MADRID: Catalonia's former president, a fugitive sought through Spain over a foiled secession bid, will travel to Denmark next week for a university debate regardless of the possible possibility of arrest, officers stated Friday.
Carles Puigdemont plans to make the go back and forth to Copenhagen as he tries to get his old activity again and step up the pressure on Spanish authorities, which have stated a fugitive abroad cannot be the Catalan regional president.
The University of Copenhagen introduced a debate for Monday in the Danish capital on "Catalonia and Europe at a Crossroads for Democracy." Janni Brixen, a media professional with the university's Faculty of Social Science, stated Puigdemont would attend it "in person."
A spokeswoman for Puigdemont's birthday celebration additionally showed that he was once making plans to travel to Copenhagen and attend the controversy "representing the legitimate government of Catalonia."
Puigdemont is being investigated through Spain for possible revolt, sedition and embezzlement connected to a unilateral declaration of independence remaining fall in the northeastern Spanish region of Catalonia.
A Spanish Supreme Court pass judgement on dropped an extradition request to Belgium in December after it became clear that authorities in Brussels would most likely agree to ship him again but would limited the crimes that he could be judged for in Spain.
The separatist politician still faces detention if he returns to Spain, but is unfastened to travel in other places until the pass judgement on re-activates the European and world arrest warrants against him. There was once no signal of that being in the works on Friday.
Lawyer Paul Bekaert, who has represented Puigdemont in previous extradition hearings in Belgium, declined to speak about his review of the risk that the go back and forth posed. The Danish Ministry of Justice additionally refused to comment.
Puigdemont is looking for to be again answerable for affairs in Catalonia even though it is from self-imposed exile in Belgium.
"If I have to choose between being an inmate or a president, I'd rather be a president, even from afar," he instructed Catalonia's public radio Friday.
"At least now I can do things that I wouldn't be able to do in prison," he stated, relating to the help that "new technologies" could provide.
The October secession strive led Spanish central authorities to take direct regulate of Catalonia, disband its regional cabinet and contact an early regional election.
The Catalan vote in December failed to break the political deadlock, granting separatists a narrow parliamentary majority that in idea would let them shape a government.
But with ousted Catalan Cabinet contributors under investigation, jailed or in Belgium and going through arrest if they return house, the regional parliament must come to a decision through the end of January whether to permit Puigdemont's re-election.
The chamber's laws are imprecise about what to do under such unparalleled state of affairs.
On Friday, Puigdemont stated separatist events had been learning whether parliamentary immunity could be invoked to permit his return with out being arrested.
Spain's central government has vowed to obstruct Puigdemont's reinstatement through difficult it in courts if vital and to keep direct regulate over the region till a new government takes over.
The host of the discussion board, Political Science Professor Mikkel Vedby Rasmussen, stated the controversy around the former Catalan president was once part of the explanation why the University of Copenhagen had made up our minds that a "healthy debate" was once wanted in an "open and mature environment."
"Danish society is very much driven by consensus and for that effect we engage in endless deliberations," Vedby Rasmussen instructed The Associated Press. "From that political perspective, both sides have been extremely confrontational, and that comes as something alien for Danish people who want to understand better what's going on in Catalonia."
Carles Puigdemont plans to make the go back and forth to Copenhagen as he tries to get his old activity again and step up the pressure on Spanish authorities, which have stated a fugitive abroad cannot be the Catalan regional president.
The University of Copenhagen introduced a debate for Monday in the Danish capital on "Catalonia and Europe at a Crossroads for Democracy." Janni Brixen, a media professional with the university's Faculty of Social Science, stated Puigdemont would attend it "in person."
A spokeswoman for Puigdemont's birthday celebration additionally showed that he was once making plans to travel to Copenhagen and attend the controversy "representing the legitimate government of Catalonia."
Puigdemont is being investigated through Spain for possible revolt, sedition and embezzlement connected to a unilateral declaration of independence remaining fall in the northeastern Spanish region of Catalonia.
A Spanish Supreme Court pass judgement on dropped an extradition request to Belgium in December after it became clear that authorities in Brussels would most likely agree to ship him again but would limited the crimes that he could be judged for in Spain.
The separatist politician still faces detention if he returns to Spain, but is unfastened to travel in other places until the pass judgement on re-activates the European and world arrest warrants against him. There was once no signal of that being in the works on Friday.
Lawyer Paul Bekaert, who has represented Puigdemont in previous extradition hearings in Belgium, declined to speak about his review of the risk that the go back and forth posed. The Danish Ministry of Justice additionally refused to comment.
Puigdemont is looking for to be again answerable for affairs in Catalonia even though it is from self-imposed exile in Belgium.
"If I have to choose between being an inmate or a president, I'd rather be a president, even from afar," he instructed Catalonia's public radio Friday.
"At least now I can do things that I wouldn't be able to do in prison," he stated, relating to the help that "new technologies" could provide.
The October secession strive led Spanish central authorities to take direct regulate of Catalonia, disband its regional cabinet and contact an early regional election.
The Catalan vote in December failed to break the political deadlock, granting separatists a narrow parliamentary majority that in idea would let them shape a government.
But with ousted Catalan Cabinet contributors under investigation, jailed or in Belgium and going through arrest if they return house, the regional parliament must come to a decision through the end of January whether to permit Puigdemont's re-election.
The chamber's laws are imprecise about what to do under such unparalleled state of affairs.
On Friday, Puigdemont stated separatist events had been learning whether parliamentary immunity could be invoked to permit his return with out being arrested.
Spain's central government has vowed to obstruct Puigdemont's reinstatement through difficult it in courts if vital and to keep direct regulate over the region till a new government takes over.
The host of the discussion board, Political Science Professor Mikkel Vedby Rasmussen, stated the controversy around the former Catalan president was once part of the explanation why the University of Copenhagen had made up our minds that a "healthy debate" was once wanted in an "open and mature environment."
"Danish society is very much driven by consensus and for that effect we engage in endless deliberations," Vedby Rasmussen instructed The Associated Press. "From that political perspective, both sides have been extremely confrontational, and that comes as something alien for Danish people who want to understand better what's going on in Catalonia."
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