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It depends who you ask, and when.

For a few months he was a "hero" of sorts for the spanish right wing, since he was viscerally unionist (i.e., against catalan sovereignty), and this is a basic tenet of spanish right wing. Now that he has supported the current mayor of Barcelona to be re-elected, he has fallen out of favor (since the mayor is left wing and somewhat neutral on the independence question).

For left wingers and non-unionists, he's always been nuts.