Spain, Catalan Parliament holds investiture session of Socialist Party candidate Salvador Illia

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*Former president of Catalonia Carles Puigdemont returned from exile after almost seven years *Carles Puigdemont could be arrested *Thousands of supporters rallied in support of Puigdemont

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00:00In Spain, the Parliament of Catalonia held the investiture session of the socialist Salvador

00:05Illia.

00:06In parallel, the former Catalan president, Charles Puigdemont, returned from exile after

00:11almost seven years and could be arrested by authorities.

00:15From Barcelona, our colleague Andrés Flores brings us more information.

00:22Exactly maximum tension here in Catalonia, where all the focus is on the investiture

00:26session of Salvador Illia of the Socialist Party.

00:30But however also the protagonism at this moment has the former president Puigdemont who reappeared

00:35in Barcelona after crossing the border without being arrested.

00:40We are talking that after six years and ten months Puigdemont has returned to Catalonia.

00:45His intention in principle seemed to be to participate in this plenary session of investiture.

00:50But however for the moment everything is uncertainty and it is not yet known if he will finally

00:55be arrested, if he will be presented on the spot.

01:00There was an event organized a few hours ago near the Triumphal Arch here in Barcelona

01:05where his supporters have demonstrated in favor, and the idea was also to generate a

01:09climate where he could walk those 1.3 kilometers that separated him from the place of the event

01:15to the Parliament of Catalonia where it would be held, where the investiture is held.

01:23This investiture that has 135 votes in principle, and it is necessary for Salvador Illia to

01:30get 68 votes to be invested.

01:35He has this number, yes, it is a very tight number, he has them with the support of Esquerra

01:40Republicana de Cataluña and also with Congress.

01:44But nevertheless nothing can fail in this account because if some of the deputies have

01:48some kind of disobedience or do not comply with the pact this investiture would fall.

01:54We are living moments of great attention and of course we will follow it very closely in

01:58this key moment of politics here in Catalonia.

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