Madrid fights appointment to Puigdemont at court

madrid - The Spanish government is going to challenge the candidacy of Carles Puigdemont as leader of the Catalan region at the Constitutional Court in Madrid. That's what deputy prime minister Soraya Sáenz de Santamaría said on Thursday, according to the Spanish news agency Europa Press.

According to Madrid, Puigdemont can not again become a leader of a Catalan government, partly because there is an arrest warrant in Spain against him. The parliament of Catalonia put forward Puigdemont as a candidate for regional leadership.