Puigdemont relocates ex-president office to upscale Barcelona duplex

After the Constitutional Court approved an amnesty law, the Supreme Court withdrew the arrest order for former Catalan president Carles Puigdemont and ex-ministers Toni Comín and Lluís Puig. While Junts per Catalunya urges caution until magistrate Pablo Llarena definitively dismisses a corruption case, Puigdemont’s team began relocating his office. The former headquarters in the Gothic-quarter Palau Centelles was deemed too cramped, prompting a move to a duplex owned by the Generalitat on Doctor Roux street, near Via Augusta in Sarrià-Sant Gervasi.

The property, long vacant, required renovation before the office could be set up. Three staff members remain in Barcelona, handling requests and meetings for Puigdemont, who currently resides in Waterloo, Belgium. The relocation is framed as a logistical decision but also anticipates a swift return to Catalonia, where he would receive a security detail and benefit from the statutory provisions for former presidents.