Fugitive ex-president’s party says he will seek legal move-ahead to attend investiture debateThe fugitive former Catalan president Carles Puigdemont could return to the region this week in an attempt to retake office,three months after he was sacked by the Spanish government over his push for secession. Puigdemont has been in self-imposed exile in Brussels since the end of October, when the Madrid government responded to the Catalan parliament’s unilateral declaration of independence by firing the regional government and assuming direct control of Catalonia.
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Source: guardian.co.uk