(Junts) The story behind this trend in Social Media today
02-10-2026
I’ll look up what’s driving the Junts conversation on social media today.The surge around Junts today comes from two overlapping stories on the ninth anniversary of the 1 October 2017 referendum.Junts spent the day marking that anniversary. Overnight and through the morning it hung banners across Catalonia under the slogan “Hi érem, hi som, hi serem” (“We were there, we are here, we will be here”). In a manifesto and public statements the party called the 2017 vote democratic, legitimate and still binding, said more than two million people had defied what it describes as state violence to vote for independence, and argued that nine years later the Spanish response has been repression, criminalization and the blocking of self-determination. It demanded full application of the amnesty law so that Carles Puigdemont and the former ministers Toni Comín and Lluís Puig can return to ordinary political life, and it restated independence as its only project. Leaders including Puigdemont and Jordi Turull framed the day as proof that Catalan unity cannot be stopped. The commemorations took place against a weaker electoral position for the party, with polls showing losses to the PSC, ERC and Aliança Catalana.The sharper social-media fight broke later in the day over housing. After an emergency executive meeting, Junts said it will vote against both government housing decree-laws due in Congress on Friday. The party called the texts badly drafted and argued they would shrink rental supply and push prices higher rather than ease the crisis; it asked for them to be withdrawn and rewritten, and said it would support a new version that actually reverses the housing problem. With only a handful of seats, its seven deputies are decisive. Tenant groups and housing campers attacked the decision, while the government portrayed a “no” as siding with speculators and, according to Catalan reporting, warned of early elections and wider economic fallout if the decrees fall. Junts presented the refusal as defence of Catalan families and small owners, not a blank cheque to Madrid.So the trend mixes anniversary symbolismbanners, the old referendum mandate, amnestywith a same-day parliamentary clash that could sink the housing measures and strain the party’s role in keeping the Spanish government afloat.