Joan Tardà Explained

Joan Tardà
Office1:Member of the Congress of Deputies of Spain
Constituency1:Barcelona
Term Start1:30 March 2004
Term End1:5 March 2019
Office2:Member of Cornellà de Llobregat Municipal Council
Term Start2:1979
Term End2:1983
Term Start3:1999
Term End3:2004
Birth Name:Joan Tardà i Coma
Birth Date:26 September 1953
Birth Place:Cornellà de Llobregat, Catalonia, Spain
Citizenship:Spanish
Party:Republican Left of Catalonia
Otherparty:Republican Left of Catalonia–Sovereigntists

Joan Tardà i Coma (born 26 September 1953) is a Catalan teacher and politician from Spain. He is a former member of the Congress of Deputies of Spain.

Early life and family

Tardà was born on 26 September 1953 in Cornellà de Llobregat, Catalonia.[1] [2] He is the son a bricklayer and a cinema ticket seller from Cornellà de Llobregat.[3] From the age of twelve Tardà worked at the same cinema as his mother.[3] He has a Master of Arts degree.[1] [4]

Tardà was a member of Red Flag until 1974.[4] [3] He was a member of the Unified Socialist Party of Catalonia (PSUC) from 1974 to 1976 when he joined the newly formed Left Nationalists (NE).[2] Following the dissolution of NE Tardà joined the Republican Left of Catalonia (ERC) and was president of its Cornellà branch from 1996 to 1999.[2] He was also a member of Assemblea de Batlles and the Committee of Solidarity with the Catalan Patriots (Comitès de Solidaritat amb els Patriotes Catalans).[2]

Career

Tardà and other teachers taught Catalan after school as the Fascist Francoist dictatorship had banned the teaching of Catalan in schools.[3] He has taught Catalan language and literature at the IES Institut Esteve Terradas secondary school since 1980.[1] [3]

Tardà was elected to Cornellà de Llobregat Municipal Council at the 1979 local election as an independent PSUC candidate, serving until 1983.[2] [3] He contested the 1999 local elections as a Republican Left of Catalonia-Acord Municipal (ERC-AM) electoral alliance candidate in Cornellà and was re-elected.[5] [6] He was re-elected at the 2003 local election.[7] [8] He resigned in September 2004.[2]

Tardà contested the 2004 general election as an ERC candidate in the Province of Barcelona and was elected to the Congress of Deputies.[9] [10] He was re-elected at the 2008, 2011, 2015 and 2016 general elections.[11] [12] [13] [14] [15] [16] [17] [18]

In March 2019 Tardà announced that he would not seek re-election at the next general election and would quit national politics.[19] At the 2019 general election Tardà was placed 32nd on the Republican Left of Catalonia–Sovereigntists electoral alliance's list of candidates in the Province of Barcelona but the alliance only managed to win eight seats in the province and as a result he failed to get re-elected to the Congress of Deputies.[20] [21]

Personal life

Tardà's partner Empar Fernández is a history teacher.[3] They have two children.[1] [3]

Electoral history

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Constituencyscope=col colspan="2"Partyscope=col colspan="2"Alliancescope=colNo.scope=colResult
Elected
Republican Left of Catalonia-Acord Municipal 1 Elected
Republican Left of Catalonia-Acord Municipal 1 Elected
3 Elected
2 Elected
2 Elected
2 Elected
2 Elected
32 Not elected

