha anat reflexionant sobre aquests fets en silenci o compartint els seus pensaments amb molt poques persones. En aquesta entrevista, feta pel periodista i escriptor Vicenç Villatoro, Jordi Pujol respon sobre les grans qüestions de fons que travessen tot aquest període. Des del procés independentista català i la reacció de l'Estat fins al futur del seu llegat polític. I també sobre aquelles que l'afecten de manera més personal, des del sentiment de culpa i la petició de perdó fins a l'afirmació d'uns ideals i d'uns valors. I expressa la seva visió sobre el que caldria fer col·lectivament en un futur immediat.
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Published June 2, 2021
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Jordi Pujol
114 books3 followersJordi Pujol i Soley is a Catalan politician who was the leader of the party Convergència Democràtica de Catalunya (CDC) from 1974 to 2003, and President of the Generalitat de Catalunya from 1980 to 2003.
Pujol was born in Barcelona, studied at the German School of Barcelona and received a medical degree from the University of Barcelona. During his college years, he joined different activist groups that were seeking to rebuild the ideal Catalonia that the Spanish Civil War and Franco's dictatorship had undermined.
In 1974, he passed definitively to the political sphere on founding the political party called Convergència Democràtica de Catalunya (CDC) (Democratic Convergence of Catalonia in English), of which he was the first Secretary. The political party was not legalized until 1977, during the Spanish transition to democracy after Franco's death in November 1975.
From 1977 to 1980, Pujol was Minister without portfolio in the Provisional government of Catalonia, presided by Josep Tarradellas. In 1977 he led Pacte Democràtic per Catalunya, a coalition of Catalan parties that were trying to approve the Statute of Autonomy of Catalonia. In the Spanish general election of 1977 he was elected to the Spanish Congress of Deputies, representing Barcelona. Pujol was re-elected at the 1979 General Election but resigned from the parliament in 1980.
During the last decades of the Franco regime and his 23 years as President of the Generalitat de Catalunya, Jordi Pujol adhered to the majority establishment in Catalan nationalism, which, instead of seeking a fully independent republic, intended to work towards a federalized Spain that would, according to Pujol, recognize Catalonia "as a country, as a collective with its own personality and differences," and a "guarantee that her own identity be respected". However, with the conservative People's Party opposing the Catalan Statute of Autonomy, as well as the recognition for the language in the east of Aragon, Pujol has stated that "there is more aggression towards Catalonia than ever", and that Catalans can "no longer hope for anything from the Spanish state".
Pujol was born in Barcelona, studied at the German School of Barcelona and received a medical degree from the University of Barcelona. During his college years, he joined different activist groups that were seeking to rebuild the ideal Catalonia that the Spanish Civil War and Franco's dictatorship had undermined.
In 1974, he passed definitively to the political sphere on founding the political party called Convergència Democràtica de Catalunya (CDC) (Democratic Convergence of Catalonia in English), of which he was the first Secretary. The political party was not legalized until 1977, during the Spanish transition to democracy after Franco's death in November 1975.
From 1977 to 1980, Pujol was Minister without portfolio in the Provisional government of Catalonia, presided by Josep Tarradellas. In 1977 he led Pacte Democràtic per Catalunya, a coalition of Catalan parties that were trying to approve the Statute of Autonomy of Catalonia. In the Spanish general election of 1977 he was elected to the Spanish Congress of Deputies, representing Barcelona. Pujol was re-elected at the 1979 General Election but resigned from the parliament in 1980.
During the last decades of the Franco regime and his 23 years as President of the Generalitat de Catalunya, Jordi Pujol adhered to the majority establishment in Catalan nationalism, which, instead of seeking a fully independent republic, intended to work towards a federalized Spain that would, according to Pujol, recognize Catalonia "as a country, as a collective with its own personality and differences," and a "guarantee that her own identity be respected". However, with the conservative People's Party opposing the Catalan Statute of Autonomy, as well as the recognition for the language in the east of Aragon, Pujol has stated that "there is more aggression towards Catalonia than ever", and that Catalans can "no longer hope for anything from the Spanish state".
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