{"id":145243,"date":"2018-01-10T04:04:46","date_gmt":"2018-01-10T09:04:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=145243"},"modified":"2018-01-10T04:04:46","modified_gmt":"2018-01-10T09:04:46","slug":"catalan-separatists-agree-deal-to-re-elect-puigdemont","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2018\/01\/10\/catalan-separatists-agree-deal-to-re-elect-puigdemont\/","title":{"rendered":"Catalan separatists agree deal to re elect Puigdemont"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_145246\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-145246\" style=\"width: 620px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Carles-Puigdemont.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-145246\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Carles-Puigdemont.jpg\" alt=\"Catalonia's main separatist parties say they have agreed to re-elect fugitive Carles Puigdemont as president of the region later this month. (Photo: Carles Puigdemont i Casamaj\u00f3\/Facebook)\" width=\"620\" height=\"372\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Carles-Puigdemont.jpg 620w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Carles-Puigdemont-300x180.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-145246\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Catalonia&#8217;s main separatist parties say they have agreed to re-elect fugitive Carles Puigdemont as president of the region later this month. (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/KRLSPuigdemont\/photos\/a.1102598596498258.1073741829.940715642686555\/1567775553313891\/?type=3&amp;theater\">Photo<\/a>: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/KRLSPuigdemont\/\">Carles Puigdemont i Casamaj\u00f3\/Facebook<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>MADRID \u2014 Catalonia&#8217;s main separatist parties say they have agreed to re-elect fugitive Carles Puigdemont as president of the region later this month.<\/p>\n<p>Puigdemont, who has been in Brussels since he was sacked in October over an attempt to secede from Spain, faces immediate arrest if he returns home.<\/p>\n<p>A spokesman with Puigdemont&#8217;s Together for Catalonia ticket said that the separatist politician secured the backing of the left-republican ERC party Tuesday evening in Brussels.<\/p>\n<p>An ERC spokesman also confirmed the deal, adding that Puigdemont will propose to speak via video conference to the regional parliament later this month or have a fellow party lawmaker read the mandatory speech that candidates to the regional leadership need to deliver before voting.<\/p>\n<p>Both spoke anonymously because they weren&#8217;t authorized to be identified in news reports.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MADRID \u2014 Catalonia&#8217;s main separatist parties say they have agreed to re-elect fugitive Carles Puigdemont as president of the region &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":145246,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,17],"tags":[27400,36614,42671],"class_list":["post-145243","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","category-news-w","tag-carles-puigdemont","tag-catalan-separatists","tag-re-elect","mauthors-aritz-parra","mauthors-the-associated-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145243","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=145243"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145243\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/145246"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=145243"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=145243"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=145243"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}