Meritxell Batet
| The Most Excellent Meritxell Batet | |
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| Minister of Territorial Policy and Public Function of Spain | |
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Assumed office 7 June 2018 | |
| Monarch | Felipe VI |
| Prime Minister | Pedro Sánchez |
| Preceded by |
Soraya Sáenz de Santamaría Territorial Administrations Cristóbal Montoro Public Function |
| Member of the Congress of Deputies | |
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In office 2 April 2004 – 15 June 2018 | |
| Constituency | Barcelona and Madrid |
| Personal details | |
| Born |
March 19, 1973 Barcelona, Spain |
| Political party | Socialists' Party of Catalonia |
| Spouse(s) | José María Lassalle 2005-2016 |
| Alma mater | Pompeu Fabra University |
| Occupation | Jurist, academic and politician |
Meritxell Batet i Lamaña (born 19 March 1973), is a Spanish politician member of the Party of the Socialists of Catalonia, professor of Constitutional Law at Pompeu Fabra University and current Minister of Territorial Policy and Public Function of the Government of Spain.
She has been a socialist deputy for Barcelona for the PSC in the VIII, IX and X legislatures and deputy for Madrid by the PSOE in the XI legislature. He is part of the trustworthy team of PSOE Secretary General Pedro Sánchez who, in the general elections of 2015, ranked her number two on the list for Madrid and later named her member of the negotiating committee to set up an alternative government to the PP.
Biography and academic career
She sudied at the Gravi School in Barcelona and joined the university with the support of scholarships[1]. In 1995 she graduated in Law from the Pompeu Fabra University where also took doctorate courses with the presentation of the thesis Participation, deliberation and transparency in the institutions and bodies of the European Union.[2] In 1998 she completed a postgraduate course in real estate and urban development law at IDEC. In 2013 presented the doctoral thesis project entitled The principle of subsidiarity in Spain.[3]
From 1995 to 1998 she was professor of Administrative Law at Pompeu Fabra University and was a professor of Constitutional Law until her appointment as Minister[4].
In 2007 received a German Marshall scholarship to maintain a stay in the United States.
Political career
Her first contact with politics was during his student years. She explains in interviews that when she received a grant from the Generalitat to study the doctorate at the university, her thesis supervisor, Josep Mir, told er that Narcís Serra, then first secretary of the PSC, was looking for someone to coordinate his secretariat who was not a militant. Batet collaborated with him for two years[5]. From 2001 to 2004 she directed the Carles Pi i Sunyer Foundation for Autonomous and Local Studies.
In 2004, she was an independent in the ninth position on the Barcelona list of the Socialist Party of Catalonia for the Congress of Deputies headed by José Montilla and was elected deputy for Barcelona[6]. In 2008 she joined the PSC where she works in the group of Gràcia of the Federation of Barcelona.
In the legislative elections of 2008 occupied the eleventh position of the list for Barcelona and renewed her seat as in the legislative elections of 2011 to which it concurred in the position number eight.
In February 2013 she broke the voting discipline of the Socialist Group together with other members of the PSC by voting in the Congress of Deputies in favor of the two initiatives presented by CiU and La Izquierda Plural (IU-ICV / EUiA-CHA) to allow the carrying out a referendum in Catalonia on its future relationship with the rest of Spain. The socialist group fined undisciplined deputies with 600 euros.[7]
In July 2014, she was appointed Secretary of Studies and Programs in the Federal Executive Commission of the PSOE, assuming her first organic position[8].
