investiture

The Princess of Wales has embraced a teenage girl with an aggressive form of cancer during an an investiture at Windsor Castle.

Mr Puigdemont's disruptive appearance near the Catalan parliament in Barcelona was moments before the investiture of Socialist Salvador Illa as the new Catalan president.

On Thursday morning, Mr Puigdemont briefly addressed hundreds of supporters who gathered near the Catalan parliament in Barcelona, shortly ahead of the expected investiture of a new head of the Catalan government.

Mr Puigdemont has said he intends to return to Spain for an investiture vote in the region’s parliament, which is likely to take place in June.

The amnesty law was a condition of the parliamentary support that JxCat and ERC gave to Mr Sánchez in his investiture, allowing him to form a new central government last November.