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Exiled separatist leader is likely to return to a very different Catalonia
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Nine years on from a failed independence push, former president Carles Puigdemont will find times have changed After years of legal wrangling, Spain’s constitutional court is expected to remove the last obstacle to the return of the former Catalan president Carles Puigdemont afte
Nine years on from a failed independence push, former president Carles Puigdemont will find times have changed After years of legal wrangling, Spain’s constitutional court is expected to remove the last obstacle to the return of the former Catalan president Carles Puigdemont after nearly nine years in exile this week. Puigdemont fled in 2017 to avoid being jailed for his part in the failed and illegal independence push for which nine of his colleagues were imprisoned on sentences of up to 13 years, although all were released within three years. Continue reading...
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