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Ramon Espadaler

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Ramon Espadaler
Official portrait, 2024
Minister of Justice and Democratic Quality of Catalonia
Assumed office
12 August 2024
PresidentSalvador Illa
Preceded byGemma Ubasart
Minister of Home Affairs of Catalonia
In office
27 December 2012 – 22 June 2015
PresidentArtur Mas
Preceded byFelip Puig
Succeeded byJordi Jané [ca]
Minister of the Environment and Housing of Catalonia
In office
20 November 2001 – 20 December 2003
PresidentJordi Pujol
Preceded byFelip Puig
Succeeded bySalvador Milà
Member of the Parliament of Catalonia
Assumed office
17 January 2018
ConstituencyBarcelona
In office
5 December 2003 – 16 April 2013
ConstituencyBarcelona
In office
3 April 1992 – 25 January 2000
ConstituencyBarcelona
Personal details
Born
Ramon Espadaler Parcerisas

(1963-09-02) 2 September 1963 (age 61)
Vic, Catalonia, Spain
CitizenshipSpanish
Political partyUnited to Advance (since 2017)
Other political
affiliations
UDC (1989–2017)
Alma materAutonomous University of Barcelona

Ramon Espadaler Parcerisas (born 19 September 1963 in Vic, Catalonia, Spain[1]) is a Spanish politician. He is married and has three children.

Early life and education

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He gained a BA in geography and history from the University of Barcelona.[1] He also studied political science and sociology at the Autonomous University of Barcelona.

Political career

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Espadaler has been a member of the Catalan Parliament from 1992 to the present, except for a period between January 2000 and 2003.[1] During that time, he held two government posts. He was first appointed director general for local government at the Ministry for Governmental Affairs and Institutional Relations.[1] The following year he became minister for the environment, a post he held until 2003.[1]

From 2010 to 2012, he was deputy spokesman for the CiU, Catalonia's current ruling coalition, at Catalonia's Parliament. The CiU was then the main opposition group. He sponsored bills 7/2011 (on financial and tax measures), 9/2011 (on the promotion of business activities), and 5/2012 (on financial, tax, and administrative measures, and setting up of a tax on hotel stays). He had previously served as deputy mayor of Vic (1999-2001), and as deputy mayor of Sant Quirze de Besora, a smaller nearby town (1991-1999).[1]

Espadaler has been a Catalan representative at the Congress of Local and Regional Authorities of the Council of Europe. He has authored a number of history papers, together with articles in the local and national press.

A member of the Democratic Union of Catalonia (UDC) since 1988,[1] Espadaler chairs its national council since 2003. The UDC is a Christian-Democrat party founded in 1931, and the CiU's junior partner. Past party posts include president of the Barcelona Province chapter, secretary for local government affairs at the ruling council, and secretary general of the ruling council in 2001–2002.

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