Catalan independence leader Carles Puigdemont, a refugee in Brussels since 2017, is ready to return to Spain soon even at the risk of being detained, his lawyer said on Friday, confirming that the current MEP intends to head the Junta list at the start of regional elections. elections on May 12 in Catalonia. Even if Puigdemont is detained entering Spanish territory, he will be quickly released thanks to an amnesty law approved this week by the Spanish parliament, which forgives him all crimes committed as part of the Catalan independence process, lawyer Gonzalo Boyer said. , for which he is wanted by the courts. “The only people who can stop him from becoming president of the Generalitat again are the voters,” Boyer said, confirming that Puigdemont intends to run.
According to Boyer, “this is the big fear” of Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez and the leader of the Catalan Republican Left, Pere Aragones, the current leader of the Catalan government, who this week decided to postpone the elections to May 12, that according to Younts, this could be an attempt to avoid participation Puigdemont, since the amnesty law, which will allow the candidate a “clean” return, is due to be considered only at the end of May or beginning of June.