President Artur Mas Succeeded by Carme Forcadell Preceded by Antoni Isac i Aguilar Party Democrats of Catalonia | Preceded by Ernest Benach President Jordi Pujol Education University of Barcelona | |
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Succeeded by Josep Delfí Guàrdia i Canela Similar Joana Ortega, Carme Forcadell, Dorotea de Chopitea | ||
N ria de gispert este proceso no busca la divisi n aunque lo parezca
Núria de Gispert i Català (Barcelona, April 6, 1949) is a Catalan politician and lawyer. Between 2010 and 2015 she served as speaker of Parliament of Catalonia.
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- N ria de gispert este proceso no busca la divisi n aunque lo parezca
- Biography
- Speaker of the Parliament
- References
Biography
Núria de Gispert is married and has four children. She is also the daughter of politician and lawyer Ignasi de Gispert i Jordà, and greatgrandaughter of Dorotea de Chopitea, protector and benefactor of several Catholic orders. De Gispert graduated in law at the University of Barcelona and she has also the title of legal translator from Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Cooperation. She worked as lawyer from 1971 to 1973. She started to work as civil servant at the Diputació de Barcelona in 1974; later, in 1980, she was moved to the Generalitat.
In recognition of her task as lawyer, he was awarded the Cross of St. Raymond of Peñafort (1998), the Cross of Merit to the Service of the Spanish Advocacy (2002) and the Medal of the Bar Association of Barcelona (2004). She is also a member of the Academy of Jurisprudence and Legislation of Catalonia since 2006.
Speaker of the Parliament
On December 16, 2010, she was elected President (speaker) of the Parliament of Catalonia in the constitutive session of the Parliament for the ninth legislature, being the first woman to hold this position in Catalonia. At the beginning of the 10th legislature, on December 17, 2012, she was re-elected for this position. Since he didn't run on the 2015 Catalan parliamentary election, he couldn't be re-elected. At the beginning of the 11th legislature, on October 2015, Carme Forcadell, part of the Together for Yes coalition, was elected new President of the Parliament of Catalonia.