| Order: | Counsellor of Governance and Institutional Relations of the Generalitat de Catalunya |
| Term Start: | 29 November 1999 |
| Term End: | 5 February 2001 |
| President: | Jordi Pujol |
| Predecessor: | Xavier Pomés i Abella |
| Successor: | Núria de Gispert |
| Birth Date: | 27 March 1952 |
| Birth Place: | Alcampell, Huesca, Aragón, Spain |
| Party: | Democratic Union of Catalonia (CiU) |
| Occupation: | Politician and Lawyer |
Josep Antoni Duran i Lleida (born 27 March 1952 in Alcampell, Spain) is a Spanish politician. A qualified lawyer, Duran began his political career when he was elected MP in the General Elections of Spain in 1979, representing Lleida becoming tinent d'alcalde in the municipality of Lleida.[1] [2]
Currently Duran is an MP for Barcelona district, elected in the General Elections in 2004, and is a member of Convergence and Union (CiU). Duran i Lleida has also been the president of Democratic Union of Catalonia (UDC), a political party which is part of CiU, since 1987 and also from 1982 to 1984.
In November 2003 Duran i Lleida advocated calling gay marriage (which is legal in Spain) by a different name.[3] In January 2007 Josep Antoni adopted the Gibraltar nationality as a stand against the Spanish government policies. Years after, in March 2012 during a fierce debate with Spanish prime minister Mariano Rajoy, Duran i Lleida asked for the immediate recognition of Kosovo by Spain, and stated that the reasons for non-recognition "are not international but internal".