BarcelonaEight days after President Pere Aragonès announced that he would call elections, and once the decree calling for May 12 has already been signed, all eyes will be on Carles Puigdemont this Thursday. The former president and leader of Junts will explain in a conference in Elna, in Northern Catalonia, what his role will be in the elections. At this point, both inside and outside his party, everyone takes it for granted that he will announce his candidacy on 12-M. The event, which will start at 7 p.m. at Elna Town Hall, is set to be Puigdemont’s first major pre-campaign event.
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“With the proposed electoral calendar, I will be able to be present at the investiture debate. And I would be very excited, more than six years and four months after maintaining the presidency despite the 155 and the exile”, he said already Puigdemont after Aragonès activated the countdown to the polls. And it is that, despite the maneuvers of the PP to delay the approval of the amnesty law in the Senate, at the end of May at the latest the rule should enter into force and the joint leader should be able to return to Catalonia without risk of being arrested. His lawyer, Gonzalo Boye, has explained that from that moment he will return even if there are doubts about the application of the amnesty by the doubters.
Before the return, however, there will be the ballot boxes, and Junts has found in Puigdemont its main electoral weapon. The former president, in fact, decides to prioritize the Catalan elections over the European ones, which will take place on June 9. This evening should shed a little more light on the doubts about his candidacy (or candidacies), and he will do so from a place as symbolic as Elna. With clear connections to the republican exile – it hosts the maternity hospital created by the Swiss Elisabeth Eidenbenz – and Catalanism, it was in a very close locality where the 1-O ballot boxes were hidden, and in the same municipality they printed millions of ballots.
2024-03-21 08:25:12
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