Curses! Foiled again!
to break Catalonia from Spain in 2017, was chosen to represent his separatist party in European Parliament elections in May, the party said on Sunday.
Puigdemont, who lives in self-imposed exile in Belgium, was selected by the pro-independence Junts per Catalunya (JxCat) party during a meeting to pick its candidates.
"We believe that the best way to continue internationalising the conflict and that Europe
...also known as Moslem Lebensraum...
understands what is happening in Catalonia... is that this candidacy be headed by Carles Puigdemont," Elsa Artadi, a JxCat politician in Catalonia’s regional parliament, said on Twitter.
The push by Puigdemont and his party to hold an independence referendum in October 2017 in defiance of a court ban sparked Spain’s deepest political crisis since its transition to democracy in the 1970s.