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Miquel Iceta | |
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Minister of Culture and Sport | |
In office 12 July 2021 –21 November 2023 | |
Prime Minister | Pedro Sánchez |
Preceded by | JoséManuel Rodríguez Uribes |
Succeeded by | Ernest Urtasun (Culture) Pilar Alegría (Sport) |
Minister of Territorial Policy and Civil Service | |
In office 27 January 2021 –12 July 2021 | |
Prime Minister | Pedro Sánchez |
Preceded by | Carolina Darias |
Succeeded by | Isabel Rodríguez García (Territorial Policy) María Jesús Montero (Civil Service) |
Member of the Congress of Deputies | |
In office 17 August 2023 –6 December 2023 | |
Constituency | Barcelona |
In office 27 March 1996 –2 November 1999 | |
Constituency | Barcelona |
Member of the Parliament of Catalonia | |
In office 5 November 1999 –26 January 2021 | |
Constituency | Barcelona |
President of the Socialists' Party of Catalonia | |
Assumed office 19 December 2021 | |
Vice President | Núria Marín |
First Secretary | Salvador Illa |
Preceded by | Núria Marín |
First Secretary of the Socialists' Party of Catalonia | |
In office 13 July 2014 –19 December 2021 | |
Deputy | Eva Granados |
Preceded by | Pere Navarro |
Succeeded by | Salvador Illa |
Personal details | |
Born | Miquel Iceta Llorens 17 August 1960 Barcelona,Catalonia,Spain |
Political party | Socialists' Party of Catalonia |
Miquel Iceta Llorens (born 17 August 1960) is a Spanish politician who served as minister of Culture and Sport from July 2021 to November 2023 and as minister of Territorial Policy and Civil Service from January to July 2021.
He's one of the first openly gay politicians from Spain. [1] A member of the Socialists' Party of Catalonia,he served as member of the Parliament of Catalonia from 1999 to 2021,and he also represented Barcelona at the Congress of Deputies twice,from 1996 to 1999 [2] and from August to December 2023.
Born on 17 August 1960 in Barcelona,he began studying chemistry but abandoned his studies after a year;he then enrolled as an Economics student in the Autonomous University of Barcelona (UAB),from whence he was expelled after sitting his first year five times,thus reaching the maximum amount of repeats allowed by university regulations. [3] He then focused solely on politics. His earlier stint in the Partido Socialista Popular de Cataluña,which he had joined in September 1977, [4] had been followed a year later by joining the Juventud Socialista de Cataluña and the Partido de los Socialistas de Cataluña (PSC). [4] [5]
Elected in the 1987 municipal elections,he served as a councillor in the Cornelláde Llobregat Town Hall from 1987 to 1991. A politician trusted by Narcís Serra, [6] the latter,Vice-President of the Government,appointed him Director of the Analysis Department of the Cabinet of the Presidency of the Government, [7] a responsibility he held from 1991 to 1995,when he became Deputy Director of the Cabinet. [8]
Included as a candidate in number 7 of the list of the PSC to the Congress of Deputies for Barcelona in the general elections of 1996, [9] he was elected deputy for the sixth legislature. Iceta publicly declared his homosexuality in October 1999,during the campaign for the elections to the Parliament of Catalonia in 1999;he was then considered the first Spanish politician to do so. [8] Elected as a regional deputy in the October 1999 elections,his resignation from the Congress of Deputies became effective on November 2,1999.
In July 2008,he became a member of the Federal Executive Committee of the PSOE. He was a member of the paper for the reform of the current Statute of Autonomy of Catalonia. In July 2014,he was elected,through primary elections and without rivals,as the new Secretary General of the PSC with 85% of the votes,replacing Pere Navarro.
On 30 June 2015 he was elected PSC candidate for the presidency of the Generalitat de Catalunya for the regional elections of 27-S, [10] in which his party won 16 seats.
On 27 January 2021,Pedro Sánchez appointed him as minister of Territorial Policy and Civil Service of the Spanish government. Months later,he was appointed minister of Culture and Sport. He left the office on 21 November 2023.
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