Carlos Puigdemont holds the key to the future of Spain. If your party, Junts Per Cat, finally votes in favor of Pedro Sanchez at the investiture, the socialist leader has all the ballots to continue being the president of the Government of Spain.
For six years, the Catalan independentist has resided in Brussels, where he settled to avoid being arrested in Spain for the illegal referendum on October 1, 2018 held in Catalonia.
Now, what is Puigdemont’s house like in Belgium? It is located in Waterloo, a municipality located about twenty kilometers south of Brussels, the capital of the country and of the European Union. It has 500 square meters, two floors, an attic and a basement with a garage. It is located less than half a kilometer from the train station (in case you ever need to catch it fast).
The house is located in one of the most affluent areas of the Belgian capital. It is easily identified since the house is presided over by a European flag and a Catalan one.
Former Catalan president Carles Puigdemont has said that Sánchez will only have the votes of Junts in the eventual investiture if an agreement is reached on the Catalan “conflict” and not on his personal situation, and that the negotiation has been done without “pressure” and without practicing “political blackmail”.
On his personal situation, he also wrote this Saturday on Twitter: “In these five years and nine months that I have been in exile, I have received threats every week, I have been the subject of shameful smear campaigns, of disgusting articles about me and my family (. ..) I have been detained twice and tracking devices have been placed in my car; they have infected everything around me with Pegasus, including my wife’s cell phone”. The politician shares his life with Marcela Toporthe Romanian journalist with whom he married in 2020.
The Socialist Party of Pedro Sánchez did not win the general elections of 23-J, but thanks to its possible pacts with Sumar, EH Bildu and Junts Per Cat, among other parties, it has more seats than the right wing led by the PP of Alberto Núñez-Feijóo, who finds it difficult to reach agreements if Vox is part of his possible government. Of course, Sánchez would not benefit from the abstention of Junts Per Cat, Puigdemont’s party now chaired by Albert Batet. She would only be worth “yes”.