<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?><oembed><version>1.0</version><provider_name>CATBLOC</provider_name><provider_url>https://daguer.blogactiv.eu</provider_url><author_name>daguer</author_name><author_url>https://daguer.blogactiv.eu/author/daguer/</author_url><title>Trying to counteract Duran&#039;s unionist stand and Pujol&#039;s lime tea, Artur Mas</title><html>&lt;div&gt;25.01.2012&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;span lang=&quot;EN-US&quot;&gt;A few days ago, Mr.&lt;strong&gt; Oriol Pujol&lt;/strong&gt;, number 3 of CiU federation, recommended to pro-Catalonia independence supporters some lime tea, and Mr. &lt;strong&gt;Duran i Lleida&lt;/strong&gt;, number 2 of the same federation, denied that SNP is for Independence. On Tuesday, Mr. &lt;strong&gt;Artur Mas&lt;/strong&gt;, President of the Generalitat de Catalonia, and CiU&#039;s boss, had to announce that “&lt;em&gt;perhaps the seams of the Constitution and the Estatut have to be teared a bit&lt;/em&gt;”. Thus Mr. Mas is trying to rise as a country’&lt;/span&gt;s defender in front of the previous discouraging statements referred.

Mr. Mas, expects to counteract the nationally frustrating effect of both statements, that caused a deep disappointment between those most sovereignists. These statements disappointed again the most sovereigntist troops. Besides, former Minister &lt;strong&gt;Carme Laura Gil&lt;/strong&gt; censured them in public in her blog, considering them as “&lt;em&gt;regrettable&lt;/em&gt;”. In this way, CiU’s leader is trying to slow Mr. Duran i Lleida’s usual expressions down, which have a clearly pro-Spanish unity tone. We can understand this as an attempt from Mr. Mas to maintain his formation’s typical ambiguity, from which they expect collecting votes from everywhere.

&lt;span lang=&quot;EN-US&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Mr. Oriol Pujol considers that sovereignism, is an affliction that has to be treated with some lime tea&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/span&gt;

&lt;span&gt;&lt;span&gt;In an interview for the newspaper &lt;em&gt;El País&lt;/em&gt;, Mr. Oriol Pujol was asked if sovereignism has to be operated on, or if a pill treatment should be enough. Mr. Pujol declared: “&lt;em&gt;For more or for less? The most effective thing is treating it with lime tea: some lime tea, a bit of patience. Our approaches want neither too much urgency nor fireworks. Otherwise, they create frustrations&lt;/em&gt;.”&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;

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&lt;div&gt;Author: RCAT Web team&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;div&gt;Translation: MA&lt;/div&gt;
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