Editorial
To those who claim they want to rebuild bridges
May 08, 2013
They say we have to rebuild the bridges between Spain and Catalonia. Everyone is saying as much, so it must be true that they are broken. There are normally two responses to a broken bridge. Some hold that the bridge cannot be repaired because over time the river has been poorly regulated and those who could regulate it have no intention of doing so. The second response comes from those who would regulate the river and rebuild the bridge.
Specific Article
Editorial (Jordi Pujol)
The disarray of the European left
Collaborators: Josep Maria Vallès, Pier Aldo Rovatti and Toni Cruanyes
Jordi Pujol believes that there is great confusion in Europe, especially regarding the left, and that we need to reflect at length to save the welfare state and promote values that are appropriate for our times. He gives an example of this by talking about immigration.
A short biography of Jordi Pujol
Jordi Pujol served as president of the Catalan Generalitat and party leader of the nationalist coalition Convergència i Unió (CiU) from 1980 to 2003. He was consecutively re-elected in 1984, 1988, 1992, 1995 and 1999.
At the first, fifth and sixth legislatures CiU won the parliamentary elections with a relative majority, and at the second, third and fourth, by an absolute majority. Complete political biography.
Essential Information
- Born June 9 1930 in Barcelona. Married to Marta Ferrusola, with whom he has 7 children.
- Earned a Doctorate in Medicine from Barcelona University.
- Speaks Catalan, Spanish, French, English, German and Italian.
- At 11 years of age, first became aware of Catalonia's devastation in the aftermath of the Spanish Civil War. It was then that he began to consider the future challenge: to rebuild Catalonia.
- June 13 1960: imprisoned by the Franco regime for protest activities at the Palau de la Música. Remained in prison until 1962.
- April 24 1980: elected as the first president of the Catalan Generalitat after the re-establishment of democracy in Spain.
- December 16 2003: left the presidency after 23 consecutive years.
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