Catalan separatist leader Carles Puigdemont announces he will return to Spain by Thursday

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The former MEP faces immediate arrest if he returns to the country he fled in October 2017 to avoid prison, three days after the failed Catalan declaration of independence.

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00:00Former president of Catalonia, Carles Puigdemont, has announced that he will return to Spain

00:06after avoiding charges for nearly seven years.

00:10La Vuelta de Puigdemont, que huyó en 2017, ha desatado un terremoto político en un momento

00:18clave para la política catalana y española. El expresidente catalán, Carles Puigdemont,

00:22ha anunciado este miércoles, según sus palabras, que ha emprendido el viaje de retorno

00:27del exilio. El expresidente y fundador de Junts per Catalunya ha convocado un acto para

00:32que le acompañen este jueves hasta el Parlamento catalán. Allí se celebrará el pleno de

00:37investidura del socialista Salvador Illa, que ha logrado recabar los apoyos de Esquerra

00:42Republicana de Cataluña, el otro partido independentista de la Cámara.

00:45Carles Puigdemont, on X, vowed to be present at Thursday's vote on the region's presidency.

00:52It is unclear how Puigdemont will enter the country without facing immediate arrest, but

00:57it is believed the separatist leader might try to enter illegally.

01:22Puigdemont has been avoiding charges of rebellion, sedition and embezzlement. He fled Spain after

01:38authorities ordered his detention for organising an illegal independence referendum in 2017.

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