Spain issues arrest warrant for Catalonia’s leader Carles Puigdemont.

Spain and Catalonia political crisis is seeing up and downs with Spain taking direct control and calling fresh elections

Now Spanish judge issued an EU arrest warrant for Catalonia’s deposed separatist leader Carles Puigdemont.

The warrant was issued as Puigdemont didn't appear for questioning over his role in the region’s tumultuous independence drive.

Spanish prosecutors want to charge Puigdemont, holed up in Belgium, with rebellion, sedition and misuse of public funds. On Thursday, the 54-year-old ignored a summons to appear before the same judge in Madrid.

The announcement added to anger and dismay in a second straight night of demonstrations in the wealthy north-eastern region, with protesters chanting and waving Catalan flags of red and yellow stripes with a white star.