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Spanish deputy PM: symbolic Catalan presidency 'ridiculous'

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Spanish deputy prime minister Soraya Saez de Santamaria said on Tuesday that investing self-exiled separatist leader Carles Puigdemont with a "symbolic" presidency of Catalonia from Belgium was a "ridiculous option". She said the only reason for the plan, which is being discussed by separatist parties, was to "save a man who has to be accountable to justice and has fled."

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