Carme Forcadell
| Carme Forcadell i Lluís | |
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| 14th Speaker of the Parliament of Catalonia | |
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Assumed office 26 October 2015 |
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| Preceded by | Núria de Gispert |
| President of the Catalan National Assembly | |
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In office 2012–2015 |
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| Succeeded by | Jordi Sànchez i Picanyol |
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| Born | 1956 Xerta, Spain |
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Together for the Yes Republican Left of Catalonia |
| Alma mater | Autonomous University of Barcelona |
| Occupation | Teacher, writer, politician |
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Carme Forcadell i Lluís (born 1956 in Xerta, Spain) is a high school teacher, linguist and politician, known for her Catalan independence activism.
She was one of the founders of Plataforma per la Llengua, member of the executive board of the Sabadell branch of Òmnium Cultural and president of the Catalan National Assembly from its inception until May 2015.
In 2015 she won a seat in the Catalan parliament as part of the Together for Yes coalition. Subsequently in October 2015 she was elected President of the Parliament of Catalonia.
Forcadell has a degree in philosophy and communication studies from the Autonomous University of Barcelona and a Masters in Catalan Philology from the same university. She worked at the television station TVE Catalunya from 1979 to 1982 and with various other media organitzations. Forcadell has been a civil servant within the Catalan Department of Education since 1985, as the coordinator of linguistic normalization for the Department's Catalan Education Service since 1992, and then from 2004 on as a consultant of intercultural studies, language, and social cohesion in Vallès Occidental. She has published textbooks, books on language and literature, and a dictionary. She has been a contributing writer for various media outlets, writing about language planning, language, and identity. She is a member of the Comissió de la Dignitat (Commission on Dignity, an organization that works to have documents confiscated by the Franco regime returned to their rightful owners) and the Plataforma pel Dret de Decidir (Platform for the Right to Decide), where she is part of the communications committee.
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