Miquel Ensenyat Riutort (born 30 October 1969) is a Spanish politician of the party

Més per Mallorca Més per Mallorca (, MÉS) is a Majorcan political party and coalition formed by the Socialist Party of Majorca (PSM), IniciativaVerds (IV) and Entesa per Mallorca (ExM), as well as other small local parties around the island. It was establishe ...

. He was the mayor of

Esporles Esporles () is a locality and Spanish municipality of the autonomous community of the Balearic Islands. Situated on the island of Majorca, around the zone of the Serra de Tramuntana. It's about 15 km from Palma de Mallorca. The town is divided int ...

(2005–2015), the president of the Island Council of

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(2015–2019) and his party's leader in the

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(2019–).

Biography

Ensenyat was born in

Banbury Banbury is an historic market town and civil parish on the River Cherwell in Oxfordshire, South East England. The parish had a population of 54,335 at the 2021 Census. Banbury is a significant commercial and retail centre for the surrounding ...

Oxfordshire Oxfordshire ( ; abbreviated ''Oxon'') is a ceremonial county in South East England. The county is bordered by Northamptonshire and Warwickshire to the north, Buckinghamshire to the east, Berkshire to the south, and Wiltshire and Glouceste ...

, England to

n immigrants. He graduated in Social Education, and also studied theology and philosophy before moving to the town of

at the age of 24. In 2003, Ensenyat was the lead candidate of the Socialist Party of Majorca (PSM) in the municipal elections in Esporles. They lost to the People's Party (PP), but through a

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, he became mayor in 2005, serving for a decade. In 2011, he was elected to Mallorca's Island Council as third in Més's list, and was an unsuccessful candidate in elections to the

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. Ensenyat became president of the Island Council in June 2015, with the support of fellow left-wing parties the Socialist Party of the Balearic Islands (PSIB) and Podemos. In June 2018, he took 68% of the votes to be Més's candidate in the 2019 Balearic regional election, ahead of Fina Santiago. He was elected, while the party fell from six to four seats. Ensenyat is in favour of ensuring the civil rights of

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people, as well as defending the

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and Mallorcan culture and heritage. As a gay man and a Catholic, he wrote to bishops to denounce priests endorsing right-wing candidates. Ensenyat has been harassed and threatened over his sexual orientation.

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