The ERC executive has considered this Monday an “offense” that the former president of the Generalitat, Carles Puigdemont, holds the party responsible for his possible arrest when he returns to Catalonia and has demanded that he rectify his actions and apologize.

In a statement, they admit that political opponents may criticize the Republicans’ decision to support the investiture of the first secretary of the PSC, Salvador Illa, as president of the Generalitat, but “certain limits cannot be exceeded.”

“To consider that a hypothetical arrest of President Puigdemont would be the fault of ERC is an insult,” they have maintained after the former Catalan president assured this Saturday that the support of the Republicans to the PSC makes his arrest a real possibility in a few days.

In response to this, the ERC leadership is calling on the former Catalan president to rectify and apologize, arguing that they are a sovereign, democratic formation that has always They will make political decisions counting on their militancy, “with majority and consensus.”

“It is obvious that Puigdemont’s party and political entourage consider that the decision taken by the Esquerra bases last Friday It is harmful for their electoral interests,” they maintain.

“Shameful and offensive”

The Republicans warn that using “repression to try to gain electoral advantage is shameful and offensive,” a matter for which they also ask for a rectification. The ERC executive also demands that the civic organizations and entities who have positioned themselves on the party’s decision that respect “the militancy and the democratically impeccable process.”