Albert Botran | |
|---|---|
| Botran in 2018 | |
| Member of the Congress of Deputies | |
| In office 3 December 2019 –16 August 2023 | |
| Constituency | Barcelona |
| Member of the Parliament of Catalonia | |
| In office 26 October 2015 –28 October 2017 | |
| Constituency | Barcelona |
| Member of Molins de Rei Municipal Council | |
| In office 2011–2015 | |
| Personal details | |
| Born | Albert Botran i Pahissa 14 January 1984 |
| Citizenship | Spanish |
| Party | Poble Lliure |
| Other political affiliations | Popular Unity Candidacy–For Rupture |
| Alma mater | Autonomous University of Barcelona |
| Occupation | Historian |
Albert Botran i Pahissa (born 14 January 1984) is a Spanish historian and politician from Catalonia and a former member of the Congress of Deputies of Spain. He was previously a member of the Parliament of Catalonia. [1]
Botran was born on 14 January 1984 in Molins de Rei,Catalonia. [2] [3] He has a degree in history and a master's degree in comparative history from the Autonomous University of Barcelona. [2] [3]
Botran has been active in the leftist Catalan independence movement since 2002 and helped found the Molins de Rei branch of Popular Unity Candidacy (CUP) in 2007. [3] [4] He was a member of the CUP's national secretariat from 2009 to 2013 and from 2018 to 2019. [2] [3] Botran works for the Òmnium Cultural. [3] [4] In 2010 he won the 24th Francesc Carreras i Candi Award for his work Pensar Històricament els Països Catalans. La Historiografia i el Projecte Nacional dels Països Catalans (1960-1985). [3] [5]
Botran contested the 2011 local elections as a Popular Unity Candidacy–Active People (CUP-PA) electoral alliance candidate in Molins de Rei and was elected. [6] [7] Botran was one of the signatories of the October 2014 Nous Temps,Noves Eines - Per la Independència,pel Socialisme,pels Països Catalans:Ni un pas Enrere’, manifesto by leftist Catalan nationalists. [8] [9] The manifesto led to the formation,in November 2014,of Poble Lliure of which Botran is a member. [3] [4] [10] He did not seek re-election at the 2015 local elections. [11]
Botran contested the 2015 regional election as a CUP candidate in the Province of Barcelona and was elected to the Parliament of Catalonia. [12] [13] In February 2017 Botran attended an event in Castellóde Farfanya marking the 30th death anniversary of Catalan independence activist JuliàBabia,a member of the Movement for Defence of the Land. [14] [15] As a consequence,in September 2017 the Spanish Attorney General started an investigation on charges of extolling terrorism against four members of Poble Lliure:Botran,Toni Casserras,Ferran Dalmau and Guillem Fuster. [16] [17] In December 2018 the Audiencia Nacional started investigating the case against the four and three others - Marcel·líCanet,Marcel Casellas and Josep Maria Cervelló. [18]
At the 2017 regional election Botran was placed 81st on CUP's list of candidates in the Province of Barcelona but the party only won three seats in the province and as a result he failed to get re-elected. [19] [20] He contested the 2019 November general election as a Popular Unity Candidacy–For Rupture candidate in the Province of Barcelona and was elected to the Congress of Deputies. [21] [22] In 2023 general elections he wasn't reelected.
| Election | Constituency | Party | Alliance | No. | Result | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2011 local [6] [7] | Molins de Rei | Popular Unity Candidacy | Popular Unity Candidacy-Active People | 4 | Elected | ||
| 2015 regional [12] [13] | Province of Barcelona | Poble Lliure | Popular Unity Candidacy | 5 | Elected | ||
| 2017 regional [19] [20] | Province of Barcelona | Poble Lliure | Popular Unity Candidacy | 81 | Not elected | ||
| 2019 November general [21] [22] | Province of Barcelona | Poble Lliure | Popular Unity Candidacy–For Rupture | 2 | Elected | ||
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