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The Spanish government plans to appeal the nomination of ex-Catalan leader Carles Puigdemont as a candidate for president of Catalonia to the country's Constitutional Court, Spanish Deputy Prime Minister Soraya Saenz de Santamaria said Thursday, Xinhua reported.

In a press conference, she said the speaker of the Catalan regional parliament, Roger Torrent, from the pro-independence party ERC, could not propose Puigdemont for the investiture vote, it should be another person.

"He (Puigdemont) has an arrest warrant in Spain, which is incompatible with being at the parliament", Saenz de Santamaria said, adding that, "he would be arrested as soon as he enters Spanish territory."

The Spanish government has asked the Council of State for reports on the issue, as well as, on other matters such as the possibility of a long-distance investiture vote without Carles Puigdemont in the parliament.

Carles Puigdemont is currently in Brussels along with other former members of the Catalan government after the independence of Catalonia was declared and the Spanish government intervened the autonomy and called regional elections under the application of the article 155.

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