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Puigdemont mulls return to Catalonia after win despite imminent arrest
Published Sun, Dec 24, 2017 · 09:50 PM
Barcelona
OUSTED Catalan president Carles Puigdemont was weighing up whether to return to the region, where he faces arrest, close aides said on Saturday, after pro-independence parties defeated Spain's central government in pivotal elections.
Mr Puigdemont campaigned from Brussels, where he sought self-imposed exile after he was sacked by Madrid and a Spanish court charged him with rebellion, sedition and misuse of public funds.
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