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Catalan president in exile, Carles Puigdemont, has warned the Spanish prime minister, Pedro Sánchez, that "in the coming weeks" his PSOE government could lose its majority in Spain's Congress if it does not present a plan for Catalonia. "The time is up ", warned Puigdemont at a lecture in the Faroe Islands.

The exiled leader told his audience that Sánchez has had sufficient time margin to give a "response" to the Catalan crisis and he affirmed that the head of the Spanish executive has shown that he is "incapable" of doing so. "When we decided to support him we expected a new formula, we did not expect to see a kind of Rajoy 2.0", he added. The Sánchez government depends on the support of the Catalan pro-independence parties for its razor-thin majority in the Spanish lower house.

Puigdemont visited the Faroe Islands to take part in a conference on self-determination and took the opportunity to restate that in Spain, there are political prisoners. Representatives of the Faroe Islands, Scotland and New Caledonia - all present at the conference - undertook to call for the release of the Catalan independence leaders at international level.

The exiled president, along with other Catalan independence movement leaders in exile or in prison, is facing charges of rebellion and misuse of public funds arising from last year's referendum and push towards Catalan independence. Puigdemont is able to travel around Europe with some freedom following Germany's rejection of the demand for his extradition by Spain, earlier this year. A German court rejected the Spanish charge of rebellion as valid grounds for extradition of the Catalan president, and Spain then withdrew the European arrest warrant it had issued for him.