Catalonia's former President Carles Puigdemont is pushing to return to Spain from exile following a European Union Advocate General's ruling generally favourable to the application of Spain's amnesty law, drawn up by the ruling PSOE party and Catalonia's Junts.
Puigdemont, a fugitive separatist currently residing in Vallespir in southern France, has filed an appeal with the Spanish Constitutional Court, asking it to suspend his state arrest warrant and his provisional imprisonment to avoid "irreparable damage" to his fundamental rights and to consider the amnesty law "fully effective and applicable".
