He returned to Spain after seven years in exile. Carles Puigdemont The former Catalan president on Thursday, MTI reported.
The separatist politician appeared in the morning at the meeting announced as his welcome by his party, Together for Catalonia (Junts per Catalunya), where he addressed the gathered sympathizers.
Some will celebrate my arrest and think that ridicule will deter us. They are wrong.
– He said in his short speech, which the authorities estimated was delivered in front of more than two thousand people.
He stressed that the Catalans would not give up their right to self-determination and asked those gathered not to confuse each other because “holding a referendum is not a crime.”
I don't know when we will see each other again, but no matter what happens, we can shout together again to live a free Catalonia.
The former president said. In this event, the authorities did not detain the politician, who still has an arrest warrant in Spain.
According to a video message posted by Carles Puigdemont on X on Wednesday, he returned to Spain to participate in a session of the Catalan parliament, which About Ella Salvador, MPs will vote for the presidential candidate of the Catalan Socialist Party, who won provincial elections in May.
The parliamentary session began as planned with a speech on the presidential candidate's programme, but Puigdemont did not appear in the session hall and nothing is known about his whereabouts. The press is speculating about where he might go after the political rally.
Because of the presidential election, police have imposed a security cordon around the parliament in Barcelona, which is accessible through a single, controlled entrance.
According to the scenario previously presented by the newspapers, if the politician is detained by the Catalan police, he must first appear before the local competent judge, but it is up to the Supreme Court to decide whether he will be remanded in custody due to the risk of flight or hiding, or whether he can defend himself at large.
