The meeting between Catalan president Pere Aragonès and Spanish prime minister Pedro Sánchez, the day after the ECJ Advocate General endorsed Spanish Judge Pablo Llarena's thesis on the European Arrest Warrants (EAW), has caused different media to speculate on the possibility that the return of Catalan president in exile Carles Puigdemont was part of the agenda of the meeting between the two at La Moncloa palace. Both Aragonès and Puigdemont himself denied, once again, that this issue was at part of the dialogue with the Spanish state. That has not prevented statements from political leaders, including the president of Castilla-La Mancha, socialist Emiliano García Page, predicting Puigdemont's imprisonment if he returns to the Spanish state.
"They are itching for it to happen (they have been salivating over it for years), and they try to act as judges in politics. The separation of powers does not exist in Spain", denounced Puigdemont through a tweet in which he collected the words of Castilla-La Mancha's president, who predicted "there is only one possible return, to prison."
These statements made the pro-independence politician denounce a "systematic and widespread" violation of his fundamental rights by political leaders, and warned they will add it this to "the list", they are preparing to demonstrate there are "systemic and widespread deficiencies in the functioning of the Spanish judicial system", as requested by the ECJ Advocate General to accept the overturning of the EAW against the exiled Catalan politicians.
Shortly before, Puigdemont, through Twitter, refuted news according to which his situation would be addressed at the meeting between Sánchez and Aragonès. "Some still have not understood it," criticized the Catalan president in exile, who warned that every time someone "plays" with this idea he will disavow them. "Their 'happy solutions' should be sought elsewhere," he said.
Aragonès also denied this information in his appearance at the Catalan government's delegation, after his meeting with Sánchez, where he recalled that Puigdemont asked to be left out of any dialogue with the Spanish state. In today's meeting, Aragonès and Sánchez convened a new meeting of the dialogue table for the end of July.