Puigdemont pledges return to Catalonia if he is elected to European Parliament

Former Catalan president Carles Puigdemont says he will be back in Catalonia if he wins a seat in the European Parliament in the May 26 elections –on the basis that the EU would "guarantee his immunity".

Exiled in Belgium, the pro-independence leader said on Catalan RAC1 private radio that he would have immunity "from the moment" he was elected.

"From the moment the results are declared, the immunity works," he asserted.