Antoni Martí
| Antoni Martí | |
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| 6th Prime Minister of Andorra | |
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Assumed office 1 April 2015 |
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| Monarch |
Episcopal Co-prince: Joan Enric Vives Sicília French Co-prince: François Hollande |
| Representative |
Episcopal: Josep Maria Mauri French: Thierry Lataste |
| Preceded by | Gilbert Saboya Sunyé (Acting) |
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In office 12 May 2011 – 23 March 2015 |
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| Monarch |
Episcopal Co-prince: Joan Enric Vives Sicília French Co-prince: Nicolas Sarkozy François Hollande |
| Representative |
Episcopal: Nemesi Marqués Oste Josep Maria Mauri French: Christian Frémont Sylvie Hubac Thierry Lataste |
| Preceded by | Pere López Agràs (Acting) |
| Succeeded by | Gilbert Saboya Sunyé (Acting) |
| Personal details | |
| Born |
10 November 1963 Escaldes-Engordany, Andorra |
| Political party | Democrats for Andorra |
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Antoni Martí Petit (born 10 November 1963) is an Andorran architect and politician who has effectively been the Prime Minister of Andorra since May 2011, when he was elected on the ticket of the Democrats for Andorra. He was re-elected in the 2015 parliamentary election.
Martí was born in Escaldes-Engordany and studied at the (Toulouse National School of Architecture), part of the Université fédérale de Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées. He is an architect by profession.
Martí was first elected to the General Council in 1993, the first parliamentary election to involve political parties, as a member of the Liberal Union. In the election, the Liberal Union came a close second. Òscar Ribas Reig, who had been appointed Prime Minister, lost a vote of no confidence in 1994, leading to Marc Forné Molné, the leader of the Liberal Union, being appointed as Prime Minister. Martí was re-elected in the 1997 election, in which the Liberal Union won and Molné remained as Prime Minister. Shortly before the 2001 election, the Liberal Union was renamed as the Liberal Party of Andorra, and went on to win the election, with Molné retaining his role as Prime Minister.
In 2004, Martí resigned from the General Council and was elected as Mayor of Escaldes-Engordany, the second largest town in Andorra. He served two consecutive terms as Mayor, from 2004 to 2007, and from 2008 to 2011. The Liberal Party had contested the 2009 election as part of the Reformist Coalition, losing to the Social Democratic Party led by Jaume Bartumeu. Bartumeu opted to call an early election in 2011 after losing the budget vote two years running to the opposition parties. In February 2011, the Democrats for Andorra was formed as a direct successor to the Reformist Coalition, with Martí as their candidate for Prime Minister. He campaigned against Bartumeu's proposed introduction of an income tax. The Democrats for Andorra won 55.5% of the vote, and Bartumeu resigned as Prime Minister on 28 April 2011, to be replaced by Pere López Agràs in an interim capacity until 12 May 2011, when Martí was appointed.
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