Exiled separatist leader is likely to return to a very different Catalonia

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Nine years on from a failed independence push, former president Carles Puigdemont will find times have changed After years of legal wrangling, Spain’s constitutional court is expected to remove the last obstacle to the return of the former Catalan pr…

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  • Reported by The Guardian and published Mon, 05 Oct 2026 04:00:47 UTC.

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