Maria Dolors Sabater Puig (born 28 November 1960) is a Catalan teacher, social activist and politician from Spain. She was mayor of

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, ...

from 2015 to 2018, and elected to the

Parliament of Catalonia The Parliament of Catalonia (, ; ; ) is the Unicameralism, unicameral legislature of the Autonomous communities of Spain, autonomous community of Catalonia. The Parliament is currently made up of 135 members, known as Deputy (legislator), deput ...

in 2021.

Career

Sabater is a teacher with a focus on

special needs education Special education (also known as special-needs education, aided education, alternative provision, exceptional student education, special ed., SDC, and SPED) is the practice of educating students in a way that accommodates their individual di ...

. Her brother Frederic has a lifelong

intellectual disability Intellectual disability (ID), also known as general learning disability (in the United Kingdom), and formerly mental retardation (in the United States), Rosa's Law, Pub. L. 111-256124 Stat. 2643(2010).Archive is a generalized neurodevelopmental ...

, and she has been vocal for

disability rights The disability rights movement is a global social movement that seeks to secure equal opportunities and equal rights for all disabled people. It is made up of organizations of disability activists, also known as disability advocates, around ...

. In June 2015, Sabater became mayor of her hometown of

, replacing People's Party incumbent Xavier García Albiol. Her localist party Guanyem Badalona en Comú was supported by larger left-wing parties. Despite her republican and

separatist Separatism is the advocacy of cultural, ethnic, tribal, religious, racial, regional, governmental, or gender separation from the larger group. As with secession, separatism conventionally refers to full political separation. Groups simply seekin ...

views, Sabater took the standard oath of office swearing loyalty to the

Spanish Constitution The Spanish Constitution () is the supreme law of the Kingdom of Spain. It was enacted after its approval in 1978 in a constitutional referendum; it represents the culmination of the Spanish transition to democracy. The current version was a ...

, adding "until the working Catalan people, exercising their democratic will, decide to construct the freer, more sovereign and more socially just Catalan Republic". In May 2018, she lost a

vote of no confidence A motion or vote of no confidence (or the inverse, a motion or vote of confidence) is a motion and corresponding vote thereon in a deliberative assembly (usually a legislative body) as to whether an officer (typically an executive) is deemed fi ...

, and in June she was replaced by Àlex Pastor of the Socialists' Party. In May 2020, Pastor resigned following an arrest for assault of a member of the

Mossos d'Esquadra The ''Mossos d'Esquadra'' (; ), also known as the ''Policia de la Generalitat de Catalunya'' and informally as ''Mossos'', is the State police#Spain, regional police force in the autonomous community of Catalonia. They trace their origins back ...

. An agreement was tabled that her party and the Socialists agree that Sabater would be mayor for 18 months and the Socialist Rubén Guijarro for the next 18, but this failed and García Albiol returned to power instead. In December 2020, Sabater was announced as the candidate for regional president for the

Popular Unity Candidacy The Popular Unity Candidacy (, CUP) is a left-wing to far-left pro-Catalan independence political party active primarily in Catalonia, where it has political representation, but also in other autonomous communities in Spain it considers to be part ...

party and Guanyem Catalunya electoral grouping, for the Catalan elections on 14 February 2021. The party gained 6.69% of the votes and nine seats in the

References

External links

Official website
{{DEFAULTSORT:Sabater, Dolors Living people 1960 births People from Badalona Activists from Catalonia Mayors of Badalona Popular Unity Candidacy politicians Women members of the Parliament of Catalonia Women mayors of places in Spain