| Carles Campuzano | |
| Office: | Minister of Social Rights of Catalonia |
| Term Start: | 10 October 2022 |
| Term End: | 12 August 2024 |
| President: | Pere Aragonès |
| Predecessor: | Violant Cervera |
| Successor: | Mónica Martínez Bravo |
| Office1: | Member of the Congress of Deputies of Spain |
| Constituency1: | Barcelona |
| Term Start1: | 20 March 1996 |
| Term End1: | 5 March 2019 |
| Office2: | Member of the Parliament of Catalonia |
| Constituency2: | Barcelona |
| Term Start2: | 3 April 1992 |
| Term End2: | 26 September 1995 |
| Office3: | Member of Vilanova i la Geltrú Municipal Council |
| Term Start3: | 1987 |
| Term End3: | 1991 |
| Birth Name: | Carles Campuzano i Canadès |
| Birth Date: | 12 July 1964 |
| Birth Place: | Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain |
| Alma Mater: | University of Barcelona |
| Footnotes: | carlescampuzano.cat |
Carles Campuzano i Canadès (born 12 July 1964) is a Catalan politician and a former member of the Congress of Deputies of Spain and the Parliament of Catalonia.
Campuzano was born on 12 July 1964 in Barcelona, Catalonia.[1] [2] He has a degree in law from the University of Barcelona.[3] [4] Campuzano joined the Nationalist Youth of Catalonia (JNC) in 1981 and was a member of its National Executive Committee from 1984 as well as its secretary-general (1989–94) and president (1994-96).[3] [4] He was one of the founders of the National Student Federation of Catalonia (Federació Nacional d'Estudiants de Catalunya, FNEC).[3] Campuzano joined the Democratic Convergence of Catalonia (CDC) in 1983 and was a member its national council.[1] [3]
Campuzano worked as technical assistant in the Generalitat de Catalunya's Department of Presidency between 1986 and 1992.[3] [4] [5]
Campuzano was a member of Vilanova i la Geltrú Municipal Council from 1987 to 1991 and Garraf County Council from 1991 to 1992.[3] [4] He contested the 1992 regional election as a Convergence and Union (CiU) electoral alliance candidate in the Province of Barcelona and was elected to the Parliament of Catalonia.[6] [7] Campuzano did not contest the 1995 regional election but was nominated as the CiU's number one substitute candidate in the Province of Barcelona.[8]
Campuzano contested the 1996 general election as a CiU candidate in the Province of Barcelona and was elected to the Congress of Deputies.[9] [10] He was re-elected at the 2000, 2004, 2008, 2011, 2015 and 2016 general elections.[11] [12] [13] [14] [15] [16] [17] [18] [19] [20] [21] [22] Campuzano has been spokesperson for the Catalan European Democratic Party (PDeCAT) in the Congress of Deputies since April 2017 and was a member of the Spanish delegation in the Parliamentary Assembly of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE).[1] [4] [23] Despite having been proposed by its party to be the main candidate of Together for Catalonia to seek the April 2019 Spanish general election,[24] he wouldn't be chosen in the end,[25] being replaced by Laura Borràs as the main candidate by Barcelona.[26] Eventually, Carles Campuzano announced that he would be leaving the PDeCAT because of differences on its political ideology and project.[27] [28]
Campuzano is chairman of the Associació Catalana de Solidaritat i Ajuda als Refugiats (Catalan Association of Solidarity and Refugee Aid, ACSAR Foundation) and a member of Òmnium Cultural, Greenpeace and Obra Cultural Balear de Mallorca.[1] [3]
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