Charles Puigdemont called Salvador Illa after his brief return to Catalonia and subsequent flight. This has been confirmed by sources ranging from Junts to laSexta, which indicate that it was a “courtesy call”.
Last August, while Parliament celebrated the full inauguration of Illa, Puigdemont reappears in Barcelona after fleeing Spain for seven years and after briefly plunging into the masses – “I am here to remind you that we continue, because we do not have the right to resign”, he shouted to his supporters -, he disappeared without being arrested.
An escape that triggered criticism of the actions of the Mossos d’Esquadra -which they later admitted”errors“in the police system – and which, as it later emerged, involved a calculated plan so much so that the former president fled and managed to escape the arrest warrant which still hangs over him.
Today, almost two months later, since Puigdemont’s party confirmed that this He called the new president out of “courtesy”after stealing the show on Inauguration Day.