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Members: XII Legislatura (2016-2019) - Tardà i Coma, Joan . . 26 December 2018 . Madrid, Spain . Spanish.
  2. Web site: Joan Tardà . 26 December 2018 . . Barcelona, Spain . Catalan.
  3. News: Hinojosa . Silvia . El veterano de ERC que enciende el Congreso . 30 December 2018 . . 17 December 2016 . Barcelona, Spain . Spanish.
  4. News: Jabois . Manuel . Joan Tardà va a la muntanya . 26 December 2018 . . 21 October 2018 . Madrid, Spain . Catalan.
  5. Administració Electoral: Junta Electoral de Zona de l'Hospitalet de Llobregat . . 12 May 1999 . LXI . 113 . 105 . 12 June 2018 . . Barcelona, Spain . Catalan .
  6. Web site: Consulta de Resultados Electorales: Municipales / Junio 1999 - Mun. Cornellà de Llobregat . . 26 December 2018 . Madrid, Spain . Spanish . 26 March 2019 . https://web.archive.org/web/20190326143159/http://www.infoelectoral.mir.es/infoelectoral/min/busquedaAvanzadaAction.html . dead .
  7. Web site: Administració Electoral: Junta Electoral de Zona de l'Hospitalet de Llobregat . . 29 April 2003 . LXV . 102 . 103 . 24 December 2018 . . Barcelona, Spain . Catalan .
  8. Web site: Consulta de Resultados Electorales: Municipales / Mayo 2003 - Mun. Cornellà de Llobregat . . 26 December 2018 . Madrid, Spain . Spanish . 26 March 2019 . https://web.archive.org/web/20190326143159/http://www.infoelectoral.mir.es/infoelectoral/min/busquedaAvanzadaAction.html . dead .
  9. Otras Disposiciones: Juntas Electorales Provinciales - Junta Electoral de Barcelona . . 17 February 2004 . 41 . 7491 . 19 December 2018 . . Madrid, Spain . Spanish.
  10. Web site: Consulta de Resultados Electorales: Congresso / Marzo 2004 . . 26 December 2018 . Madrid, Spain . Spanish . 26 March 2019 . https://web.archive.org/web/20190326143159/http://www.infoelectoral.mir.es/infoelectoral/min/busquedaAvanzadaAction.html . dead .
  11. Otras Disposiciones: Juntas Electorales Provinciales - Junta Electoral de Barcelona . . 12 February 2008 . CCCXLVIII . 37 . 7573 . 19 December 2018 . . Madrid, Spain . Spanish.
  12. Web site: Consulta de Resultados Electorales: Congresso / Marzo 2008 . . 26 December 2018 . Madrid, Spain . Spanish . 26 March 2019 . https://web.archive.org/web/20190326143159/http://www.infoelectoral.mir.es/infoelectoral/min/busquedaAvanzadaAction.html . dead .
  13. Otras Disposiciones: Juntas Electorales Provinciales - Junta Electoral de Barcelona . . 25 October 2011 . 257 . 111256 . 11 June 2018 . . Madrid, Spain . Spanish.
  14. Web site: Consulta de Resultados Electorales: Congresso / Noviembre 2011 . . 26 December 2018 . Madrid, Spain . Spanish . 26 March 2019 . https://web.archive.org/web/20190326143159/http://www.infoelectoral.mir.es/infoelectoral/min/busquedaAvanzadaAction.html . dead .
  15. Otras Disposiciones: Juntas Electorales Provinciales - Junta Electoral de Barcelona . . 24 November 2015 . 281 . 110645 . 7 June 2018 . . Madrid, Spain . Spanish.
  16. Web site: Consulta de Resultados Electorales: Congresso / Diciembre 2015 . . 26 December 2018 . Madrid, Spain . Spanish . 26 March 2019 . https://web.archive.org/web/20190326143159/http://www.infoelectoral.mir.es/infoelectoral/min/busquedaAvanzadaAction.html . dead .
  17. Otras Disposiciones: Juntas Electorales Provinciales - Junta Electoral de Barcelona . . 31 May 2016 . 131 . 35531 . 7 June 2018 . . Madrid, Spain . Spanish.
  18. Web site: Consulta de Resultados Electorales: Congresso / Junio 2016 . . 26 December 2018 . Madrid, Spain . Spanish . 26 March 2019 . https://web.archive.org/web/20190326143159/http://www.infoelectoral.mir.es/infoelectoral/min/busquedaAvanzadaAction.html . dead .
  19. News: Joan Tardà, portavoz de Esquerra, deja el Congreso después de 15 años . 18 August 2019 . . 6 March 2019 . Madrid, Spain . Spanish.
  20. Otras Disposiciones: Junta Electoral Central - Elecciones generales. Proclamación de candidaturas . . 2 April 2019 . 79 . 34228 . 27 May 2019 . . Madrid, Spain . Spanish . 0212-033X.
  21. Web site: Consulta de Resultados Electorales: Congresso / Abril 2019 . . 18 August 2019 . Madrid, Spain . Spanish . 26 March 2019 . https://web.archive.org/web/20190326143159/http://www.infoelectoral.mir.es/infoelectoral/min/busquedaAvanzadaAction.html . dead .

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