Catalonia‘s parliament on Thursday confirmed Salvador Illa, an ally of Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez whose Socialists got here first in May’s regional election, as head of the Catalan authorities, ending greater than a decade of separatist rule.
However, in an indication of potential additional unease, Illa’s investiture was upstaged by separatist chief Carles Puigdemont who appeared at a rally in Barcelona, defying an arrest warrant after seven years of self-imposed exile, after which vanished earlier than police might arrest him.
Puigdemont instructed the group he aimed to revive the independence drive that plunged Spain right into a deep political disaster seven years in the past when Catalonia, below Puigdemont’s management, tried to secede from Spain following a referendum deemed unlawful by courts.
Source: www.anews.com.tr