Carles Puigdemont will announce his candidacy for the presidency of the Generalitat
All the Junts leaders who are traveling to Northern Catalonia this Thursday expect Carles Puigdemont to announce his candidacy for the presidency of the Generalitat. In a conference in Elna, the moral leader and MEP of the party will make public his future plans, which all indicate that they are going to happen – as detailed by Nació this Monday – to gamble everything on 12-M and not repeat in the Eurochamber, with all that it implies at a legal level and for the purposes of a possible return to Catalonia protected by the amnesty law, now immersed in processing in the Senate.
The context of the conference in Elna
The intervention of Carles Puigdemont in Elna, which will take place at seven in the afternoon in the town hall of the northern Catalan municipality, may be one of the last that he stars in since exile, where he landed after the referendum and the declaration of independence These are the 12 lives the former president has had since the fall of 2017, when the legal battle against the State began. In all this time he has founded a party, avoided extradition and maintained influence over domestic politics. Six and a half years later, the goal is to return to where he left off.
The future of Carles Puigdemont
Carles Puigdemont plans to gamble everything on 12-M and not repeat in the Eurochamber. This implies a possible return to Catalonia protected by the amnesty law, which is currently being processed in the Senate. Junts’ moral leader and MEP will make public his future plans at a conference in Elna, where all the party leaders will travel. Puigdemont’s goal is to return to Catalonia and present himself as a candidate for the presidency of the Generalitat.
