Esmorzar-col·loqui Joan Herrera, 18 doctubre de 2010 (2)

Joan Herrera i Torres (

Barcelona Barcelona ( , , ) is a city on the coast of northeastern Spain. It is the capital and largest city of the autonomous community of Catalonia, as well as the second most populous municipality of Spain. With a population of 1.6 million within c ...

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, 29 January 1971) is a Spanish lawyer and politician from

Catalonia Catalonia (; ca, Catalunya ; Aranese Occitan: ''Catalonha'' ; es, Cataluña ) is an autonomous community of Spain, designated as a '' nationality'' by its Statute of Autonomy. Most of the territory (except the Val d'Aran) lies on the no ...

. He was the leader of the leftist party Iniciativa per Catalunya.

Education

Herrera gained a law degree from the

University of Barcelona The University of Barcelona ( ca, Universitat de Barcelona, UB; ; es, link=no, Universidad de Barcelona) is a public university located in the city of Barcelona, Catalonia, in Spain. With 63,000 students, it is one of the biggest universities i ...

, and specialises in issues of law and urban environment law, with a postgraduate degree at the

Universitat Pompeu Fabra Pompeu Fabra University ( ca, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, UPF, ; es, link=no, Universidad Pompeu Fabra) is a public university located in the city of Barcelona, Catalonia in Spain. The university was created by the Autonomous Government of Catal ...

Political career

He began his political activism in the grouping Youth with Initiative (JIC) in the

district of Sant Martí. In 1996, he began his career in politics when he was elected National Coordinator of JIC, a position he held until 2000. Under his leadership the youth organization was defined as

eco-socialist Eco-socialism (also known as green socialism or socialist ecology) is an ideology merging aspects of socialism with that of green politics, ecology and alter-globalization or anti-globalization. Eco-socialists generally believe that the expansi ...

, a definition later used by the grouping

Initiative for Catalonia Greens Initiative for Catalonia Greens ( ca, Iniciativa per Catalunya Verds, ICV; ) was an eco-socialist political party in Catalonia. It was formed as a merger of Iniciativa per Catalunya and Els Verds. IC had been an alliance led by Partit Socialis ...

(ICV) which Herrera joined. As a member of ICV, he was responsible for the social movements of the party and coordinated, among others, the "No to War" campaign against the Iraq war for ICV in 2002 and 2003. On 14 March 2004, he was elected to the

Spanish Congress of Deputies The Congress of Deputies ( es, link=no, Congreso de los Diputados, italic=unset) is the lower house of the Cortes Generales, Spain's legislative branch. The Congress meets in the Palace of the Parliament () in Madrid. It has 350 members elect ...

representing Barcelona Province as head of the ICV list and was re-elected at the subsequent election in March 2008. In January 2007, he was elected vice-president of ICV. Since the ninth meeting of ICV, held in Sabadell in November 2008, is secretary general of the group. In 2009, he sought to publicly condemn Pope

Benedict XVI Pope Benedict XVI ( la, Benedictus XVI; it, Benedetto XVI; german: link=no, Benedikt XVI.; born Joseph Aloisius Ratzinger, , on 16 April 1927) is a retired prelate of the Catholic church who served as the head of the Church and the sovereig ...

for having argued that condoms may in fact do more harm than good in the fight against AIDS.Des députés espagnols veulent condamner le pape pour ses propos sur le Sida

References

External links

website of Joan Herrera
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Joan Herrera tab of the Spanish Congress
{{DEFAULTSORT:Herrera i Torres, Joan 1970 births Living people Initiative for Catalonia Greens politicians Members of the 8th Congress of Deputies (Spain) Members of the 9th Congress of Deputies (Spain) Politicians from Barcelona Pompeu Fabra University alumni