Puigdemont was sacked as Catalonia's president last October after the region declared independence from Spain. He fled to Brussels shortly after, where he remains in self-imposed exile.
Last week Puigdemont supporters raised the possibility of his taking power again while still physically in Brussels.
Sources cited in a news story by the Financial Times indicated he was "planning to preside over the region from afar, potentially via video calls."
Catalonia's separatist parties won a slim majority in snap regional elections last month in what was seen as a setback to the Spanish government.
Catalan separatist politicians said last week that it would try to re-elect Puigdemont as regional leader, prompting speculation that Puigdemont would try to govern Catalonia via video chat, Reuters reported.
Spanish government spokesman Inigo Mendez de Vigo said, according to Reuters: "Parliamentary rules are very clear. They do not contemplate the possibility of a (parliamentary) presence that is not in person.
"This aspiration is a fallacy, it’s totally unrealistic and it goes against the rule books and common sense."
The original article was published in Business Insider.
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