This Thursday, August 8, the investiture session will be held in the Parliament of Catalonia whereby, if everything goes as normal, the socialist Salvador Illa will become the 133rd president in the history of Catalonia thanks to the support of his party, the PSC, ERC and the Comuns. An investiture that, however, hangs by a thread: the possibility that the plenary session will be suspended due to the possible arrest of Carles Puigdemontdeputy elected by Junts who after almost seven years of exile in Belgium has crossed the border with the intention of attending Illa’s investitureHe has been welcomed by a wave of Catalan separatists and has already made his first public statement in Barcelona: “I don’t know when we will see each other again,” he said on Passeig Lluís Companys.
Puigdemont consults Marcela Topor on each of his decisionsShe has been his life partner since the pro-independence politician fell in love with the Romanian more than twenty years ago, Philology student and actress, who came to Spain from Bucharest to participate in a theatre festival that depended on him.
Puigdemont, 61, and Topor, 47, were married more than two decades ago in an Orthodox manner. And after becoming Mrs. Pucho, she moved into journalism, of course, working in the media where her husband worked. She was hired as a presenter for the program Catalan Conectionsfrom Punt Avui TV.
When she arrived from Romania, her country of origin, she didn’t even speak Catalan, and she took an intensive course. Now, as you can imagine, she is the number one defender of her husband’s language and in her articles she urges Spain, which holds the rotating presidency of the EU council, to make Catalan an official language in Europe.
They have two daughters, María and Magali, who live with their mother in a luxurious 250-square-metre house in Villa Golf, in the town of Sant Julià de Ramis. It has a garden and three floors and the couple bought it in 2003.
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