Carles Puigdemont
Details
Birth Date 29 Dec 1962
Place of Birth Girona, Catalonia, Spain
Personal Name Carles Puigdemont
Also known as
- Puigdemont
Carles Puigdemont is a Spanish MEP and former Spanish President of the Generalitat de Catalunya (Catalan autonomous government), a refugee fugitive in Belgium, he is known for proclaiming and canceling the Catalan Republic within 8 seconds and being the first autonomous president to have applied it to him article 155 of the Spanish Constitution.