Joan Saura
| Joan Saura | |
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| Minister of Home Affairs, Institutional Relations and Participation of the Generalitat de Catalunya | |
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In office November 29, 2006 – December 29, 2010 |
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| Preceded by |
Montserrat Tura and Joan Saura i Laporta |
| Succeeded by |
Felip Puig (as Minister of Home Affairs) Joana Ortega (as Vice President and Minister of Governance and Institutional Relations) |
| Minister of Institutional Relations and Participation of the Generalitat de Catalunya | |
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In office December 17, 2003 – November 29, 2006 |
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| Preceded by | Josep Maria Pelegrí i Aixut |
| Succeeded by | Himself As Minister of Home Affairs, Institutional Relations and Participation |
| Personal details | |
| Born |
April 24, 1950 Barcelona (Barcelonès) |
| Political party | ICV |
Joan Saura i Laporta is a Green ICV politician in Spain. He was born in Barcelona, Catalonia, in 1950. He studied at the Escola d'Enginyeria Tècnica (Technical Engineering School), where he specialized in Industrial Chemistry. In the beginning, he was devoted to the trade union and the neighbourhood: he enrolled into the Workers' Commissions (CCOO) in 1973, while he was working for the electrics company FECSA, and cofounded the La Florida Neighbourhood Association, in L'Hospitalet de Llobregat, 1974.
He became town councillor in L'Hospitalet de Llobregat for the Unified Socialist Party of Catalonia (PSUC) in the first democratic local elections in 1979, where he participated in the formation of the government, and remained a councillor until 1991.
He also chaired (from 1983 to 1987) the Public Transport commission in Barcelona.
He was elected for the third and fourth Legislatures (1988 to 1995) as deputy for Barcelona in the Catalan Parliament for the Iniciativa per Catalunya Verds (ICV) party. He was the spokesperson of his party's group and became its president in 1993.
In this Parliament he has held several positions, including membership in the Economy, Finances and Budget commission, in the Industry commission, Territorial Politics as well as various others.
On 3 March 1996 he was elected to the Spanish Congress of Deputies representing Barcelona Province and was re-elected at the subsequent election on 12 March 2000, where he was involved in several Parliamentary Commissions (such as Environment and Defense).
As a deputy, Joan Saura promoted several initiatives, such as a rise in the minimum wage, a fight against workplace abuses by employers, same-sex marriage and the Tobin tax. Additionally, he was strongly opposed to other ones: the Plan Hidrológico Nacional (PHN), the reform of the labour market law, the quality in teaching law, the political parties' law, the tax reform, the Prestige affair and the 2003 invasion of Iraq.
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