The Executive Council of Catalonia or the Executive Government of Catalonia is the executive branch of the Generalitat of Catalonia. It is responsible for the political action,regulation,and administration of the government of the autonomous region.
The 2017 Catalan regional election was held on Thursday 21 December 2017 to elect the 12th Parliament of the autonomous community of Catalonia. All 135 seats in the Parliament were up for election. The election was called by Spanish prime minister Mariano Rajoy after the invocation of Article 155 of the 1978 Spanish Constitution to enforce direct rule in Catalonia and the subsequent dismissal of the Catalan government under President Carles Puigdemont. The three pro-Catalan independence parties won a slim majority of parliamentary seats,claiming 70 out of 135,but fell short of a majority in the popular vote by securing 47.6% of the share.
Carles Puigdemont i Casamajó is a Catalan politician and journalist from Spain. Since 2019 he has served as a Member of the European Parliament (MEP). A former mayor of Girona,Puigdemont served as President of Catalonia from 2016 to 2017 when he was removed from office by the Spanish Government following the unilateral Catalan declaration of independence. He is co-founder of the National Call for the Republic (CNxR),leader of the Together for Catalonia (JuntsxCat) electoral alliance and founder of the Together for Catalonia party.
The Catalan European Democratic Party,initially branded as the Catalan Democratic Party,was a liberal political party in Spain that supported Catalan independence. The party was founded in Barcelona on 10 July 2016 and dissolved on 28 October 2023. PDeCAT was regarded as the successor party to Democratic Convergence of Catalonia (CDC),which for most its history was a constituent party of the Convergence and Union (CiU) political formation.
The 2021 Catalan regional election was held on Sunday,14 February 2021,to elect the 13th/14th Parliament of the autonomous community of Catalonia. All 135 seats in the Parliament were up for election.
Dolors Bassa i Coll is an educator,psychopedagogist and Catalan politician who held the position of Minister of Labour,Social Affairs and Families in the Generalitat de Catalunya until Spain dismissed the Catalan government on 27 October 2017. She is known for her syndicalist career in the major Spanish trade union,Unión General de Trabajadores. Since March 2018 she was remanded in custody,without bail,by order of the Supreme Court of Spain,accused of sedition and rebellion. She was sentenced on October 14,2019,to 12 years in prison for sedition,as being responsible for devoting several thousand public schools as polling stations in the 1 October 2017 referendum. She was freed in June 2021 following a government pardon.
Together for Catalonia was an electoral and parliamentary alliance in Catalonia,registered as a political party in the interior ministry in July 2018,originally envisaged as a platform comprising the Catalan European Democratic Party (PDeCAT),successor of the late Democratic Convergence of Catalonia (CDC),and independents and centered around the candidacy of former Catalan president Carles Puigdemont ahead of the 2017 Catalan regional election. Some of these independents went on to form the Action for the Republic (AxR) political party,which is also part of the alliance in the Parliament of Catalonia.
Roger Torrent i Ramió is a Spanish politician and urban planner from Catalonia. A former mayor of the municipality of Sarriàde Ter in north-eastern Spain,Torrent was President of the Parliament of Catalonia from January 2018 until March 2021. Since 26 May 2021 he is the Minister of Business and Work of Catalonia.
Meritxell Borràs i Solé is a Catalan politician and pharmacist. Borràs served as Catalonia's Minister of Governance and Institutional Relations from June 2015 to October 2017 when she was removed from office following the Catalan declaration of independence.
Joaquim Torra i Pla,known as Quim Torra,is a Catalan lawyer and journalist. He served as President of the Government of Catalonia from 17 May 2018 to 28 September 2020,when the Supreme Court of Spain confirmed a court ruling by the High Court of Justice of Catalonia condemning him for disobeying the Central Electoral Board during the April 2019 general election,leading to his disqualification from office.
Elsa Artadi i Vila is a Spanish economist,academic and politician from Catalonia. Artadi is a member of the Parliament of Catalonia and was previously Minister of the Presidency and Government Spokesperson of Catalonia.
Miquel Buch i Moya is a Spanish politician from Catalonia,Minister of the Interior of the autonomous community between 2018 and 2020. He was previously mayor of Premiàde Mar,a municipality in north-eastern Spain.
DamiàCalvet i Valera is a Spanish politician from Catalonia and the current Minister of Territory and Sustainability.
Maria Teresa Jordài Roura is a Spanish politician from Catalonia and the current Minister of Climate Action,Food and Rural Agenda of Catalonia.
The 12th Parliament of Catalonia was the meeting of the Parliament of Catalonia,with the membership determined by the results of the 2017 regional election held on 21 December 2017 after its dissolution on 27 October in application of direct rule. The parliament met for the first time on 17 January 2018.
Meritxell Budói Pla is a Spanish politician and pharmacist from Catalonia. Budóis the current Minister of the Presidency and Government Spokesman of Catalonia. She was previously mayor of La Garriga.
Jaume Alonso-Cuevillas i Sayrol is a Spanish academic,lawyer and politician from Catalonia who currently serves as Member of the Parliament of Catalonia for the pro-independence party Together for Catalonia and as Second Secretary of the Parliament of Catalonia. He previously served as Member of the Congress of Deputies of Spain between May 2019 and March 2021.
Mireia Vehíi Cantenys is a Spanish sociologist and politician from Catalonia,who currently serves as Member of the Congress of Deputies of Spain. She was previously a member of the Parliament of Catalonia.
Together for Catalonia is a Catalan political party established in July 2020 by former Catalan president Carles Puigdemont,announced on 2 July as a result of the foundering of negotiations with the Catalan European Democratic Party (PDeCAT) over the re-organization of the post-convergent political space under the "Together for Catalonia" umbrella. The party's founding congress took place between 25 July and 3 October,after being launched on 18 July with the public presentation of its imagery and corporate identity by Elsa Artadi and Marta Madrenas.
Gemma Geis i Carreras is a Spanish academic and politician from Catalonia,former member of the regional Parliament of Catalonia and Catalan minister of Research and Universities of Catalonia between 2021 and 2022.
