The best news of today’s Diada is precisely that it can be celebrated in freedom. It has been 50 years since the Assemblea de Catalunya and the Consell de Forces Polítiques were able to promote a demonstration in Sant Boi de Llobregat that has been repeated uninterruptedly ever since. The Catalanist movement has suffered all kinds of ups and downs in this half century, but what has been unquestionable is the will of thousands of citizens to express their Catalan identity every Onze de Setembre.
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Extinguished, or if you prefer frozen, the independentist spirit that animated the last Diadas during the procés, the main protagonist this year is the threat to coexistence posed by the rise of extremist parties. This issue occupied a good part of the official Diada speech by the president of the Generalitat, Salvador Illa, who showed his concern about the growth of hate messages that endanger coexistence.
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However, extremisms grow from the citizen unrest generated by the lack of housing, low wages, or failures in public services, among many other reasons. Therefore, the best antidote is to offer good management from the Administration. Today, more than ever, responsible political parties should overcome many of their tactics and try to seek the necessary consensus to move the country forward. The same that existed 50 years ago in that Consell de Forces Polítiques that brought together all the anti-Franco movements and whose spirit fueled the recovery of democracy. Even in more recent times, CiU and PSC bet on consensus, as admitted by former presidents José Montilla and Artur Mas in an interview we offer today.
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And if we talk about coexistence and values, what better example than Cristóbal Colón, the founder and soul of the La Fageda cooperative, who passed away yesterday. From absolute nothing, he created an industrial project to provide work and dignity to people with mental disorders and intellectual disabilities. What a huge gap exists between his personal commitment and some hate speeches that are so popular today.
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