The Junts candidate for the general elections, Miriam Nogueras, boasted this Saturday that during this legislature she has pushed for and pressured the passage of the law on repeat offenders to move forward: “Whoever makes it, pays for it, and I don’t care where they come from.”
“The laws of Catalunya, to comply with them. And security is a right that everyone is entitled to,” she said at a rally held in Manresa (Barcelona) in front of more than a hundred party members and supporters. At the event, the lead candidate for the Senate for Barcelona, Josep Maria Vila d'Abadal, and the city candidate, Ramon Bacardit, also spoke.
Nogueras defended that the law on repeat offenders is an achievement attributable to Junts and not to the PSOE of Pedro Sánchez, nor to the PP, nor to ERC nor to the Comuns, whom she criticized for voting against the measure.
She emphasized that it was a persistent demand from shopkeepers, police forces, and neighbors, and added that even mayors from the PSC and from ERC were calling for this regulation, underscoring that “Junts has done the work.”
After highlighting other milestones of the legislature, she took the opportunity to attack the socialists for having backed the “scum” of the PP when the Government led by Mariano Rajoy applied Article 155 of the Constitution in Catalonia after 1-O.
Criticism of Illa and defense of Junts’ role
“So, those little lessons in stopping the right—none. The people of Junts have memory, Mr. Illa,” Nogueras said in reference to the president of the Generalitat, Salvador Illa, stressing that Junts is the only political formation of strictly Catalan obedience that is running in the general elections.
Along these lines, she lamented that they don’t interview her, youtubers like Jordi Wild, who has spoken with Pedro Sánchez, Alberto Núñez Feijóo and Ada Colau, and she assured that none of them has been able to explain “anything that they have done” to improve people’s lives.
Investment in Catalonia and territorial distribution
Nogueras also insisted that the money generated by Catalans must remain in Catalonia. She referred to the latest investment figures from the Government, which, according to her, show that 162 euros have been allocated per Catalan, 452 per person from Madrid, and 590 per citizen from Murcia.
“I hope that all of you who are listening to us will explain what happens to your money. And the fact is that that money stays in Madrid and doesn’t come back,” she denounced to the audience.
Situation in Manresa and problems with repeat offenders
Ramon Bacardit, Junts candidate for mayor of Manresa, has warned that the city has experienced a continuing degradation in recent years in the social and economic spheres, with "dirty streets, abandoned buildings, downturned shutters, and too many people with their heads looking down".
"We have to raise this up!", he has demanded, celebrating the pressure exerted to approve the law on repeat offenders, considering that repeat offending has been and continues to be a problem in the municipality.
Likewise, he has expressed his desire that, if Junts is again decisive in the next legislature, work be done to push forward a law against squatting.