1. Dolors Bassa i Coll was born on 1959 and is an educator, educational psychologist and Spanish politician from Catalonia who held the position of Minister of Labour, Social Affairs and Families in the Generalitat de Catalunya until Spain dismissed the Catalan government on 27 October 2017.
Dolors Bassa is known for her syndicalist career in the major Spanish trade union, Union General de Trabajadores.
Dolors Bassa was sentenced on October 14,2019, to 12 years in prison for sedition, as being responsible for devoting several thousand public schools as polling stations in the 1 October 2017 referendum.
Dolors Bassa was freed in June 2021 following a government pardon.
Dolors Bassa graduated in education from the University of Girona in 1979 and later on, in 2007, she obtained a licentiate degree in Psychopedagogy from the Open University of Catalonia.
Dolors Bassa worked as a Catalan language teacher in Palafrugell from 1979 to 1986 and in Torroella de Montgri from 1986 to 2015.
Dolors Bassa was dismissed on 27 October 2017, along with the rest of the Catalan regional government, according to Article 155 of the Spanish Constitution, after being charged of several major constitutional infringements like declaring the independence of Catalonia.
Dolors Bassa obeyed orders to clean the halls while Borras cleaned windows.
Dolors Bassa had spent 33 days in prison, but still faced the possibility of a long prison term.
Thirteen days after her release from prison, Dolors Bassa said she did not feel free.
Dolors Bassa said she felt "afraid," but was "proud" of her political career with ERC.
Dolors Bassa was re-elected member of the Catalan Parliament in the 2017 Catalan regional election, but on March 24,2018, once the insufficient vote for the investiture of Jordi Turull as president of the Generalitat of Catalonia, she resigned as deputy, along with Marta Rovira and Carme Forcadell.
Dolors Bassa was charged with rebellion and misuse of public funds.
In February 2020, Dolors Bassa was given permission to leave the prison for eight hours a day, three days a week, in order to take care of her elderly mother, as allowed by Article 100.2 of the Prison Regulation.
Dolors Bassa is still banned on holding public office.
Dolors Bassa's sister is a member of the Congress of Deputies Montserrat Bassa, elected in the 2019 general election.