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Newshour: Catalan Election Campaign Kicks Off

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05/12/2017 GMT

Catalan Election Campaign Kicks Off

BBC World Service - Newshour, Catalan Election Campaign Kicks Off

Leading candidates remain in prison and exile in the run-up to Catalonia's election

Leading candidates remain in prison and exile in the run-up to Catalonia's regional election.

Leading candidates remain in prison and exile as Catalan parties start campaigning for the regional election on 21 December. The Spanish Supreme Court has withdrawn a European arrest warrant for the former leader of the region, Carles Puigdemont, but he still faces arrest on charges of sedition were he to return to Spain.

Also in the programme: Georgia's former president, Mikheil Saakashvili, has been freed by his supporters, shortly after being arrested in Ukraine; and an insider's perspective on what has been happening at the US State Department.

(Image: Members of the "Junts per Catalunya" grouping at a press conference in Barcelona. Credit: AFP/Getty Images/Pau Barren)

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