Aragonès insists that Catalonia should lead the 2030 Olympic bid

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Peer Aragonès, in the parliament of Catalonia

The Olympic game is on. After the failed meeting with Javier Lambán and a week following meeting with the president of the COE, Pere Aragonès has advocated because Catalonia “lead” a “strong” bid for the 2030 Winter Olympics. The Catalan president explained in the Parliament that his road map passes because the majority of tests are held in Catalan territory, although he has shown himself open to”participation to other territories”.

“I will always defend, as president of Catalonia, that Catalonia meets all the characteristics for most tests to be held”, he answered the question that had asked the leader of the PSC, Salvador Illa, on whether he is in favor of a joint candidacy with Aragon for that Olympic event. “Does Catalonia have to do these Games alone? No,” he added. “From the first moment we have been open to the participation of other territories, always taking into account not only the trajectory of this candidacy, which does not start now, but also who can host tests from the technical side. When we talk regarding leadership, this is it.”

Illa has replied that Catalonia “can not miss” the possibility of holding the Games, so it has given ” all the support “of the socialist group to” work together and make possible ” the celebration of the Games. “Let’s not lose sight of the fact that doing it with Aragón adds and helps. I am glad that you see it in the same way,” he said constructively.

Less complicity has been found in the ‘comons’ and the CUP. From the anti-capitalist ranks Basha Changue has put in the face of the ‘president’ who advocates a ” green and feminist revolution “and instead bets on”macro-projects such as the expansion of the airport, games, Hard Rock or Formula One”. In the same sense have gone the words of, Jéssica Albiach, the presidency of Aragonès has been described as “unworn”. The parliamentary leader of the ‘comuns’ has assessed that the “macroproject” of the Games, in “line with the expansion of the airport of El Prat”, “is born failed”.

Aragonès, as he did last week before Alejandro Blanco, president of the COE, has once once more raised the Catalan commitment to “sustainable games” and with the “consensus support of citizens”.

Reticence of Aragon and the territory

The reluctance of the territory, on the one hand, and the Aragonese demands to go on equal terms continue to be the main obstacles today of the candidacy for the 2030 Winter Games. Aragonès was scheduled to face Javier Lambán on January 28, a meeting that the president of Aragon canceled due to the” null will of agreement”of his Catalan counterpart”.