Ramon Espadaler Explained

Honorific-Prefix:The Honourable
Ramon Espadaler
Honorific Suffix:MP
Office:Minister of Justice and Democratic Quality of Catalonia
Term Start:12 August 2024
President:Salvador Illa
Predecessor:Gemma Ubasart
Office1:Minister of Home Affairs of Catalonia
Term Start1:27 December 2012
Term End1:22 June 2015
President1:Artur Mas
Predecessor1:Felip Puig
Office2:Minister of the Environment and Housing of Catalonia
Term Start2:20 November 2001
Term End2:20 December 2003
President2:Jordi Pujol
Predecessor2:Felip Puig
Successor2:Salvador Milà
Office3:Member of the Parliament of Catalonia
Constituency3:Barcelona
Term Start3:17 January 2018
Constituency4:Barcelona
Term Start4:5 December 2003
Term End4:16 April 2013
Constituency5:Barcelona
Term Start5:3 April 1992
Term End5:25 January 2000
Birth Name:Ramon Espadaler Parcerisas
Birth Date:2 September 1963
Party:United to Advance (since 2017)
Otherparty:UDC (1989–2017)
Alma Mater:Autonomous University of Barcelona

Ramon Espadaler Parcerisas (born 19 September 1963 in Vic, Catalonia, Spain[1]), is a Spanish politician. He is married with three children.

Early life and education

He gained a BA in geography and history from the University of Barcelona.[1] He also studied political science and sociology at the Autonomous University of Barcelona.

Political career

Espadaler has been a member of the Catalan Parliament from 1992 to the present, except for a period between January 2000 and 2003.[1] During that time, he held two government posts. He was first appointed director general for local government at the Ministry for Governmental Affairs and Institutional Relations.[1] The following year he became minister for the environment, a post he held until 2003.[1]

From 2010 to 2012, he was deputy spokesman for the CiU, Catalonia's current ruling coalition, at Catalonia's Parliament. The CiU was then the main opposition group. He sponsored bills 7/2011 (on financial and tax measures), 9/2011 (on the promotion of business activities), and 5/2012 (on financial, tax, and administrative measures, and setting up of a tax on hotel stays). He had previously served as deputy mayor of Vic (1999-2001), and as deputy mayor of Sant Quirze de Besora, a smaller nearby town (1991-1999).[1]

Espadaler has been a Catalan representative at the Congress of Local and Regional Authorities of the Council of Europe. He has authored a number of history papers, together with articles in the local and national press.

A member of the Democratic Union of Catalonia (UDC) since 1988,[1] Espadaler chairs its national council since 2003. The UDC is a Christian-Democrat party founded in 1931, and the CiU's junior partner. Past party posts include president of the Barcelona Province chapter, secretary for local government affairs at the ruling council, and secretary general of the ruling council in 2001–2002.

Notes and References

  1. http://www.elperiodico.com/es/noticias/politica/ramon-espadaler-govern-generalitat-catalunya-2281890 Ramon Espadaler, 'conseller' de Interior