Lourdes Ciuró | |
Office: | Minister of Justice of Catalonia |
Term Start: | 26 May 2021 |
Term End: | 7 October 2022 |
President: | Pere Aragonès |
Predecessor: | Ester Capella |
Successor: | Gemma Ubasart |
Office1: | Member of the Congress of Deputies of Spain |
Constituency1: | Barcelona |
Term Start1: | 1 December 2011 |
Term End1: | 5 March 2019 |
Office2: | Member of Sabadell Municipal Council |
Term Start2: | 2007 |
Term End2: | 2011 |
Successor2: | Jordi Font i Renom |
Birth Name: | Maria Lourdes Ciuró i Buldó |
Birth Date: | 3 June 1971 |
Birth Place: | Reus, Catalonia, Spain |
Citizenship: | Spanish |
Party: | Catalan European Democratic Party |
Otherparty: | Together for Catalonia |
Alma Mater: | Autonomous University of Barcelona |
Occupation: | Lawyer |
Maria Lourdes Ciuró i Buldó (born 3 June 1971) is a Spanish lawyer and politician from Catalonia and a former member of the Congress of Deputies of Spain.
Ciuró was born on 3 June 1971 in Reus, Catalonia.[1] [2] She has a degree in law from the Autonomous University of Barcelona.[1] [2] [3] Ciuró joined the Democratic Convergence of Catalonia (CDC) in 2003 and was a member its national council.[1] [2] [3]
Ciuró practised of law from 1994 to 2011, specialising in real estate and family law.[1] She is a member of bar associations in Barcelona and Sabadell.[1]
Ciuró contested the 2007 local elections as a Convergence and Union (CiU) electoral alliance candidate in Sabadell and was elected.[4] [5] She was re-elected at the 2011 local election.[6] [7] She contested the 2011 general election as a CiU candidate in the Province of Barcelona and was elected to the Congress of Deputies.[8] [9] She was re-elected at the 2015 and 2016 general elections.[10] [11] [12] [13]
At the 2017 regional election Ciuró was placed 57th on the Together for Catalonia (JxCat) alliance's list of candidates in the Province of Barcelona but the alliance only managed to win 17 seats in the province and as a result she failed to get elected.[14] [15] In July 2018 she was elected to the PDeCAT's executive directorate.[16]
In February 2018 Ciuró won the nomination to be the Catalan European Democratic Party (PDeCAT)'s mayoral candidate in Sabadell at the 2019 local elections.[17] [18] She contested the 2019 local elections as a JxCat candidate in Sabadell and was re-elected though she did not become mayor.[19]
Ciuró is married with two children.[1] [2] [3]
Constituency | scope=col colspan="2" | Party | scope=col colspan="2" | Alliance | scope=col | No. | scope=col | Result |
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4 | Elected | |||||||
4 | Elected | |||||||
8 | Elected | |||||||
3 | Elected | |||||||
3 | Elected | |||||||
57 | Not elected | |||||||
1 | Elected |