Spanish far-right Vox party’s Secretary General Ignacio Garriga arrives to deliver a speech during a plenary session at the Parliament of Catalonia, in Barcelona on August 8, 2024. Catalonia’s parliament is to begin an investiture vote to elect a new leader without the presence of former Catalan leader Carles Puigdemont, who returned to Spain after seven year on the run. Shortly before, Puigdemont — who is the target of an arrest warrant over his role in Catalonia’s failed 2017 independence bid — addressed a crowd of supporters gathered at a nearby park, saying he had returned “to remind you that we are still here”. He then disappeared.
