The president of the Regional Government of Castilla-La Mancha, Emiliano García-Page, maintained this Monday that if the former president of the Generalitat Carles Puigdemont decides to reach an agreement with the acting head of the Executive, Pedro Sánchez, his people would call him "botifler".
"When I can agree with others, I do so and I also say it very clearly, without being a collaborationist. If tomorrow Puigdemont, let's say a case, makes an agreement, his people are going to call him a collaborationist, well, 'botifler'," he proclaimed in a event from Alarcón (Cuenca).
During his speech, the Castilian-Manchego president denounced the "great fallacy" that consists in Spain of "exaggerating plurality, diversity, to break unity", while defending that "the plural, the diverse, can only be preached regarding a unit."
However, García-Page believes that the fact of speaking between different parties should not be seen "as a negative fact." "Agreeing should be the general rule and not the exception and today unfortunately the opposite happens in this country of ours and I am very sorry because many things come from all of this."
García-Page has assured that in this country, every time someone talks about plurality, they "start to tremble" because "they say it to have more money, to have more privileges, or to break unity." "Plurality is based on unity."
On the other hand, he has emphasized the fact that in the Spanish Transition, that mayors from the PP or the PSOE, and some who are neither from the PP nor the PSOE, shook hands, spoke, shared problems and signed, "it didn't lead you to be called a collaborationist and pointed the finger at you like a madman."
"Our system of coexistence has been based on the fact of agreeing. Now, if I agree with a PP leader on something, they call me a collaborationist," lamented García-Page, who warns that "it is one thing not to achieve agreements." and another thing is to demonize, to banish the fact of agreeing in itself."
That said, he commented that "everyone at street level knows that anything that can be settled through agreements is always better than banging your head against a wall or against your opponent."
However, he considers that the fact of speaking between different parties should not be seen "as a negative fact." "Agreeing should be the general rule and not the exception and today unfortunately the opposite happens in this country of ours and I am very sorry because many things come from all of this."
