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Miquel Iceta Llorens (born 17 August 1960) is a Spanish politician and member of the Socialists' Party of Catalonia, currently serving as minister of Culture and Sport of the Spanish government since 2021. Previously, he served as minister of Territorial Policy and Civil Service from January to July 2021.
Miquel Iceta | |
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| Minister of Culture and Sport | |
| In office 12 July 2021 – 21 November 2023 | |
| Prime Minister | Pedro Sánchez |
| Preceded by | José Manuel Rodríguez Uribes |
| Succeeded by | Ernest Urtasun (Culture) Pilar Alegría (Sport) |
| Minister of Territorial Policy and Civil Service | |
| In office 27 January 2021 – 12 July 2021 | |
| Prime Minister | Pedro Sánchez |
| Preceded by | Carolina Darias |
| Succeeded by | Isabel Rodríguez García (Territorial Policy) María Jesús Montero (Civil Service) |
| First Secretary of the Socialists' Party of Catalonia | |
| In office 13 July 2014 – 19 December 2021 | |
| Deputy | Eva Granados |
| Preceded by | Pere Navarro |
| Succeeded by | Salvador Illa |
| President of the Socialists' Party of Catalonia | |
| Assumed office 19 December 2021 | |
| Vice President | Núria Marín |
| First Secretary | Salvador Illa |
| Preceded by | Núria Marín |
| Member of the Parliament of Catalonia | |
| In office 5 November 1999 – 26 January 2021 | |
| Constituency | Barcelona |
| Member of the Congress of Deputies | |
| In office 27 March 1996 – 2 November 1999 | |
| Constituency | Barcelona |
| Member of the Congress of Deputies | |
| Assumed office 17 August 2023 | |
| Constituency | Barcelona |
| Personal details | |
| Born | Miquel Iceta Llorens 17 August 1960 Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain |
| Political party | Socialists' Party of Catalonia |
He's one of the first openly gay politicians from Spain.[1] He has been a member of the 6th to 12th terms of the Parliament of Catalonia. He also was member of the 6th Congress of Deputies, representing Barcelona.[2]
Biography edit
Born on 17 August 1960 in Barcelona, he began studying chemistry but abandoned his studies after a year; he then enrolled as an Economics student in the Autonomous University of Barcelona (UAB), from whence he was expelled after sitting his first year five times, thus reaching the maximum amount of repeats allowed by university regulations.[3] He then focused solely on politics. His earlier stint in the Partido Socialista Popular de Cataluña, which he had joined in September 1977,[4] had been followed a year later by joining the Juventud Socialista de Cataluña and the Partido de los Socialistas de Cataluña (PSC).[4][5]
Elected in the 1987 municipal elections, he served as a councillor in the Cornellá de Llobregat Town Hall from 1987 to 1991. A politician trusted by Narcís Serra,[6] the latter, Vice-President of the Government, appointed him Director of the Analysis Department of the Cabinet of the Presidency of the Government,[7] a responsibility he held from 1991 to 1995, when he became Deputy Director of the Cabinet.[8]
Included as a candidate in number 7 of the list of the PSC to the Congress of Deputies for Barcelona in the general elections of 1996,[9] he was elected deputy for the sixth legislature. Iceta publicly declared his homosexuality in October 1999, during the campaign for the elections to the Parliament of Catalonia in 1999; he was then considered the first Spanish politician to do so.[8] Elected as a regional deputy in the October 1999 elections, his resignation from the Congress of Deputies became effective on November 2, 1999.
In July 2008, he became a member of the Federal Executive Committee of the PSOE. He was a member of the paper for the reform of the current Statute of Autonomy of Catalonia. In July 2014, he was elected, through primary elections and without rivals, as the new Secretary General of the PSC with 85% of the votes, replacing Pere Navarro.
On 30 June 2015 he was elected PSC candidate for the presidency of the Generalitat de Catalunya for the regional elections of 27-S,[10] in which his party won 16 seats.
On 27 January 2021, Pedro Sánchez appointed him as minister of Territorial Policy and Civil Service of the Spanish government.
Bibliography edit
- Diari de Campanya: les eleccions del canvi, 2003, Editorial Mediterrània (2004). ISBN 978-84-8334-597-9
- Catalanisme federalista, Fundació Rafael Campalans (2007). ISBN 978-84-611-9895-5
- Icetadari, RBA (2015). ISBN 978-84-8261-791-6
- La tercera vía. Puentes para el acuerdo, Los libros de la Catarata (2017). ISBN 978-8490972823
- Trenta anys de militància socialista, Bubok (2008)
- Idees pel debat socialista, Bubok (2010)
Further reading edit
- Montilla, Raúl: Iceta. El estratega del Partido Socialista, Ediciones B (2017). ISBN 978-8466662246
References edit
- ^ "Sí, también hay diputados gays". archivodemiqueliceta (in Spanish). 20 December 2006.
- ^ "VI Legislatura (1996-2000) Iceta i Llorens, Miquel". Congress of Deputies.
- ^ "Miquel Iceta fue expulsado de la Facultad tras cursar durante cinco años seguidos el primer curso de Económicas". El Matinal (in Spanish). Archived from the original on 2021-07-10. Retrieved 2021-07-10.
- ^ a b "Miquel Iceta, un histórico "fontanero" famoso por sus bailes, acérrimo "sanchista" y líder del PSC". La Voz de Galicia (in Spanish). 2016-10-16. Retrieved 2020-05-21.
- ^ QUÍLEZ, SILVIA (2015-08-21). "Miquel Iceta, un veterano del PSC para abrir la vía al catalanismo federalista". RTVE.es (in Spanish). Retrieved 2020-05-21.
- ^ "Miquel Iceta, el fan de Queen que quiso ser librero". ELMUNDO (in Spanish). 2017-12-16. Retrieved 2020-05-21.
- ^ Díez, Anabel (2015-09-28). "Iceta salva al PSC y lo mantiene como fuerza decisiva en Cataluña". El País (in Spanish). ISSN 1134-6582. Retrieved 2020-05-21.
- ^ a b Torrecilla, Francisco (1999-10-12). "El diputado socialista Iceta declara en un acto público que es homosexual". El País (in Spanish). ISSN 1134-6582. Retrieved 2020-05-21.
- ^ "Candidaturas proclamadas para las elecciones al Congreso de los Diputados y al Senado, convocadas por Real Decreto 1/1996, de 8 de enero" (PDF). Retrieved 21 May 2020.
- ^ "Crónica Global :: Toda la información sobre Cataluña". Crónica Global (in Spanish). Retrieved 2020-05-21.