COPENHAGEN: Ousted Catalan leader Carles Puigdemont vowed on Monday to form a new government despite “threats” from the central government in Madrid, as a Spanish judge refused to re-issue a European warrant for his arrest.
“We will not surrender to authoritarianism despite Madrid’s threats,” he said during a debate on Catalonia at the University of Copenhagen.
“Soon we will form a new government... it’s time to end their oppression and find a political solution for Catalonia,” the 55-year-old politician added.
Puigdemont’s comments came hours after the speaker of the Catalan parliament proposed him as president of Catalonia following a snap election in December in which separatist parties once again won an absolute majority, in a major blow to the central government in Madrid.
Published in Dawn, January 23rd, 2018
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