Oriol Junqueras i Vies
| Oriol Junqueras i Vies | |
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Official portrait of Oriol Junqueras
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| Vice President of the Catalan Government | |
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In office 14 January 2016 – 28 October 2017 |
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| President | Carles Puigdemont |
| Preceded by | Neus Munté |
| Succeeded by | Office suspended |
| Regional Minister of Economy and Finance | |
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In office 14 January 2016 – 27 October 2017 |
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| Preceded by | Andreu Mas-Colell |
| Succeeded by | Office suspended |
| Mayor of Sant Vicenç dels Horts | |
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In office 11 June 2011 – 23 December 2015 |
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| Preceded by | Amparo Piqueras Manzano |
| Succeeded by | Maite Aymerich |
| President of the Republican Left of Catalonia | |
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Assumed office 17 September 2011 |
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| Preceded by | Joan Puigcercós |
| Leader of the Opposition in the Parliament of Catalonia | |
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In office 9 January 2013 – 2 October 2015 |
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| Preceded by | Xavier Sabaté i Ibarz |
| Succeeded by | Inés Arrimadas |
| Member of the European Parliament | |
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In office 7 June 2009 – 16 January 2012 |
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| Personal details | |
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11 April 1969 Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain |
| Political party | Republican Left of Catalonia |
| Alma mater | Autonomous University of Barcelona |
| Profession | University professor |
Oriol Junqueras i Vies (Catalan pronunciation: [uɾiˈɔɫ ʒuŋˈkeɾəz i ˈβi.əs]; born 11 April 1969) is a Spanish historian and politician. He was the Vice President of the Government of Catalonia between January 2016 and October 2017. He is the former mayor of Sant Vicenç dels Horts and has been the president of the Republican Left of Catalonia (Esquerra Republicana de Catalunya, ERC) since 17 September 2011. In the Catalan elections held on 27 September 2015, he formed part of the Together for Yes (Junts pel Sí) coalition which won 62 seats in the 135-member Parliament of Catalonia.
Junqueras completed his primary and secondary education at an Italian school in Barcelona. He began his university education studying economics at the University of Barcelona, but went on to earn an undergraduate degree in Modern and Contemporary History and a doctorate in History of Economic Thought from the Autonomous University of Barcelona. His thesis analyzed the origins of modern economic thought in the western Mediterranean, establishing appropriate parallels with English and Castilian thought in the first decades of the seventeenth century.
He is a part time instructor in the Department of Modern and Contemporary History at the Autonomous University of Barcelona and has contributed to a variety of Catalan radio and television programs related to politics and history such us En Guàrdia and El nas de Cleòpatra, in Cataluña Radio, Minoría absoluta and El Món, in RAC 1 and El favorit (2005) in TV3 and has also worked as screenwriter and advisor of television documentaries such us Els Maquis, La guerra silenciada and Conviure amb el risc.
Junqueras headed ERC's electoral list for the 2009 European elections. He appeared on the list as an independent, despite serving on the town council of Sant Vicenç dels Horts as a member of ERC. Junqueras won a seat in the European Parliament as part of the group The Greens–European Free Alliance.
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