In the legislative elections of 2015, she was number two on the PSOE list for Madrid despite being a PSC militant in tandem with Secretary General Pedro Sánchez In addition to coordinating the electoral program for the elections, Sánchez entrusted her with the coordination of the team of experts that outlines its proposal for reforming the Constitution.[9]
In February 2016, she was one of the people chosen by Sánchez to negotiate with other political forces in an attempt to set up an alternative government alliance to PP.[10]
In April 2016, she agreed to head the PSC's list for Barcelona in the general elections convened for the month of June, following the resignation of Carme Chacón to become a candidate again[11]. In May 2016, it was confirmed that Batet would be a candidate without primaries after the resignation of Carles Martí to propose an alternative candidacy[12]:
Minister of Territorial Policy and Public Function
Chosen by Pedro Sánchez, new Spanish Prime Minister, following the motion of censure that the PSOE presented against the previous government of Mariano Rajoy (PP) and that was approved by the Congress of Deputies on 1 June 2018, appointed her as Minister in new Spanish government.[13] Felipe VI sanctioned by royal decree of June her appointment as holder of the portfolio of Minister of Territorial Policy and Public Function.[14] On 7 June she took office as Minister before the King at Palace of Zarzuela.[15][16]
Personal life
In August 2005 she married in the Cantabrian town of Santillana del Mar with the deputy for Cantabria of the Popular Party, José María Lassalle, with whom she has two twin daughters. They divorced ten years later, in May 2016. Lassalle was appointed by PM Mariano Rajoy State Secretary for Culture, and later, in 2016,Society of Information and the Digital Agenda of Spain.[17]
She has studied classical and contemporary dance, one of her passions, as she has explained in some of his most personal interviews.
Publications
- E. Niubó, M. Batet, J. Majó , Europa, Federalisme, Socialdemocràcia XXI, Fundació Rafael Campalans, Barcelona, 2012.
- L’esperança cívica d’Europa. Reflexions sobre el paper de la ciutadania a partir de la nova Constitució Europea. Publicado en FRC Revista de Debat Polític, primavera 10, 2005.
- Indicadores de gestión de servicios públicos locales. Document Pi i Sunyer número 25, Fundació Carles Pi i Sunyer, Barcelona 2004
- Indicadors de gestió de serveis públics locals: una iniciativa des de Catalunya. En Evaluación y control de políticas públicas. Indicadores de gestión. Ayuntamiento de Gijón, 2002
References
- ↑ Meritxell Batet, una catalana rebelde en la candidatura del PSOE (in Spanish)
- ↑ BATET LAMAÑA, MERITXELL (in Spanish)
- ↑ Biografía de Meritxell Batet Lamaña (in Spanish)
- ↑ Meritxell Batet, la académica que llegó al Congreso sin carné y aval de Narcís Serra (in Spanish)
- ↑ Meritxell Batet, una catalana rebelde en la candidatura del PSOE (in Spanish)
- ↑ Listas elecciones generales (in Spanish)
- ↑ El PSC rompe la disciplina de voto por primera vez al apoyar el derecho a decidir (in Spanish)
- ↑ Meritxell Batet y Zaida Cantera, candidatas dos y seis en la lista del PSOE(in Spanish)
- ↑ Todo el PSOE mira a Meritxell Batet para encabezar la lista de Barcelona (in Spanish)
- ↑ Sánchez elige un equipo moderado para negociaciones difíciles(in Spanish)
- ↑ Meritxell Batet acepta ser la candidata del PSC el 26J (in Spanish)
- ↑ Batet será candidata del PSC sin primarias (in Spanish)
- ↑ La catalana Meritxell Batet, nombrada ministra de Política Territorial y Función Pública (in Spanish)
- ↑ Real Decreto 357/2018, de 6 de junio, por el que se nombran Ministros del Gobierno (in Spanish)
- ↑ Los 17 del "Consejo de Ministras y Ministros" de Sánchez prometen ante el Rey (in Spanish)
- ↑ Real Decreto 357/2018, de 6 de junio, por el que se nombran Ministros del Gobierno (in Spanish)
- ↑ Meritxell Batet y José María Lassalle se separan (in Spanish)
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| Preceded by Soraya Sáenz de Santamaría Presidency and Territorial Administrations Cristóbal Montoro Treasury and Public Function |
Minister of Territorial Policy and Public Function of Spain 2018-present |
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