Carolina Telechea
Member of the Congress of Deputies of Spain
Assumed office
12 June 2018
Preceded byEster Capella
ConstituencyBarcelona
Member of Igualada Municipal Council
In office
2015–2019
Personal details
Born
Carolina Telechea i Lozano

(1981-08-09) 9 August 1981
Igualada, Catalonia, Spain
Political partyRepublican Left of Catalonia
Other political
affiliations		Republican Left of Catalonia–Sovereigntists
Alma materUniversity of Barcelona
OccupationLawyer
Websitecarolinatelecheaadvocada.com

Carolina Telechea i Lozano (born 9 August 1981) is a Catalan lawyer and politician from Spain. He is a member of the Congress of Deputies of Spain.

Early life and family

Telechea was born on 9 August 1981 in Igualada,[lower-alpha 1] Catalonia.[2][3] She has a diverse family background - Andalusian, Argentine, Basque and Extremaduran.[3] Her father was from Madrid while her mother was from Cáceres.[4] Both parents worked in the textile industry and in the 1990s her father founded a computer company.[4] She has two younger sisters who are twins.[4] Telechea has a degree in law from the University of Barcelona and a postgraduate degree in legal practice from the Barcelona Bar Association.[1][3]

Telechea's family were socialists and supporters of federalism.[2] Her father was a Socialists' Party of Catalonia (PSC) councillor in Santa Margarida de Montbui in the 1980s.[4][5] Telechea was a member of the PSC for six years and was secretary of the Anoia branch of the Socialist Youth of Catalonia (JSC).[2][5] However, the failure of the socialists to prioritise federalism led to Telechea leaving the PSC in 2010.[2][4]

Career

Telechea has been a practicing lawyer since 2006, specialising in criminal law.[1][4] Whilst working as a co-ordinator for the socialist mayor of Santa Margarida de Montbui she was dismissed when she became pregnant.[4] She sued and with the compensation she won she formed her own law firm in 2011.[3][4]

In 2015 Telechea was approached by the nationalist Republican Left of Catalonia (ERC) to contest the local elections.[4][5] She contested the 2015 local elections as a Republican Left of Catalonia–Acord Municipal (ERC-AM) electoral alliance candidate in Igualada and was elected.[6][7]

At the 2016 general election Telechea was placed sixth on the Republican Left of Catalonia–Catalonia Yes (ERC–CatSí) electoral alliance's list of candidates in the Province of Barcelona but the alliance only managed to win five seats in the province and as a result she failed to get elected.[8][9] However, in June 2018, she was appointed to the Congress of Deputies following the resignation of Ester Capella.[3][10][11] She was re-elected at the April 2019 and November 2019 general elections.[12][13][14][15]

Personal life

Telechea is married to a Mossos d'Esquadra police officer and has a son, Jules.[1][4]

Electoral history

Electoral history of Carolina Telechea
Election Constituency Party Alliance No. Result
2015 local[6][7]IgualadaRepublican Left of CataloniaRepublican Left of Catalonia–Acord Municipal2Elected
2016 general[8][9]Province of BarcelonaRepublican Left of CataloniaRepublican Left of Catalonia–Catalonia Yes6Not elected
2019 April general[12][13]Province of BarcelonaRepublican Left of CataloniaRepublican Left of Catalonia–Sovereigntists3Elected
2019 November general[14][15]Province of BarcelonaRepublican Left of CataloniaRepublican Left of Catalonia–Sovereigntists2Elected

Notes

  1. ↑ Another source gives Telechea's place of birth as Barcelona.[1]

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 "Members: XIV Legislatura ( 2019-Actualidad ) - Telechea i Lozano, Carolina" (in Spanish). Madrid, Spain: Congress of Deputies. Retrieved 25 March 2020.
  2. 1 2 3 4 López, Òscar (31 May 2016). ""Molta gent ha fet el mateix trànsit que jo"". El Punt (in Catalan). Girona, Spain. Retrieved 25 March 2020.
  3. 1 2 3 4 5 "Carolina Telechea" (in Catalan). Barcelona, Spain: Republican Left of Catalonia. Retrieved 25 March 2020.
  4. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Hinojosa, Silvia (20 July 2019). "Carolina Telechea, la diputada de ERC alérgica a las selfies". La Vanguardia (in Spanish). Barcelona, Spain. Retrieved 26 March 2020.
  5. 1 2 3 "Carolina Telechea sustituye a Ester Capella en el Congreso de los Diputados" (in Catalan). Barcelona, Spain: Republican Left of Catalonia. 1 June 2018. Retrieved 26 March 2020.
  6. 1 2 "Administració Electoral: Junta Electoral de Zona d'Igualada". Butlletí Oficial de la Província de Barcelona (in Catalan). Barcelona, Spain: Diputació de Barcelona. 28 April 2015. p. 18. Retrieved 26 March 2020.
  7. 1 2 "Consulta de Resultados Electorales: Municipales / Mayo 2015 - Mun. Igualada" (in Spanish). Madrid, Spain: Ministry of the Interior. Archived from the original on 26 March 2019. Retrieved 26 March 2020.
  8. 1 2 "Otras Disposiciones: Juntas Electorales Provinciales - Junta Electoral de Girona" (PDF). Boletín Oficial del Estado (in Spanish). Madrid, Spain: Government of Spain. 25 May 2016. p. 34529. Retrieved 11 June 2018.
  9. 1 2 "Consulta de Resultados Electorales: Congresso / Junio 2016" (in Spanish). Madrid, Spain: Ministry of the Interior. Archived from the original on 26 March 2019. Retrieved 25 March 2020.
  10. ↑ "Los diputados sustitutos de las dos conselleras de ERC toman hoy posesión". La Vanguardia (in Spanish). Barcelona, Spain. EFE. 12 June 2018. Retrieved 26 March 2020.
  11. ↑ Alberola, Miquel (12 June 2018). "Un pleno vacío". El País (in Spanish). Madrid, Spain. Retrieved 26 March 2020.
  12. 1 2 "Otras Disposiciones: Junta Electoral Central - Elecciones generales. Proclamación de candidaturas" (PDF). Boletín Oficial del Estado (in Spanish). No. 79. Madrid, Spain: Government of Spain. 2 April 2019. p. 34228. ISSN 0212-033X. Retrieved 27 May 2019.
  13. 1 2 "Consulta de Resultados Electorales: Congresso / Abril 2019" (in Spanish). Madrid, Spain: Ministry of the Interior. Archived from the original on 26 March 2019. Retrieved 25 March 2020.
  14. 1 2 "Otras Disposiciones: Juntas Electorales Provinciales – Elecciones generales. Proclamación de candidaturas" (PDF). Boletín Oficial del Estado (in Spanish). No. 248. Madrid, Spain: Government of Spain. 15 October 2019. p. 113505. ISSN 0212-033X. Retrieved 15 October 2019.
  15. 1 2 "Consulta de Resultados Electorales: Congresso / Noviembre 2019" (in Spanish). Madrid, Spain: Ministry of the Interior. Archived from the original on 26 March 2019. Retrieved 25 March 2020.

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