Juanjo Ferreiro Suárez | |
Office: | Member of the City Council of Barcelona |
Term Start: | 25 May 1983 |
Term End: | 27 May 1995 |
Office2: | Member of the Parliament of Catalonia |
Term Start2: | 10 April 1980 |
Term End2: | 20 March 1984 |
Birth Date: | 1 April 1944 |
Birth Place: | Lugo, Galicia, Spain |
Death Place: | Barcelona |
Party: | Socialists' Party of Catalonia |
Juanjo José Ferreiro Suárez (1 April 1944 – 6 April 2023) was a Spanish Catalan trade unionist, politician, and prominent labor leader against the Franco dictatorship. Following the Spanish transition to democracy, Ferreiro co-founded the Socialists' Party of Catalonia (PSC) in 1976 and was elected to the first legislature of the Parliament of Catalonia from 1980 to 1984.[1] He then served in the City Council of Barcelona, representing Nou Barris, from his election in 1983 to 1995.[1] In 2005, Ferreiro was awarded the for his contributions to the city's working-class Nou Barris district.[2]
Ferreiro was born in Lugo, Galicia, on 1 April 1944.[1] He moved to Barcelona in 1964, where he worked as an automobile painter and joined the Workers' Commissions, then a clandestine labor organization, in 1966.[3] He was arrested three times by the Franco regime and fired from several jobs for his support of labor and trade unions.[3] He resided in the municipality of Campins, just outside Barcelona, during his later life.[1] Ferreiro died on 6 April 2023, at the age of 79.[1] [3]