spanishpolitics
After nearly seven years on the run, exiled separatist Catalan leader Carles Puigdemont has returned to Spain, flying in the face of a warrant out for his arrest. His return comes seven years after Catalonia's unauthorised independence referendum, a vote that was not sanctioned by Spanish authorities and which attracted a notorious police crackdown. Not long after that incident, Puigdemont smuggled himself out of the country in the boot of a car to avoid arrest, setting himself up in Brussels as successive Spanish governments sought to have him extradited to stand trial. Earlier this week, Pui...
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Former president of Catalonia Carles Puigdemont announced Wednesday that he is on his way back to Spain after years of avoiding the Spanish justice system. The separatist leader reiterated the trip to his native country was his last option to try to avoid what he said was a pro-Spanish regional government in Catalonia, which is set to take over this week after a vote in the regional parliament. "I have to be there, and I want to be. That is why I have undertaken the journey back from exile," he said in a video on social media platform X on Wednesday. Earlier in the week, the separatist leader ...
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"Go home!", cries out a man in swimming togs, frantically waving at a group of bewildered tourists trying to access the Caló des Moro, one of Majorca’s most famous and picturesque beaches. He is one of the dozens of residents who had come early that Sunday to occupy the site, in protest againsst the "massification" of tourism, which they say has "devastating effects" on their island, and their lives. “We have cruises [cruise ships] every day with thousands of people. We have a flight every minute! It’s cars, it’s pollution. Beaches, restaurants are full of the streets are full of people! We’re...
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Spain's parliament is expected to give the final approval on Thursday to a controversial amnesty law for hundreds of Catalan separatists involved in the illegal and unsuccessful 2017 secession bid. The legislation is backed by Spain's left-wing coalition government, two Catalan separatist parties, and other smaller parties. It is expected to pass despite the conservative Popular Party and far-right Vox voting against it. The amnesty could benefit former Catalan regional president Carles Puigdemont, a fugitive from Spanish law in Belgium after fleeing his country following the failed breakaway ...
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