Former Catalan independence leader and Junta candidate in Catalonia’s regional elections in May Carles Puigdemont vowed on Tuesday to “give up active politics” if he is not elected president of the regional government.
“I absolutely do not consider myself an opposition leader,” Puigdemont told Catalan radio station Rac 1, adding that he intends to “restore an independent majority” to “complete the work started with the 2017 referendum.” “I want Catalonia to be independent tomorrow, I do not pretend to be the head of the public administration,” he emphasized.
Puigdemont, who has been in exile in Brussels for more than six years and is the subject of an international arrest warrant for organizing an illegal 2017 referendum, assured he would not return to Spain during the campaign for the May 12 elections but promised to return on the inauguration day of the next regional government , regardless of whether he is elected president or not, since at that time the Amnesty Law will already be in effect. “The expulsion stage is over,” he assured.
Author: Ricardo Ramos
Source: CM Jornal
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