Carles Puigdemont (born 1962)
Born 1962 CE.
Carles Puigdemont i Casamajó (Catalan pronunciation: [ˈkarləs ˌpudʒdəˈmon i ˌkazəməˈʒo] ; born 29 December 1962) is a Catalan politician and journalist. He has been the President of Together for Catalonia (Junts) since 2024, having previously held the office from 2020 to 2022. He served as the 130th President of the Government of Catalonia from 2016 to 2017. His government held an independence referendum, which culminated in the unsuccessful Catalan declaration of independence and his removal from office. He then served as a Member of the European Parliament (MEP) from 2019 to 2024. After education in Amer and Girona, he became a journalist in 1982, writing for various local publications and becoming editor-in-chief of El Punt. He was the director of the Catalan News Agency from 1999 to 2002 and the director of Girona's House of Culture from 2002 to 2004. Puigdemont's family were supporters of Catalan independence and Puigdemont became involved in politics as a teenager, joining the nationalist Democratic Convergence of Catalonia (CDC), the predecessor to the PDeCAT, in 1980.
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