Puigdemont selected to return on the day that the Catalan parliament was voting on Socialist Salvador Illa changing into the area’s new president.
“I wished to be current throughout the investiture session and have the ability to train my proper to talk and vote,” Puigdemont mentioned in a video shared on X on Saturday. The previous regional chief mentioned that “it had turn out to be clear from the outset that the Division of the Inside had arrange a police operation” to stop him from getting into the Catalan parliament.
“Attempting to entry the parliament would have been equal to a voluntary give up, and my intention has by no means been to give up,” Puigdemont mentioned, accusing the judicial authorities of “taking part in politics.”
On Saturday, the Catalan authorities moved on with the procedures to kind a brand new authorities as newly elected President Illa formally took workplace throughout a ceremony during which he promised to “govern for everybody,” with respect to “the variety and plurality of the folks of Catalonia” and avoiding “divisive, demagogic and populist” approaches, nationwide media reported.
The members of the brand new authorities will likely be introduced subsequent week. The brand new president already mentioned throughout the election marketing campaign that the socialist mayor of Santa Coloma de Gramenet, Núria Parlon, would be the inside minister; and the previous director normal of the Catalan police drive who was faraway from his submit in 2017, Josep Lluís Trapero, will likely be reinstated.
