Mirella Cortès Gès
Spokesman of the Republican Group in the Senate
Assumed office
May 4, 2018
Preceded bySantiago Vidal Marsal
Senator in the Senate of Spain for Barcelona
Assumed office
November 10, 2019[1]
by designation of the Parliament of Catalonia
In office
May 4, 2018 – May 20, 2019[2]
Personal details
Born (1958-08-17) 17 August 1958
Sallent de Llobregat, Spain
Political partyRepublican Left of Catalonia
OccupationPolitician

Mirella Cortès Gès (Sallent de Llobregat, August 17, 1958) is a Spanish politician. A member of Republican Left of Catalonia she was mayor of Sallent de Llobregat between 2003 and 2007, and since 2016 she has been a senator in the 11th and 12th Cortes Generales.[3]

Career

In the Spanish municipal elections of 2003 she was elected mayor of Sallent de Llobregat through a coalition of Esquerra Republicana with two other political forces.[4] This pact was not achieved again for subsequent elections and after the Spanish municipal elections of 2007 and 2011 she was a councilor in the opposition. Shortly thereafter she was appointed secretary of Municipal Policy of ERC in Bages.[5]

In the 2015 general elections she was in sixth place on the ERC list for the province of Barcelona, and was not elected.[6] However, in January 2016 she was proposed as a senator appointed by the Parliament of Catalonia in the 11th Cortes Generales.[7] In the Senate she is spokesperson for the ERC.[8]

She was reelected senator by the Catalan Parliament on May 4, 2018. Days later, on May 8, she attempted to swear her oath of office before Senate President Pío García-Escudero in the Catalan language, expressing that she was swearing "for the freedom of political prisoners, for the return of exiles, until the consolidation of the Catalan republic" and that she was promising "by legal imperative." García-Escudero did not accept it and made her modify and repeat her oath several times, even agreeing to swear in Catalan and Spanish.[9]

References

  1. ↑ España, Senado de. "Senado de España: home". www.senado.es (in Spanish). Retrieved 2023-08-24.
  2. ↑ España, Senado de. "Senado de España: home". www.senado.es (in Spanish). Retrieved 2023-08-24.
  3. ↑ España, Senado de. "Senado de España: home". www.senado.es (in Spanish). Retrieved 2023-08-24.
  4. ↑ "Ajuntament de Sallent – municat". aplicacions.municat.gencat.cat. Retrieved 27 January 2019.
  5. ↑ Produccions, Tirabol (2015-04-11). "Mirella Cortés (Sallent), candidata de la regional de la Catalunya Central al Congrés dels Diputats". Catalunya Central (in Catalan). Retrieved 2023-08-24.
  6. ↑ NacióManresa. "La sallentina Mirella Cortés anirà de 6 a la llista d'ERC per al 20-D". www.naciodigital.cat (in Catalan). Retrieved 2023-08-24.
  7. ↑ España, Senado de. "Senado de España: home". www.senado.es (in Spanish). Retrieved 2023-08-24.
  8. ↑ "Senadora de ERC jura su cargo en catalán por 'la liberación de los presos políticos'". Intereconomia (in Spanish). 9 May 2018. Retrieved 27 January 2019.
  9. ↑ "Una senadora de ERC intenta jurar su cargo en catalán por "la liberación de los presos políticos"". ELMUNDO (in Spanish). 2018-05-08. Retrieved 2023-08-24.
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