| Carles Riera i Albert | |
| Parliament: | Parliament of Catalonia |
| Nationality: | Spanish |
| Party: | Popular Unity Candidacy |
| Education: | Sociology |
| Alma Mater: | Autonomous University of Barcelona Polytechnic University of Catalonia |
| Occupation: | Social and political activist |
| Profession: | Sociologist |
Carles Riera i Albert (born 1960) is a Catalan sociologist and politician.[1]
During the 1980s he was a member and spokesman for the Call to Solidarity in Defense of Catalan Language, Culture and Nation, in the 90s he was a member of the secretariat of the People's Unity Assembly and currently is a member of Endavant. In the Catalan elections held on 27 September 2015, he formed part of the Popular Unity Candidacy–Constituent Call coalition which won 10 seats in the 135-member Parliament of Catalonia. He led the Popular Unity Candidacy party in the 2017 Catalan elections, in which won 4 seats.[2] [3]