Antoni Comín

The Honourable
Antoni Comín
Official portrait of Antoni Comín as Regional Minister of Health
Counselor of Health of Catalonia
In office
14 January 2016 – 27 October 2017
Preceded by Boi Ruiz
Succeeded by Alba Vergés
(Direct rule until 2 June 2018)
Member of Parliament
In office
2003–2010
Personal details
Born Antoni Comín i Oliveres
1971
Barcelona (Catalonia, Spain)
Nationality Spanish
Alma mater Autonomous University of Barcelona
Profession Professor and politician

Antoni Comín i Oliveres, known as Toni Comín, (Barcelona, Spain 1971) is a philosopher and Spanish politician from Catalonia. He is a former Conseller (Minister) of Health in the Catalan Government.[1]

He was elected to the Parliament of Catalonia in September, 2015 as part of the pro-independence coalition Together for Yes as well as during the VII and VIII legislatures for the Socialists' Party of Catalonia. In October 2017, he was removed from his position as a regional minister by the Government of Spain for having participated at the declaration of independence of Catalonia and the misuse of public funds on the October referendum deemed illegal by the Spanish Constitutional Court.[2] Comín remains in Belgium to avoid arrest if he returns to Spain.

Life and career

Comín's family has been involved in politics since the 19th century. His father, Alfonso Carlos Comín, was a member of Communist PSUC. However, his grandfather, Jesús Comín Sagüés, was a Carlist MP during the Second Spanish Republic and contributed to the victory of Francisco Franco in the Spanish Civil War. The ancestors of Jesús Comín had also been prominent figures in the Carlist movement.

Comín has a degree in philosophy and political sciences from the Autonomous University of Barcelona, is a professor of social sciences at ESADE (University Ramon Llull), and member of the Foundation Alfonso Comín and of the Center for the Study of Christianity & Justice. He writes periodically for The Ciervo magazine, for El Mundo and participates in the morning radio talk-show program on RAC 1 “El perquè de tot plegat”.

He became a member of the PSC on June 13, 2011 and was elected to the Catalan Parliament in 2003 and 2006. On March 4, 2014, he announced that he would leave the party because they were not following their electoral platform.[3] On December 11, 2013 he founded the association Socialisme, Catalunya i Llibertat. In 2015 he won a seat as part of the Together for Yes coalition in the Parliament of Catalonia.

On 13 January 2016, the new president of the Catalan Government, Carles Puigdemont, appointed Comín Minister of Health. He was sworn in on 14 January.[1]

References

  1. 1 2 «DECRET 3/2016, de 13 de gener, pel qual es nomenen el vicepresident del Govern, els consellers i conselleres dels departaments de la Generalitat de Catalunya i el secretari del Govern.
  2. ↑ "Catalan ex-leaders held in Spanish jails". BBC News. 2017-11-02. Retrieved 2017-11-15.
  3. ↑ «Toni Comín anuncia que deixa el PSC».
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