On Monday, in the headquarters of the Catalan Green Socialist Party
'Iniciativa per Catalunya-Verds' (ICV), Ska Keller offered a press
conference alongside ICV's main candidate in the next European
Elections, Ernest Urtasun. In the next electoral call for the European
Parliament, for the first time, parties have officially started
presenting their candidates to chair the European Commission. In this
vein, European Green parties, including ICV, elected German Ska Keller
as their candidate. At Spanish level, Urtasun will be ICV's main
candidate, running in coalition with the United Left 'Izquierda Unida'
(IU).
Ska Keller supported Catalonia's right to self-determination and
urged the Spanish Government to talk to make it happen. "If I am elected
President of the European Commission I will act to make this dialogue
happen and the referendum take place. People should be allowed to vote",
she said.
Ernest Urtasun praised the "high value" of Keller's words. "Keller's
commitment is the result of ICV's long work to seek for allies outside
Catalonia that can speak out for Catalonia's right to
self-determination", he emphasised. Now "an important European political
family such as the Greens are also in favour of the
[self-determination] consultation vote", said Urtasun.
