Carles Puigdemont

Quick Facts

Full Name	Carles Puigdemont
Occupation	Politician
Date Of Birth	Dec 29, 1962(1962-12-29)
Age	62
Birthplace	Amer
Country	Spain
Horoscope	Sagittarius

Carles Puigdemont Biography

Carles Puigdemont is one of the most popular and richest Politician who was born on December 29, 1962 in Amer, Spain. Polititician and journalist who was President of Catalonia between January 2016 and October 2017. After years of working in newspapers, he decided to pursue a career as a politician when he was invited by the Parliament of Catalonia in 2006.

Artur Ma was his predecessor in the office of President of Catalonia.

Carles Puigdemont i Casamajó (Catalan: [ˈkaɾləs ˌpudʒðəˈmon i ˌkazəməˈʒo] ( listen ) ; born 29 December 1962) is a Catalan pro-independence politician and journalist from Spain. He lives in self-imposed exile in Belgium, under threat of arrest if he returns to Spain. A former Mayor of Girona, Puigdemont served as President of the Government of Catalonia from January 2016 to October 2017 when he was removed from office by the Spanish Government following the unilateral Catalan declaration of independence. He is co-founder of the National Call for the Republic (CNxR) and leader of the Junts per Catalunya (JuntsxCat) electoral alliance.

As a teenager Puigdemont attended political meetings with his uncle Josep and helped found the Nationalist Youth of Catalonia. In 1980 he joined the Democratic Convergence of Catalonia (CDC), a conservative Catalan nationalist political party, now known as the Catalan European Democratic Party (PDeCAT).

He is the father of seven brothers. He married Marcela Topor in 2000. They have two children, Maria and Magali.

Carles Puigdemont Net Worth

Carles Puigdemont is one of the richest Politician from Spain. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Carles Puigdemont 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

At 16 years old, he became a reporter at the Diari de Girona newspaper. He was one of the founders of Nationalist Youth of Catalonia.

In 2017, he was forced to flee Belgium. He remained there until 2018. In 2018, he was able to travel again.

Puigdemont was born on 29 December 1962 in Amer, a village in the comarca of la Selva in the province of Girona in north-eastern Catalonia, Spain. The son of Francesc Xavier Puigdemont i Oliveras, a baker, and Francesc’s wife Núria Casamajó i Ruiz, he is the second of eight brothers. Puigdemont’s maternal grandmother was Andalusian. Puigdemont’s grandfather, who fought in the Spanish Civil War before fleeing to France, founded the Pastisseria Puigdemont in 1928. The Puigdemont family still own the bakery located in Amer’s main square. Puigdemont’s great-grandfather and his uncle Josep Puigdemont were mayors of Amer and were supporters of Catalan independence, as was Puigdemont’s father Xavier.

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Who is Carles Puigdemont Dating?

According to our records, Carles Puigdemont married to Marcela Topor. As of December 1, 2023, Carles Puigdemont’s is not dating anyone.

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In the 1990s Puigdemont took a year off work to study linguistic policies elsewhere in Europe. As a result, he started working on application of new technologies in the provision of news and founded the Catalan News Agency (ACN) which was established by the Generalitat de Catalunya in 1999. Puigdemont also founded the Catalonia Today, an English language magazine. Puigdemont was director of ACN until 2002, when the then-president of the Diputació de Girona, Carles Pàramo, offered him the position of director of the Girona cultural centre, the Casa de Cultura, a position he held until 2004.

Facts & Trivia

Carles Ranked on the list of most popular Politician. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in Spain. Carles Puigdemont celebrates birthday on December 29 of every year.

Puigdemont left journalism to devote himself fully to politics in 2006 when the Convergence and Union (CiU) electoral alliance invited him to be a candidate for the Parliament of Catalonia. Puigdemont contested the 2006 regional election as a CiU candidate in the Province of Girona and was elected. He was re-elected at the 2010, 2012 and 2015 regional elections, the latter as a Junts pel Sí (JxSí) electoral alliance candidate.

Top Facts about Carles Puigdemont

1. Carles Puigdemont is a former President of Catalonia.
2. He was born in Amer, Girona, Spain in 1962.
3. Puigdemont is a journalist by profession.
4. He served as Mayor of Girona from 2011 to 2016.
5. Puigdemont led the Catalan independence movement in 2017.
6. He fled to Belgium after being charged with sedition and rebellion.
7. Puigdemont was elected to the European Parliament in 2019.
8. He faces extradition back to Spain for his role in the independence movement.
9. Puigdemont advocates for Catalan self-determination and independence from Spain.
10. His political party is Junts per Catalunya (Together for Catalonia).

What did Carles Puigdemont do?

A former Mayor of Girona, Puigdemont served as the 130th President of Catalonia from 2016 to 2017 when he was removed from office by the Spanish Government following the unilateral Catalan declaration of independence.

Is Catalonia its own country?

Catalonia (/ˌkætəˈloʊniə/; Catalan: Catalunya [kətəˈluɲə]; Aranese Occitan: Catalonha [kataˈluɲa]; Spanish: Cataluña [kataˈluɲa]) is an autonomous community of Spain, designated as a nationality by its Statute of Autonomy.

Does Catalonia have its own flag?

Nine alternating horizontal stripes of yellow and red. The senyera pattern is currently in the flag of four Spanish autonomous communities (Catalonia, Aragon, the Balearic Islands and the Valencian Community), and is the flag of the historically Catalan-speaking city of Alghero (Catalan: L’Alguer) in Sardinia.

Is Barcelona in Catalonia or Spain?

Barcelona (/ˌbɑːrsəˈloʊnə/ BAR-sə-LOH-nə, Catalan: [bəɾsəˈlonə], Spanish: [baɾθeˈlona]) is a city on the coast of northeastern Spain. It is the capital and largest city of the autonomous community of Catalonia, as well as the second most populous municipality of Spain.