Elisenda Alamany i Gutiérrez (born 1983) is a Catalan teacher and politician. She serves as a member of the

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since June 2019 and as Secretary-General of

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since December 2024. From January 2018 to April 2019 she was a deputy in the

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of the

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. Initially part of the coalition

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, she was the spokesperson for its parliamentary group from 18 January to 29 October 2018. In October 2018, she promoted the platform Sobiranistes (Sovereigntists) as a criticism of the leadership of En Comú Podem. In February 2019 she left the parliamentary group but kept her seat. On 24 February 2019, she announced the creation of the party Nova–New Future ().

Biography

Elisenda Alamany holds a licentiate in Catalan philology and has worked as a secondary education teacher. She specialized in management of linguistic and cultural diversity at the

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in 2012, and has taught Catalan to foreigners at

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, as well as teaching adults at

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and the . Her political career is rooted in municipalism. In 2007, together with Gemma Ubasart and a group of residents of

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, she founded the candidacy L'Altraveu per Castellar as an independent

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not affiliated with any political party. In the

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for Castellar del Vallés they obtained two councilors, who were revalidated in the 2011 elections. In the

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for Castellar del Vallés, the Decidim Castellar candidacy – an alliance of L'Altraveu,

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, and Podemos – yielded four councilors. Alamany won a seat as deputy of the

in the 2017 regional election, where she was number 2 for the district of

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for the electoral coalition

. She was the spokesperson for its parliamentary group from 18 January to 29 October 2018. Identified with the

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, following the resignation of Xavier Domènech on 22 October 2018, she was a promoter of the manifesto ''Som Comuns. Som Sobiranistes'' and the platform Sobiranistes as a criticism of the direction of

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. Together with

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, she denounced Catalunya en Comú–Podem for abandoning the issue of sovereignty, which had been one of its original values. On 29 October Alamany stepped down as spokesperson for the "Comuns" in Parliament. On 19 February 2019 Alamany left the En Comú Podem parliamentary group, maintaining her seat in Parliament and announcing that she would dedicate herself to Sobiranistes, transforming it into a new party. On 24 February 2019, the new party's name was announced: Nova–New Future (). In March 2019 it was reported that Sobiranistes was negotiating a coalition with the

for the Congress and

, and that Elisenda Alamany would be number 2 on the City Council list headed by Ernest Maragall.

Publications

* ''Construint municipi des dels moviments socials'' (2010), co-edited with Gemma Ubasart and Marc Serrà, Editorial Icaria, * ''La centralitat, en joc: conversa amb cinc veus representatives de partits polítics sobre la recerca de l'hegemonia a Catalunya'' (2018), with , ,

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, Arturo Mas, and , Lleida Pagès Editors,

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Alamany, Elisenda 1983 births 21st-century Spanish women writers 21st-century Spanish writers Barcelona municipal councillors (2019–2023) Educators from Catalonia Women writers from Catalonia Writers from Catalonia Catalunya en Comú politicians Living people Members of the 12th Parliament of Catalonia People from Sabadell Academic staff of Pompeu Fabra University University of Barcelona alumni Women members of the Parliament of Catalonia Barcelona municipal councillors (2023–2027)