Miquel Iceta
Minister of Culture and Sport
In office
12 July 2021 – 21 November 2023
Prime MinisterPedro Sánchez
Preceded byJosé Manuel Rodríguez Uribes
Succeeded byErnest Urtasun (Culture)
Pilar Alegría (Sport)
Minister of Territorial Policy and Civil Service
In office
27 January 2021 – 12 July 2021
Prime MinisterPedro Sánchez
Preceded byCarolina Darias
Succeeded byIsabel 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
DeputyEva Granados
Preceded byPere Navarro
Succeeded bySalvador Illa
President of the Socialists' Party of Catalonia
Assumed office
19 December 2021
Vice PresidentNúria Marín
First SecretarySalvador Illa
Preceded byNúria Marín
Member of the Parliament of Catalonia
In office
5 November 1999 – 26 January 2021
ConstituencyBarcelona
Member of the Congress of Deputies
In office
27 March 1996 – 2 November 1999
ConstituencyBarcelona
Member of the Congress of Deputies
Assumed office
17 August 2023
ConstituencyBarcelona
Personal details
Born
Miquel Iceta Llorens

(1960-08-17) 17 August 1960
Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain
Political partySocialists' Party of Catalonia

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.

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

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

  • 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

  • Montilla, Raúl: Iceta. El estratega del Partido Socialista, Ediciones B (2017). ISBN 978-8466662246

References

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