Carles Puigdemont wants to represent Spain in the European Parliament.
By Michael Birnbaum and Michael Birnbaum Brussels bureau chief covering Europe Email Bio Follow Rebecca Banovic May 7 BRUSSELS — Carles Puigdemont once tried to lead Catalonia to independence from Spain. Now his dominion is a house in the suburbs of Brussels.
Meanwhile, some of his rivals and former compatriots will be running from behind bars in Spain, where they are on trial for rebellion, disobedience and misuse of public funds.“We decided to live here in order to continue fighting,” Puigdemont said in an interview. “If all of us were in jail, the narrative, the version of the Catalan crisis could be very different.”
“I am living here as a free man. I feel at home in some way, because I am very comfortable living around Europe,” he said. “But it is not exactly my office as in Barcelona.” Now Puigdemont gets up in time for an 8 a.m. video check-in with a team in Barcelona that still calls him “Mr. President.” He gives video interviews to Catalan television outlets. He speaks, by video, to political rallies. His wife and his daughters, aged 9 and 11, stayed behind, so he rings them in the morning as they drive to school, then chats with them over a video connection in the evenings to help his daughter with her math, Catalan- and Spanish-language class homework.
Next, Junqueras, who is Puigdemont’s former deputy, is poised to square off against him in the race for European Parliament. Junqueras will run from prison. Puigdemont will run from Waterloo.
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