Salvador Illa's appointment comes as the region's former controversial leader Carles Puigdemont returned to his home state from exile.
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00:00Socialist Salvador Illa has been sworn in as Catalonia's new president at an inauguration
00:07ceremony in Barcelona.
00:09The new appointment ends over a decade of separatist rule in the region.
00:14The close ally of Spain's Prime Minister, Pedro Sanchez, secured the support of leftist
00:19parties earlier this week, guaranteeing his power.
00:22At the ceremony, Illa said he wanted to use his presidency to unite Catalans in the face
00:28of divisive agendas.
00:30Days before, the former president of Catalonia, Carles Puigdemont, briefly returned to Spain
00:36following a years-long hideout in Belgium and France.
00:40Puigdemont spearheaded the 2017 failed referendum for Catalonian independence and faces multiple
00:47criminal charges led by Spanish authorities.
00:50But the fugitive politician managed to once again escape Spanish police and revealed on
00:56social media he returned to Belgium.