Carles Puigdemont announced his intention to run in the Catalan elections on May 12 and to return to the country. “If I obtain a parliamentary majority which nominates me as a candidate for nomination, then I will abandon exile definitively,” he declared in particular.
Promising a new referendum and the independence of the region, Carles Puigsdemont returned to his promises from 2017. It remains to be seen whether the Catalans will still follow him at the polls.