Palma24/01/2018 00:00
"Spanish authorities are monitoring borders to make sure that fugitive Catalan separatist leader Carles Puigdemont does not sneak back into Spain to take up the presidency of the regional parliament again," reads a report on the latest developments in Catalonia. But could a man whose photograph has appeared on every newspaper front page in the country really sneak back into Spain without being noticed? If this is the case then it doesn't say much for Spanish border security.
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Spanish borders security ? Sorry we’re in the EU, there is no border control. A Benefit of free movement......not.
Catalonia doesn’t want him as President, only one of the losing parties in the last elections does. The real winner of these elections, Ines Arrimadas, should have been nominated, but due to the peculiar system we have in this country, where three losing parties are allowed to form government, such as here if you want a (bad) example, she never will be.
Another shallow, repetitious coverage of a highly important issue that if unresolved will impact greatly on the Spanish economy and thus on us as residents. Please provide us with fact not supposition.
Re ‘border security’: Spain doesn’t have borders within Schengen, i.e. with France and Portugal. That said, there’s no need to watch ’borders’ for just one man. Keeping a vigilant eye on the man himself and his movements should be enough.As for him ‘never becoming president if the Catalan parliament’ that is still open to debate amongst the judiciary who, I am sure, have a better grasp of Spanish legislation. Some appear to consider he could be elected if in ‘preventative custody’ and could even then attend parliament for the investiture. Whether that is possible or actually happens time will tell, but he could never be an effective president in those conditions. It’s time for another candidate to be proposed by the parties.