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MADRID – Catalonia’s deposed leader is now out of a job “no matter what he says” but could run in December’s early regional election if he hasn’t been imprisoned by then, Spain’s foreign minister said Sunday.
Alfonso Dastis told The Associated Press that Catalonia’s civil servants won’t recognize former regional leader Carles Puigdemont’s authority if he ignores the Spanish government’s orders and tries to come back to work on Monday.
“If he wants to live in a parallel universe he may go on, but nobody, I think, is going to obey him,” Dastis said in an interview in Madrid.
In an unprecedented move, Spain’s central government took direct control of the northeastern region of Catalonia after the regional parliament voted Friday to declare independence from Spain. Puigdemont hasn’t said whether he will leave office voluntarily but he appeared on regional television Saturday urging Catalans to peacefully resist the takeover.
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