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Carles Puigdemont has said in a leaked private message to an ally that his drive to create a new independent Catalan republic was over and that the Spanish government had won.

The former regional leader sent a series of gloomy messages to an ex-cabinet colleague on Tuesday night, which were captured by chance by a cameraman for the Telecinco television station.

“I suppose you understand that this is over . . . we have been sacrificed by our people, at least I have,” Mr Puigdemont wrote to Toni Comín, the former regional health minister, just hours after a Catalan parliamentary session to re-elect him as leader was indefinitely postponed.

This postponement came after days of pressure from the Spanish courts, which ruled over the weekend that Mr Puigdemont could not be re-elected as Catalan leader because he was a fugitive from Spanish justice living in Brussels.

Mr Puigdemont fled to Belgium in October after spearheading an illegal and unsuccessful push for independence. He faces charges of rebellion and sedition if he returns to Spain.

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