The Urban Guard of Barcelona puts 115,000 attendees at the Diada demonstration

BARCELONA, 11 Sep. (EUROPA PRESS) -

The Urban Guard of Barcelona has estimated that 115,000 people attended the ANC demonstration for the Diada, according to municipal sources.

This year's demonstration was divided into four columns that left the City of Justice, the Proa School, Sants Station and Plaza Letamendi and converged on Plaza España.

The mobilization, under the motto 'Via fora' - a historic cry of alarm in medieval Catalonia - has reached the square, where the four banners have turned to show a mosaic with the legend 'For independence, via fora'.

For its part, the ANC has estimated that 800,000 people attended the demonstration, sources from the pro-independence entity have informed Europa Press.

Some protesters have shouted 'Govern resign' to the president of the Generalitat, Pere Aragonès, while others have responded with shouts of 'Independence'.

The Catalan president participated in one of the four columns of the demonstration, that of 'La llengua', which left the Proa School and arrived at Plaza España along Creu Coberta Street, along with other councilors of his Executive and elected representatives of the Republicans.

Protesters carrying signs of 'Govern resignation', 'Foc nou' and 'Amnesty, independence' also participated in this column.

At specific moments, shouts of 'Puigdemont, president' have been heard, one person has shouted 'Aragonese, sold' --'Aragonese, vendido'-- and another 'You have no shame' --'You have no shame'--, in what the demonstrators have responded by asking for 'Independence'.

In the 'Sovereignty' column, which left in front of the Treasury building in Plaza Letamendi, shouts of 'Puigdemont, the nostre president' were heard throughout the march, especially in the head when facing the last stretch of the Gran Via to Plaza Espanya.

Some demonstrators also held placards with the message 'Government resignation'; in another it read 'Aragonese, you don't do anything'--'Aragonese, you do nothing'-- and in another the words 'Enough submission, Government resignation'--'Enough of submission, Government resignation'--, imitating the design of the Generalitat poster for this year's Day.

It was precisely in this column that the leaders of Junts marched, led by its president, Laura Borràs, whom several supporters came to greet before the demonstration started.

The president of the ANC, Dolors Feliu, has asked ERC and Junts to demand that the State negotiate the "legitimacy" of the 1-O result in the investiture negotiations with PSOE and Sumar, and then that the Parliament declare independence.

"Any object of negotiation other than that lowers democratic minimums and whitewashes the Spanish State in the face of Europe," he said in his speech at the demonstration.

Feliu recalled that one of the ANC's ongoing projects is a civic list for the Parliamentary elections, and added that, if politicians "do not know how" to achieve independence, the Government must call elections.

For his part, the singer-songwriter and member of the leadership of the Consell de la República (CdRep), Lluís Llach, has called for the union of the independence movement because "disunited it loses its strength, its temper and its reason for being." This was stated this Monday in the final act of the demonstration.

"It is no longer admissible that the partisan fights to manage the autonomous crumbs make us lose the viability of our future as a country," said Llach, who has confirmed the importance of day-to-day government.

Finally, the president of Òmnium Cultural, Xavier Antich, has assured that "the cohesion and strength" of the independence movement is its transversality, and has defended that his entity works to unite a plural movement with the common objective of achieving the independence of Catalonia.