Roger Montañola i Busquets (born 29 March 1986) is a Spanish politician and political scientist, who was a member of the Parliament of Catalonia within the Convergence i Unió parliamentary group. A member of the Democratic Union of Catalonia (UDC) until 2016, he was one of the promoters of Lliures.
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Biography
editMontañola was born in Barcelona,[1][2] and joined the Democratic Union of Catalonia at the age of eighteen.[2]
Graduated in Political Science from Pompeu Fabra University, he has a postgraduate degree in Local Governance from the Autonomous University of Barcelona and has completed a program on Leadership in Public Management at IESE - University of Navarra. In 2006, he completed part of his studies in Göteborg, Sweden.
In 2009, he became secretary general of the Unió de Joves at the UDC, and was also part of the Permanent Commission of the Democratic Union and the CENF of Convergence and Union.[3]
From 2007 to 2011, he was a councillor in Premiá de Mar.[4] From 2010 to 2012, he was a deputy in the Parliament of Catalonia.[5]
In March 2016 he founded the platform "Twenty50" together with Xavier Cima and Xavier Salvatella.[6] In November of that year, Montañola, then linked to the Lliures movement (which would choose to become a political party in 2017),[7] announced his withdrawal from the UDC, alleging an incompatibility between his status as a member of the UDC and that of an activist in another motion.[8]
He is the lead candidate for the Catalan European Democratic Party in the 2023 Spanish general election.[9]
References
edit- ^ "Constitució del Ple del Parlament i elecció dels membres de la Mesa del Parlament" (PDF). Diari de Sessions del Parlament de Catalunya: 3. 16 December 2010.
- ^ a b Cañizares, María Jesús (3 November 2016). "Tensión en el catalanismo: Montañola, ¿te vas o te largan?". Crónica Global.
- ^ EFE (29 January 2012). "La Unió de Joves cumple 80 años con llamamientos a "huir del radicalismo"". ABC. Archived from the original on 11 November 2013. Retrieved 3 November 2013.
- ^ Cedó, Fede (5 August 2015). "Unió sitúa tres candidatos del Maresme en las listas del 27-Sn". La Vanguardia.
- ^ R., P. (20 January 2020). "LLYC adquiere la consultora Diplolicy, fundada por un ex diputado de CiU". Madrid. Dircomfidencial. Retrieved 5 May 2020.
- ^ Cañizares, María Jesús (14 January 2018). "El nuevo catalanismo conquista Madrid". Crónica Global.
- ^ Lamelas, Marcos (6 April 2017). "Lliures opta por convertirse en partido y pescar en el desencanto del PDeCAT". El Confidencial.
- ^ "Roger Montañola rompe el carné de Unió porque no le permiten compatibilizarlo con Lliures". El Mundo. 2 November 2016.
- ^ "Montañola regresa a primera línea política como cabeza de lista del PDECat el 23J". Crónica Global (in Spanish). 2023-06-18. Retrieved 2023-06-27.
