Victor Mondelo Barcelona
Barcelona
Updated Friday, April 5, 2024-17:56
Six and a half years after his escape to Belgium to flee from Spanish Justice, the former president of the Generalitat and leader of Junts,
Carles Puigdemont
, abandons his mansion in Waterloo and sets up his residence in the French region of Vallespir, located just 30 kilometers from the border.
With this movement, the fugitive seeks to stage a gradual approach to Catalonia after in the conference given to confirm his candidacy he promised that he would return to Spain if he gathers the necessary support to be sworn into Parliament in the month of June when, he calculates, the The amnesty law has already been applied and, therefore, the arrest warrant on Spanish soil against him has expired.
Puigdemont has already made his attendance at 12-M official from Elna, the French municipality where the 1-O ballot boxes were hidden, and he will return to this town tomorrow to present the rest of the candidates on his list. Both Elna and the Vallespir region are located in what the independence movement calls
Catalunya Nord
, as is Perpignan, the city from which Puigdemont staged a massive rally in 2020, taking advantage of his newly acquired immunity as a European parliamentarian. Already then he defended that, with that step, he had returned to Catalonia.
Puigdemont has already broken his promise to return to Catalonia twice. He assured that he was going to do so in the election campaign of December 21, 2017, those called in application of article 155 of the Constitution. Finally, and despite becoming the most voted separatist candidate, he avoided taking the step and tried to be inaugurated electronically. When the Spanish Justice prevented him from doing so, he ended up designating Quim Torra as valid and used him to control the Government from Waterloo.