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Events in the year 2022 in Andorra .
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Events in the year 2022 in Andorra .
Ongoing — COVID-19 pandemic in Andorra
Ràdio i Televisió d'Andorra, S.A., shortened to RTVA, is the public television and radio broadcaster in the Principality of Andorra. It operates a television channel, ATV, and two radio stations, RNA and AM, all of which broadcast in Catalan.
Lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) rights in Andorra have advanced significantly in the 21st century, and are now considered generally progressive. Civil unions, which grant all the benefits of marriage, have been recognized since 2014, and discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation is constitutionally banned. The General Council passed a bill on 21 July 2022 that would legalize same-sex marriage in 2023, and convert all civil unions into civil marriage. In September 2023, Xavier Espot Zamora, the Prime Minister of Andorra, officially came out as homosexual.
Futbol Club Andorra is a professional football club based in Andorra la Vella, Andorra, that currently competes in Primera Federación – Group 1, in the Spanish league system. The club was founded in 1942 and currently plays its home fixtures at Estadi Nacional. In spite of being based in the microstate of Andorra, the club, voluntarily affiliated to the Catalan Football Federation, has been allowed to compete in Spanish leagues since 1948.
Same-sex marriage has been legal in Andorra since 17 February 2023. Andorra first established stable unions on 23 March 2005, providing same-sex couples with some of the rights and benefits of marriage, and later enacted civil unions on 25 December 2014, offering a greater set of rights. On 21 July 2022, the General Council voted to open civil marriage to same-sex couples. The law was promulgated by Co-Prince Emmanuel Macron on 17 August 2022, and came into effect six months later.
Creand is a financial group in the Principality of Andorra founded in 1950. The group has a presence in Andorra, Spain, Luxembourg, the United States (Miami) and Panama.
The Principality of Andorra's honours system started developing very recently and it is still in development.
Xavier Espot Zamora is an Andorran judge and politician. He is a former minister of justice and the current prime minister of Andorra, serving since 16 May 2019.
Third Way is a conservative political party in Andorra formed by the Lauredian Union and former members of the Liberal Party. The party is led by Josep Pintat Forné.
Josep Maria Beal i Benedico was an Andorran politician who served as General Syndic (Speaker) of the General Council since 12 January 1990 until 15 February 1991, when he resigned suffering from a disease that would end up confining him to a wheelchair. He abandoned the first line of politics until 2003, when he was candidate in the 2003 local elections but unsuccessfully.
Events in the year 2020 in the Principality of Andorra.
The COVID-19 pandemic in Andorra was a part of the worldwide pandemic of coronavirus disease 2019 caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2. The virus was confirmed to have reached Andorra on 2 March 2020, when a 20-year-old man returned to the country from Milan, Italy. With a total population of 77,543, on 7 December 2020, the infection rate was 1 case per 11 inhabitants, and the death rate was 1 case per 994 inhabitants.
Guillem Areny Areny was an Andorran politician who served as a member of the Council General and mayor of La Massana.
Events in the year 2021 in Andorra.
Nuno Miguel Ribeiro de Araujo, a 17-year-old openly homosexual Portuguese boy, was beat to death by two Spaniard youths aged 20 and 22, Sergi Ruiz Lázaro and Domingo López Acedo, in an alley in Escaldes-Engordany, Andorra, in the early morning of April 14, 2000. This crime had a media repercussion in the country because of the brutal violence they exercised and the homophobic motivation of the crime.
The Committed Citizens is a social liberal Andorran political party founded in 2011 for the municipal elections in La Massana.
Events in the year 2023 in Andorra.
In the parliamentary elections in Andorra on 2 April 2023, the incumbent liberal-conservative coalition between Democrats for Andorra (DA) and Committed Citizens (CC) won an absolute majority led by Prime Minister Xavier Espot. This is the fourth legislature in a row in which DA governs the country. A new party, Concord, emerged in second place, taking the opposition leadership held by the Social Democratic Party since 2019, which fell to third place by losing four seats.
Andorra Forward is an Andorran political party founded on 18 November 2021 by deputy Carine Montaner Raynaud, who previously left the Third Way party.
Local elections in Andorra were held on 17 December to elect all councillors in the seven parishes of Andorra. Overall voter turnout was 54.75%, dropping over 1.7% in comparison to the 2019 elections.
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