The self-exiled former Catalan president Carles Puigdemont has called for the dropping of all judicial cases against himself and his fellow separatists as the price for securing his party’s support in forming a new Spanish government in the wake of July’s inconclusive general election.
Puigdemont, who is currently a member of the European parliament, has lived in Brussels for the past six years after fleeing Spain to avoid arrest over his role in the failed unilateral bid for regional independence in October 2017.
