, authoring football reports and other news. He started studying for a degree in Catalan philology at the University College of Girona , but never graduated .
His professional profile is that of a journalist. He was the editor - in- chief of El Punt, the director of Agència Catalana de Notícies , and the director of the newspaper Catalonia Today, which offers news about Catalonia in English . He is a member of the Catalan journalists ' association , and has published several books , such as Cata … uquè ? Catalunya vista per la premsa internacional [ Catalonia as seen by the foreign press ] (1994 ) and several essays about communication and new technologies .
He is a Catalan politician, who became the President of the Government of Catalonia on 12 January 2016. His current status is a matter of dispute following Catalonia 's unilateral declaration of independence from Spain on 27 October 2017. From the perspective of the Government of Spain he was removed from office by Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy on 28 October 2017. He studied Catalan philology at the University of Girona, which he later left, without graduating, to work in journalism. He left journalism to devote himself fully to politics in 2006 when CiU made him another offer: to take part in the candidacy for the Catalan Parliament. He is the first Catalan President to refuse to take the oath of loyalty to the Spanish constitution and the current monarch, Felipe VI. Puigdemont has been married since 2000 to Romanian journalist, Marcela Topor , and has two daughters. He speaks Catalan , French, Spanish and Romanian . ...
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