The president of Òmnium Cultural, Jordi Cuixart, has expressed hopefulness about Catalonia's self-determination process and political situation, in a letter written from the prison of Lledoners, in Catalonia. "Not only can we win, but we're already winning", he said. Cuixart is in prison because of his mobilisation in favour of last year's independence referendum.
300 days after he was imprisoned, the Òmnium president has called for unity in pro-independence movement and has asserted that it needs "to enrich leaderships of institutions and at street level" and "to reach great consensuses", in a letter in Catalan newspaper Ara. He assured that "honest dialogue without preconditions will be the only solution to political conflict" between Catalonia and Spain.
Regarding the trial of political prisoners, Cuixart denounced State's violations of fundamental rights of citizens and also Catalan leaders. He encouraged supporters to address "public opinion as a whole in the face of democratic repression we are experiencing".
Cuixart believes that "it is essential to take advantage of existing leaderships and at the same time generate new ones". "The anti-repression struggle is one of the main unitary fronts of pro-independence movement and it would be absurd to give it up, since it's a basic instrument to advance in processes of national liberation," asserted the president of Òmnium.
Political prisoners and exiles are "a democratic lever", Cuixart assured, that can serve to "get international community to denounce" the situation in Catalonia. For this reason, he asked not to give in to the attempt to silence the legal barbarity of Spanish justice system, which has made disproportionate and unfounded accusations.
The leader of Òmnium has said that his 300 days in prison have strengthened his "democratic convictions". "It's been months since any sentence could defeat me. Guilty verdicts will weigh much more heavily on them than on us," he concluded.