Lluís Puig has retaken his seat in the Parliament and will join this Thursday as a Junts deputy, nine years after the referendum of October 1, 2017. The former Minister of Culture is already in Catalonia and his return will be activated with a reception in the Chamber before the start of the plenary session.
The president of the Parliament, Josep Rull, explained on RAC1 that he will receive him at 3:00 p.m. at the entrance of the headquarters and that, afterwards, the Bureau will offer him a reception. Rull also plans to give him the floor before the plenary session, as he has done on other occasions with deputies who have been absent due to leave.
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Rull has defended that Puig's absence is not due to chance, but to a "very clear situation of political and judicial repression". With this framework, the return of the Junts deputy enters the institutional agenda of the day, although it is crossed by the political interpretation made by the presidency of the Chamber itself.
Puig claims independentist continuity and the hemicycle is divided
From the rostrum of the hemicycle, Puig has assured that he remains "convincedly independentist" and has warned that "nothing begins and nothing ends today, but rather continues." His first words after his return to Catalonia, after nine years away since 1-O, have been applauded by Junts, ERC, Comuns, CUP and AC, as well as the Minister of Business and Labor, Miquel Sàmper, who stood up.
PSC-Units and PP remained seated in their seats and did not applaud, while Vox deputies entered the plenary session once the speech concluded. Rull plans to give him the floor before the start of the plenary session, in a gesture that will formally fit his return into the start of the parliamentary debate.