CATALONIA: Spanish PM orders court to block Puigdemont’s nomination as regional president

Plans by former Catalan regional President Carles Puigdemont to resume his post as regional president following his nominations has been blocked by the Spanish government.

Reports say Spanish Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy has asked the Constitutional Court to block Puigdemont who was supposed to resume his post as Catalan president on January 22.

The move comes after the Spanish government’s Council of Ministers, headed by Rajoy, announced late Thursday night it will attempt to block the nomination.

Read also: Self-exiled Catalonia leader calls for new talks with Spain

Two weeks ago, the Spanish government rejected plans by Puigdemont to rule remotely from his self-imposed exile in Brussels after he suggested that he could be re-elected as the region’s president.

The Spanish government said he could not rule from Brussels either. “He won’t be president (of Catalonia),” Inigo Mendez de Vigo, who is government spokesman and Minister of Education, Culture and Sport, told Reuters.

The Catlonia leader and five of his ex-ministers all traveled to Belgium following a unilateral declaration of independence in the Catalan parliament on Oct. 27, considered illegal by Spanish courts.

 

 

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