Poble Lliure (Free People) Second National Assembly held calls for "unitary and republican candidacies"

Poble Lliure (Free People) held its second national assembly on June 17th in Barcelona. The organization aimed to the leftist groups of the Catalan Countries to create "unitary and republican candidacies that must be a wall of containment to fascism and must lay the foundations for the construction of the Republic," in the face of the municipal elections of 2019. This has been expressed by the spokesman of the independentist organization, Guillem Fuster, who, as of now, will have as spokeswoman Mireia Caldés. The new spokesman of the group warned that "the linguistic division that we want to impose from certain sectors of unionism is a falsehood." According to her, Catalan society "speaks hundreds of different languages ​​and we want Catalan to be a language of cohesion and a cornerstone for the social and cultural integration of all people."

Free People is a Catalan socialist and independentist political organisation, which forms part of the Independentist Catalan Left. Poble Lliure was founded in November 2014 from both historical militants and independents linked to social movements. In the Catalan elections of 2015 Maria Corrales, a member of Poble Lliure, was elected to Parliament of Catalonia in the lists of the Popular Unity Candidacy - Constituent Call. Poble Lliure supportsboth the Popular Unity Candidates as well as he Catalan National Assembly (Assemblea Nacional Catalana, ANC).

The linked training also placed the sovereign parties to create a "strategic strategic direction" and to promote the creation of the National Congress of the Catalan People (CNPC). In this sense, Poble Lliure urged the formation to gather to promote this space of "congregation" of all the entities and parties of the independentism and the republican movement: "it is necessary to coordinate immediately the Assembly of Charges Electos doing Also participating in this space are other areas of representation such as the trade union. "

The organization also warned of the danger of "Ulstering" of Catalan society in reference to the increase of the Spanish "fascist attacks" that are taking place in the streets. The event was attended by members of JxCat, ERC, the CUP, the ANC and Òmnium, Communists of Catalonia, LGTBI Call, Women for the Republic, Intersindical and The Forge, youth section of Free People.