13th June 2025

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Puigdemont announces ‘return journey from exile’ for Catalan investiture debate

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Former Catalan president Carles Puigdemont has announced that he is taking his ‘return journey from exile’ in order to attend the investiture debate taking place
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Pro-independence ERC party backs socialists to form government in Catalonia

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The Catalan pro-independence party Esquerra Republicana (ERC) agreed on Friday to support efforts by Spain’s socialists (PSOE) – and specifically the Catalan Socialists (PSC) –
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Countdown begins in Catalonia for possible new elections in mid-October

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The speaker of the Catalan Parliament, Josep Rull, said on Wednesday that he will give the assembly two months to form a new government or
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Pro-independence parties retain speaker in new Catalan Parliament

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Catalan pro-independence parties managed to retain the role of speaker in their region’s new parliament on Monday, despite losing their absolute majority in elections last
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Puigdemont will still seek to become Catalan president, despite ‘pro-Spain win’

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Former Catalan president Carles Puigdemont said on Monday that he would seek to form a pro-independence minority government in Catalonia despite a weekend electoral setback which
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Catalan pro-independence parties lose majority, as PSC socialists win elections

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Catalan pro-independence parties have lost their decade-long hold of power in Catalonia as the pro-union socialist PSOE party – the Catalan Socialists (PSC) in the
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Puigdemont says he will return to Spain if he can be elected as Catalan president

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Carles Puigdemont, the former Catalan president who fled the country after an unsuccessful bid for independence six years ago, stated on Thursday that he would
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After Feijóo fails in his bid to become Spain’s prime minister, what happens next?

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With Alberto Núñez Feijóo’s bid to become Spain’s prime minister definitively over after Friday’s second vote, socialist leader Pedro Sánchez, currently the acting prime minister
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Pere Aragonès voted in as Catalan President after ERC and JxCat reach agreement

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Pere Aragonès was voted as the 132nd president of Catalonia by the pro-independence majority in parliament on Friday 21 May, ending a three month political