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  Nothing quite like a Catalan regional election to show the world what a huge democratic deficit prevails in that part of Spain. High on my list of failed characters is Carlos Puigdemont, a man who would have been disciplined and almost certainly sacked as a senior executive of  any transparent business  or the leader of any truly democratic party, but resurrects because he stands for a movement that believes only in its own narrow nationalist interests and has projected himself, quiet falsely, as the martyr of a noble cause. …

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