Daniel Sirera Bellés (born 30 July 1967 in

Badalona Badalona (, , , ) is a municipality in Barcelonès county, in Catalonia (Spain). It is located to the north east of Barcelona, on the left bank of the Besòs River and on the Mediterranean Sea, in the Barcelona metropolitan area. By population, ...

) is a Spanish politician."Daniel Sirera Bellés,"
The Catalan Audiovisual Council. He served as the chairman of the People's Party in

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(PPC) from 2007–08.

Biography

Sirera, was born in

, Spain. His father was a city guard who later books at the Sant Antoni market, and his grandfather was a metro ticket clerk. In 1973 he moved with his family to the

Sant Antoni Sant Antoni is a neighborhood in the ''Eixample'' district of Barcelona, Catalonia (Spain). Its non-official centre, the Mercat de Sant Antoni, marketplace of the same name—designed by Antoni Rovira i Trias and built between 1872 and 1882—i ...

neighborhood in

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. After spending about a year in

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, he returned to Barcelona. He is a law graduate of the

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. He is married and has two children. He is a former columnist for online newspaper ''

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''. From 1992 until 1998 Sirera worked as a lawyer in the law firm VOabogados in

Sant Cugat del Vallès Sant Cugat del Vallès () is a town and municipality north of Barcelona, Catalonia. Known as ''Castrum Octavianum'' in antiquity (which means ''the castle of Octavianus'') and as ''Pins del Vallès'' during the Second Spanish Republic, it is nam ...

."Daniel Sirera Bellés,"
Council of Barcelona. In 1996 he received the Medal of Honor of the Bar Association of Barcelona for his work. From 1996-2010 Sirera was a deputy in the

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. From 1996-99 he was a councilor in the

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. In 1997 the

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awarded Sirera the

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Silver Medal for his contributions to the design of the Catalan Civil Protection system (1997). From 2007–08 Sirera served as the chairman of the People's Party in

(PPC) and a senator representing the

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."Quemar la Constitución o señalar a Llarena: el regulador catalán siempre salva a TV3"
''El Confidencial''. Retrieved 2018-05-18. In 2009, he founded the communication agency S & L Comunicació. Sirera was its managing partner between 2009 and 2012. From 2012-22 Sirera was a member of the Audiovisual Council of Catalonia. From 2014-22, he was a member of the Advisory Board of the

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in Spain. From June 2023, he has been the president of the Municipal Group of the Popular Party at

. Sirera is currently a

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in the

for the constituency of

, and is the leader of the PPC's parliamentary group.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Sirera, Daniel 1967 births Living people 21st-century Catalan people People from Badalona Politicians from Barcelona Sportspeople from the Province of Barcelona People's Party (Spain) politicians Members of the Parliament of Catalonia Members of the Senate of Spain University of Barcelona alumni Members of the 5th Parliament of Catalonia Barcelona municipal councillors (2023–2027)