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 huyĂł en 2017, ha desatado un terremoto polĂtico en un momento
00:18clave para la polĂtica 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. Allà 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.