Carles Puigdemont, born in 1962, is a Catalan politician who served as the 132nd president of Catalonia from 2016 to 2017. He is a controversial figure due to his role in the Catalan independence movement and his subsequent self-exile in Belgium to avoid prosecution for organizing the unauthorized 2017 Catalan independence referendum.
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