Basha Changue | |
Native Name: | instead.--> |
Term Start: | 12 March 2021 |
Office2: | Councillor of Moià City Council |
Term Start2: | 15 June 2019 |
Term End2: | 2021 |
Birth Name: | Basharat Changue i Canalejo |
Birth Place: | Nou Barris, Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain |
Mawards: | is not set --> |
Awards: | is not set --> |
Basharat Changue i Canalejo (born 1984), better known as Basha Changue[1] [2] and informally as Basha Changuerra,[3] is a Catalan activist and politician who has served as a deputy in the Parliament of Catalonia since 12 March 2021.
Basharat Changue i Canalejo was born in 1984, in the Nou Barris district of Barcelona.[4] The daughter of an Equatoguinean father and an Andalusian mother, she studied interior design and social integration.[5] As an anti-racist and Afro-feminist activist, she is the promoter of the AfroFem Koop cooperative and a member of the Comunitat Negra Africana i Afrodescendent a Catalunya group.[3] She presided over the political organization.[6] She also collaborates in various media and has been councillor for the Popular Unity Candidacy (CUP) in Moià City Council.[7]
Ahead of the elections to the Parliament of Catalonia in 2021, she ranked 5th on the CUP-Guanyem list for the constituency of Barcelona and was elected as a member of the 13th Parliament of Catalonia.[8]
On 18 September 2022, she was chosen to head the broad list, of which the CUP is part, for the 2023 Barcelona City Council election.[9] She lost.