Puigdemont 'might risk returning to Spain' if he wins regional election
Wednesday, December 13, 2017 @ 11:20 AM
FORMER Catalunya regional president Carles Puigdemont says he is considering 'running the risk' of returning to Spain to be re-invested in the role if he wins the elections on December 21.
Puigdemont, currently in exile in Belgium along with four of his ministers, had his European arrest warrant lifted, but knows that if he sets foot on Spanish soil again, he will be immediately taken into custody.
He still intends to stand for the election and considers himself still to be Catalunya's president, despite the State having taken control of the region and fired its entire government.
The problem he faces is that if he wins the election, the formal investiture ceremony has to take place in the regional Parliament of Catalunya.
“It might be worth the risk,” Puigdemont reportedly said today (Wednesday).
“You cannot be invested as president in Brussels – nor in prison. You have to be free for, at the very least, the time it takes for the investiture to be completed. But for me, the people's votes carry more weight than handcuffs and iron bars.”
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