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MEPs have overwhelmingly agreed to strip immunity from the former president of Spain s Catalonia region, Carles Puigdemont, and two of his associates.
Puigdemont fled to Belgium in October 2017, fearing arrest after holding an independence referendum for Catalonia that the Spanish courts and its government said was illegal. He was later elected as a Spanish MEP.
The vote on Monday evening stripped him and two other Catalan MEPs of their immunity from prosecution and could pave the for their extradition. That would risk reopening the scars of separatism in Spain.
Here s what you need to know about the situation and where things could go from here.
Puigdemont: EU parliament lifts ex-Catalan leader s immunity
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image captionFormer Catalan President Carles Puigdemont (C), Toni Comín (L) and Clara Ponsatí left Spain after the 2017 referendum
The European Parliament has voted to waive the immunity of former Catalan leader Carles Puigdemont and two other Catalan separatist MEPs.
The politicians left Spain in 2017 following a failed independence referendum, which Madrid said was illegal.
The vote left the country facing its deepest political crisis in decades.
The decision could help Spain s bid to extradite the separatists, who have been charged with sedition.
All three reject the charges against them, which Mr Puigdemont described as a clear case of political persecution .
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EU parliament lifts Catalan ex-leader s immunity © Reuters Former Catalan President Carles Puigdemont (C), Toni Comín (L) and Clara Ponsatí left Spain after the 2017 referendum
The European Parliament has voted to waive the immunity of former Catalan leader Carles Puigdemont and two other Catalan separatist MEPs.
The politicians left Spain in 2017 following a failed independence referendum, which Madrid said was illegal.
The vote left the country facing its deepest political crisis in decades.
The decision could help Spain s bid to extradite the separatists, who have been charged with sedition.
All three reject the charges against them.
In 2019, Spain sentenced nine other Catalan leaders to between nine and 13 years in prison over their role in the independence vote.
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