Catalan separatist leader Carles Puigdemont, who fled into exile in 2017, has moved from Belgium to the south of France to run in the early regional elections in Catalonia on May 12. At the start of the election campaign on Saturday in the small town of Elne in southern France, not far from the border with his homeland, Puigdemont presented the list of candidates for his conservative Junts party. The 61-year-old had announced he would run as the top candidate in late March, when he stated that “the most important goal we have set ourselves is to make the independence process a success.” On Sat…