Spain: Carles Puigdemont wants to run in the Catalan regional elections
In Elne, in France and a few kilometers from the Spanish border, the former Catalan leader, Carles Puigdemont, announced, on the evening of Thursday March 21, his return to politics. He was faced with a thousand demonstrators, who had come for the occasion.
Catalan separatist leader Carles Puigdemont and his wife Marcela Topor attend an event to announce his candidacy for the May 12 Catalan elections, in Elne, France, March 21, 2024. © Albert Gea/Reuters
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With our correspondent in Barcelona,
Élise Gazengel
Carles Puigdemont will return to
Catalonia
. This Thursday evening, barely 25 kilometers from the
Spanish
border , the former Catalan leader announced, in front of hundreds of activists, 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 to return to the Catalan Parliament
,” he declared in particular.
More than six years after his flight to Belgium, Carles Puigdemont hopes that
the amnesty law
, which should erase his legal troubles, will be approved by then, even if he says he is ready to run the risk of arrest.
Carles Puigdemont rediscovers his promises of 2017
“
This man showed enough courage to face a really difficult situation because he risks his freedom for an idea and that is priceless,
” explains, moved, Toni Puig, a retiree.
Promising a new referendum and the independence of the region, Carles Puigdemont returned to his promises from 2017. It remains to be seen whether the Catalans will still follow him at the polls.
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