1. Albert Botran i Pahissa was born on 14 January 1984 and is a Spanish historian and politician from Catalonia and a former member of the Congress of Deputies of Spain.
10 Facts About Albert Botran
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Albert Botran was previously a member of the Parliament of Catalonia.
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Albert Botran has a degree in history and a master's degree in comparative history from the Autonomous University of Barcelona.
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Albert Botran has been active in the leftist Catalan independence movement since 2002 and helped found the Molins de Rei branch of Popular Unity Candidacy in 2007.
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Albert Botran was a member of the CUP's national secretariat from 2009 to 2013 and from 2018 to 2019.
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The manifesto led to the formation, in November 2014, of Poble Lliure of which Albert Botran is a member.
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Albert Botran did not seek re-election at the 2015 local elections.
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Albert Botran contested the 2015 regional election as a CUP candidate in the Province of Barcelona and was elected to the Parliament of Catalonia.
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In February 2017 Albert Botran attended an event in Castello de Farfanya marking the 30th death anniversary of Catalan independence activist Julia Babia, a member of the Movement for Defence of the Land.
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At the 2017 regional election Albert 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.