Who is who in the ANC, after the most controversial demonstration of the Diada

The ANC warms up before the most controversial demonstration of Diada 2022. The organization has displayed a huge stelae in Plaça Sant Jaume to promote participation in the march, which the Catalan president Pere Aragonès will not attend for going “against the institutions “That he rules. On the other hand, it will go to the one organized by Òmnium Cultural, the other civil leg of secessionism that defends consensus. The march that will begin on Paral lel avenue and end in Marquès de l’Argentera is, according to the management, critical with the executive, although they invite everyone who wants to join. The organization affirms that they have already chartered 150 coaches that will arrive from all over Catalonia. Meanwhile, the non-attendance of Aragonès is one of the most notorious divorces of the independence movement. Aragonès and Republican President Oriol Junqueras attended the 2021 march, where they were booed. This year, all the ERC councilors have announced that they will not attend either. Gone is the union of independence parties that came en bloc to the demonstration organized by the ANC with the assistance of Òmnium Cultural. The couple headed by Jordi Sànchez and Jordi Cuixart (Òmnium) have gone their separate ways. The ANC led by Elisenda Paluzie has already criticized the pacts between the ERC and Pedro Sánchez’s PSOE and the split has become evident with the new leadership, headed by Dolors Feliu, who calls for firm steps towards independence. Who is part of the current leadership? Independence as the “only way” Dolors Feliu (Roda de Ter, 1964) is a lawyer and university professor. Feliu was a member of Convergència Democràtica de Catalunya and later of the PDeCat, from 2008 to 2018, when Puigdemont broke with the formation. She became president of the ANC on May 21, 2022. She has developed her professional career in the Catalan administration. She has been a lawyer for the Generalitat and was a member of the team that tried to shield the Statute to avoid cuts. In 2015 she was part of the Junts per Sí candidacy, number 46 on the list. On several occasions he has stated that during the negotiation of the Statute he saw independence as “the only way out”. Jordi Pesarrodona became one of the images of the Procés, when he stood before a Civil Guard agent with a clown nose during the demonstrations against the police search in the Ministry of Economy, ten days before the referendum. He was a councilor for the ERC in Sant Joan de Vilatorrada. He also stood at the Escola Joncadella during 1-O where he closed the doors of the enclosure to prevent the entry of agents of the national police. He was sentenced to 14 months of disqualification and a fine of 2,100 euros for serious disobedience to authority. In 2019 he left the republican formation when, as he explains, he saw that “the roadmap to independence was not going to be fulfilled.” After a frustrated attempt to lead Junts in Barcelona, ​​where he came in 13th place in the primaries, he enlisted in the Assembly of Representatives of Puigdemont’s Consell per la República, where he was vice president. He now assures that his is the grassroots militancy. Uriel Bertran will share the vice presidency of the ANC with Pesarrodona, as the entity decided in May. Thus, Pesarrodona occupies it during the first year of the new secretariat’s mandate – until May 2023 – and Bertran will do so the following year. The decision was made after two very close voting rounds. Bertrán (Badalona, ​​1976) is a Catalan economist and politician who created the Solidaritat Catalana per la Independència party, together with Joan Laporta and Alfons López Tena, after leaving ERC. He was a deputy for Barcelona from 2010 to 2012 and devised the “No vull pay” campaign against Catalan tolls. He has dedicated the last few years to university education. Jordi Domingo as new secretary and Josep Pedrol Martí as treasurer. Both have received 42 votes out of 60.