Carles Puigdemont, who's been living in exile in Belgium since organising the illegal 2017 independence referendum in Catalonia, is running to become president of the Spanish region once again.
Local elections are set to take place in mid-May.
Our Southern Europe correspondent Giles Gibson has more.
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