Carles Puigdemont Age, Political Journey, Wife, Family, Biography & More
Some Lesser Known Facts About Carles Puigdemont
- Does Carles Puigdemont smoke?: Not Known
- Does Carles Puigdemont drink alcohol?: Yes
- Carles developed his professional career as a journalist at ‘El Punt,’ where he later became the editor-in-chief and the general director of ‘Catalonia Today,’ a daily newspaper in English which he helped launch.
- Carles was named after his grandfather, Carles Casamajó, who fled to France at the end of the Spanish Civil War and lived in various refugee camps before disappearing in 1943. Since then the family hasn’t found any trace of him.
- In his hometown Girona, textiles are the dominant industry. Politics aside, his family is best known locally for its patisserie.
- Carles is a supporter of local team Girona FC, who won promotion to La Liga for the first time in the club’s history in the summer of 2017. During the match days, he can sporadically be seen in the club’s executive box.
- Carles is a polyglot; he can speak Catalan, Spanish, French, Romansh fluently.
- Carles and his wife Marcela Topor met at a local festival in Girona for the first time.
- Carles’s current status is a matter of dispute following Catalonia’s unilateral declaration of independence from Spain on October 27, 2017.
- On October 30, 2017, it was found that Puigdemont and some of his officials sacked by the government, had fled to Belgium in a move to escape action from the Spanish judiciary, as the Spanish Attorney General José Manuel Maza announced a criminal complaint against them for rebellion, sedition, and embezzlement.