2023-08-03 08:30:00
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Exiled in Belgium, he could, with his Junts deputies, unblock the political situation frozen since the legislative elections of July 23. A new hour of glory…
From our correspondent in Madrid, François Musseau MEP and former President of Catalonia Carles Puigdemont in Brussels, July 5, 2023. © Kenzo Tribouillard/AFP Published on 03/08/2023 at 08:30
The situation does not fail to be comical: the man who claims to hate Spain, who says worse than to hang in his place, this same man is today his jailer. Or, more precisely, the one who will decide if the political blockage of the country is prolonged, worsens and must irremediably lead to new elections, or if the lock is undone and leads to the constitution of a new leftist government for four years additional.
Carles Puigdemont has the keys. Him and him alone, from the height of his 60 springs and his false airs of adolescent and Beatles anachronistic. The one he and his secessionist camp describe as an “exile”, anchored in his Belgian fort in Waterloo, and whom almost all of Spain qualifies as a “judicial fugitive”, today has the power to dec…
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