The troubled lives of Catalan presidents are an echo of Catalonia’s troubles within Spain ǀ View

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The troubled lives of Catalan presidents are an echo of Catalonia’s troubles within Spain ǀ View

On Friday October 9, an unusual image was taken in Perpignan, the capital of French Catalonia. Three Catalan presidents, side by side, held a press conference to denounce that all three of them had been victims of the repressive workings of the Spanish state apparatus.None are the president of Catalonia any longer, according to Spanish law. All have been banned from holding public office, either during their tenure or just after their time as pr…