Main unionist party to skip National Day commemoration

The main unionist party in Catalonia, Ciutadans, will skip this year’s National Day commemoration events held around September 11, as was also the case last year.

In an interview with the Catalan News Agency (ACN), its leader, Lorena Roldán, said that the government’s approach to this festivity “excludes half of all Catalans.”  

The cabinet believes that the National Day needs to serve as a “first response” to potentially guilty verdict on the nine jailed political and civil society leaders for their role surrounding the 2017 independence bid.

According to Roldán, “any democrat’s” first reaction to the Supreme Court decision on the case should be to accept it. The verdict could be out as soon as late September or early October.