http://www.aljazeera.com/news/2017/11/puigdemont-slams-eu-helping-coup-171108075719895.html

"..Puigdemont has said he is prepared to run as a candidate on December 21, but it is far from clear whether or not he will even be in the country by then.."

"..Spanish Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy and his Belgian counterpart Charles Michel are due to address legislators over the Catalan crisis after the deposed separatist leader, Carles Puigdemont, urged the European Union to stop supporting a "coup" against his region.

Earlier Puigdemont slammed the European Union for backing Rajoy's bid to quash Catalan secession, after calling on pro-independence parties to unite for next month's regional election.

"Will you accept the result of the Catalan referendum or will you continue to help Mr Rajoy in his coup d'etat?" Carles Puigdemont, who was dismissed by Madrid last month after the Catalan parliament declared unilateral independence, said in Brussels.

Puigdemont, who faces extradition on charges of rebellion and sedition, was speaking at an event attended by some 200 pro-independence Catalan mayors who had flown there for support.
Rajoy and Michel are both due to speak to their respective parliaments Wednesday on the worst crisis that Spain has known in 40 years of democracy. Catalan separatist associations and a trade union have called for a general strike in Catalonia, before a major demonstration on Saturday.."