Albert Botran

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Albert Botran
Botran in 2018
Member of the Congress of Deputies
In office
3 December 2019 – 16 August 2023
ConstituencyBarcelona
Member of the Parliament of Catalonia
In office
26 October 2015 – 28 October 2017
ConstituencyBarcelona
Member of Molins de Rei Municipal Council
In office
2011–2015
Personal details
BornAlbert Botran i Pahissa
(1984-01-14) 14 January 1984 (age 42)
CitizenshipSpanish
PartyPoble Lliure
Other political
affiliations
Popular Unity Candidacy–For Rupture
Alma materAutonomous University of Barcelona
OccupationHistorian

Albert Botran i Pahissa (born 14 January 1984) is a Spanish historian and politician from Catalonia and a former member of the Congress of Deputies of Spain. He was previously a member of the Parliament of Catalonia.[1]

Early life

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Botran was born on 14 January 1984 in Molins de Rei, Catalonia.[2][3] He has a degree in history and a master's degree in comparative history from the Autonomous University of Barcelona.[2][3]

Career

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Botran has been active in the leftist Catalan independence movement since 2002 and helped found the Molins de Rei branch of Popular Unity Candidacy (CUP) in 2007.[3][4] He was a member of the CUP's national secretariat from 2009 to 2013 and from 2018 to 2019.[2][3] Botran works for the Òmnium Cultural.[3][4] In 2010 he won the 24th Francesc Carreras i Candi Award for his work Pensar Històricament els Països Catalans. La Historiografia i el Projecte Nacional dels Països Catalans (1960-1985).[3][5]

Botran contested the 2011 local elections as a Popular Unity Candidacy–Active People (CUP-PA) electoral alliance candidate in Molins de Rei and was elected.[6][7] Botran was one of the signatories of the October 2014 Nous Temps, Noves Eines - Per la Independència, pel Socialisme, pels Països Catalans: Ni un pas Enrere’, manifesto by leftist Catalan nationalists.[8][9] The manifesto led to the formation, in November 2014, of Poble Lliure of which Botran is a member.[3][4][10] He did not seek re-election at the 2015 local elections.[11]

Botran contested the 2015 regional election as a CUP candidate in the Province of Barcelona and was elected to the Parliament of Catalonia.[12][13] In February 2017 Botran attended an event in Castelló de Farfanya marking the 30th death anniversary of Catalan independence activist Julià Babia, a member of the Movement for Defence of the Land.[14][15] As a consequence, in September 2017 the Spanish Attorney General started an investigation on charges of extolling terrorism against four members of Poble Lliure: Botran, Toni Casserras, Ferran Dalmau and Guillem Fuster.[16][17] In December 2018 the Audiencia Nacional started investigating the case against the four and three others - Marcel·lí Canet, Marcel Casellas and Josep Maria Cervelló.[18]

At the 2017 regional election Botran was placed 81st on CUP's list of candidates in the Province of Barcelona but the party only won three seats in the province and as a result he failed to get re-elected.[19][20] He contested the 2019 November general election as a Popular Unity Candidacy–For Rupture candidate in the Province of Barcelona and was elected to the Congress of Deputies.[21][22] In 2023 general elections he wasn't reelected.

Works

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  • Les Proclames de Sobirania de Catalunya 1640-1936 (2009, Farell Editors, co-authors Adrià Cases and Oriol Junqueras)
  • Pensar Històricament els Països Catalans. La Historiografia i el Projecte Nacional dels Països Catalans (1960-1985) (2010)
  • Unitat Popular. La construcció de la CUP i l'Independentisme d'Esquerres (2012, Edicions El Jonc)[3]
  • Introducció a la Història dels Països Catalans (2014, Ediciones del 1979, co-authors Carles Castellanos and Lluís Sales; Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value).)

Electoral history

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Electoral history of Albert Botran
Election Constituency Party Alliance No. Result
2011 local[6][7] Molins de Rei Popular Unity Candidacy Popular Unity Candidacy-Active People 4 Elected
2015 regional[12][13] Province of Barcelona Poble Lliure Popular Unity Candidacy 5 Elected
2017 regional[19][20] Province of Barcelona Poble Lliure Popular Unity Candidacy 81 Not elected
2019 November general[21][22] Province of Barcelona Poble Lliure Popular Unity Candidacy–For Rupture 2 Elected

References

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