The Generalitat de Catalunya,or the Government of Catalonia,is the institutional system by which Catalonia is self-governed as an autonomous community of Spain. It is made up of the Parliament of Catalonia,the Presidency of the Generalitat de Catalunya,and the Executive Council of Catalonia. Its current powers are set out in the Statute of Autonomy of Catalonia of 2006.
Convergence and Union was a Catalan nationalist electoral alliance in Catalonia,Spain. It was a federation of two constituent parties,the larger Democratic Convergence of Catalonia (CDC) and its smaller counterpart,the Democratic Union of Catalonia (UDC). It was dissolved on 18 June 2015.
The Democratic Convergence of Catalonia,frequently shortened as Convergence was a Catalan nationalist,liberal political party in Catalonia (Spain),currently still existing without any political activity.
The Democratic Union of Catalonia,frequently shortened as Union,was a regionalist,Christian-democratic political party in the Catalonia region of Spain existing between 1931 and 2017. Together with Democratic Convergence of Catalonia (CDC),they formed the Convergence and Union (CiU) alliance and federation from 1978 until its dissolution in 2015,under which they would rule the government of Catalonia for almost three decades during the recent Spanish democratic period.
Artur Mas i Gavarró is a Catalan politician. He was president of the Government of Catalonia from 2010 to 2015 and acting president from September 2015 to 12 January 2016.
Pere Esteve i Abad was a Catalan Spanish politician,belonging to the political organisation Catalunya 2003,who became Deputy of Trade,Tourism and Consumer Affairs at the Catalan regional Government proposed by the Republican Left of Catalonia (ERC) party,with which he ran to the autonomic elections of the 2003. He resigned in October 2004 for health reasons.
The Parliament of Catalonia is the unicameral legislature of the autonomous community of Catalonia. The Parliament is currently made up of 135 members,known as deputies,who are elected for four-year terms or after extraordinary dissolution,chosen by universal suffrage in lists of four constituencies,corresponding to the Catalan provinces. The Parliament building is located in Ciutadella Park,Barcelona.
JoséMontilla Aguilera is a Spanish politician who is currently a member of the Spanish Senate. He was the 128th President of Generalitat de Catalunya. He became the First Secretary of the Socialists' Party of Catalonia on 18 June 2000,and a member of the Federal Executive Committee and the Federal Committee of the Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE) on 23 July 2000. He served as Minister of Industry,Tourism and Trade in the government of JoséLuis Rodríguez Zapatero from 18 April 2004 until 9 September 2006. He is married and has five children. On 29 November 2010 he announced he would not stand again for the post of First Secretary of the PSC due to his party's having obtained its worst-ever results in the 2010 election.
Joana Ortega i Alemany was the vice president of the government of the Generalitat de Catalunya and Counsellor of Government and Institutional Relations from 2010 until 2015. She has also been a deputy at the Parliament of Catalonia from 2006 to 2015. She was the first woman who has occupied the seat of vice president.
Francesc Homs Molist is a Spanish politician and Minister of the Presidency and Spokesperson of the Government of Catalonia.
Neus MuntéFernández is a pro-Catalan independence Spanish politician.
Ramon Tremosa i Balcells is a Catalan economist and politician,professor at the Department of Economic Theory at the University of Barcelona,where he obtained his Doctorate about the influence of macroeconomic policy in the Catalan manufacturing industry. From 2009 onwards he has been independent MEP for Convergència i Unióand has been re-elected in 2014. He is author of various books and academic articles about monetary politics,fiscal federalism and regional economics.
Pere Macias i Arau,is a Catalan politician,deputy to the Parliament of Catalonia and to the Parliament and senator.
The 1980 Catalan regional election was held on Thursday,20 March 1980,to elect the 1st Parliament of the autonomous community of Catalonia. All 135 seats in the Parliament were up for election. This was the first regional election to be held in Catalonia since the Spanish transition to democracy and the second democratic regional election in Catalan history after that of 1932.
United to Advance is a Catalan centrist and Christian democratic political party founded in June 2017 by former members of the defunct Democratic Union of Catalonia (UDC) and non-independentist Catalan nationalists. The party defines itself as moderate Catalan nationalist and opposes Catalan independence.
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.
Josep Enric Millo i Rocher,is a Spanish politician for PP.
Francesc de Paula Gambús i Millet was a Spanish politician who served as a Member of the European Parliament.
Joan Maria Pujals i Vallvé is a Catalan politician,counselor of the Generalitat of Catalonia and a Member of the Parliament of Catalonia in the fourth,fifth and sixth legislatures.
The Nationalist Party of Catalonia is a Catalan nationalist and liberal political party in Catalonia. The party was established on 12 May 2020 by former Catalan European Democratic Party (PDeCAT) coordinator-general Marta Pascal. It held its founding congress on 27 June 2020,under a political manifesto in which they announce their commitment to an agreed referendum as the solution for the issue of Catalan independence.
