Separatist leader Carles Puigdemont, who fled into exile in 2017, confirmed that he wants to run as the top candidate of his Junts party in the early regional elections in Catalonia on May 12. “I have decided to run for the Catalan parliament in the next election,” he told party members in the small town of Elne in southern France on Thursday evening, not far from the border with his homeland. “The most important goal we have set ourselves is to make the independence process a success,” Puigdemont asserted. The 61-year-old faces being arrested in Spain for his role in the illegal 2017 independ…