32 Facts About Ernest Maragall

Ernest Maragall was previously Minister of Education, a member of the European Parliament and a member of Barcelona City Council.

Ernest Maragall worked in advertising and marketing before holding several positions in BCC.

Ernest Maragall left the PSC in 2012 due to its opposition to Catalan independence and founded the pro-independence New Catalan Left which later merged with others to form the Left Movement.

Ernest Maragall is currently a member of the Republican Left of Catalonia.

Ernest Maragall was a member of BCC from 1995 to 2004 and held several senior positions in the socialist administration, including that of his brother Pasqual who was Mayor of Barcelona till 1997.

Ernest Maragall was elected to the Parliament of Catalonia in November 2003 but resigned upon being appointed secretary of the regional government presided by his brother Pasqual.

Ernest Maragall was re-elected to the Catalan Parliament in November 2006 but resigned again upon being appointed Minister of Education in the regional government presided by Jose Montilla.

Ernest Maragall was re-elected in November 2010 but the socialists lost power to the Convergence and Union and Maragall lost his ministerial post.

Ernest Maragall was a member of the European Parliament from July 2014 to December 2016 and in December 2017 he was re-elected to the Catalan Parliament.

Ernest Maragall was born on 5 January 1943 in Barcelona, Catalonia.

Ernest Maragall was educated at Virtene School and was a member of the Agrupament Escolta de la Confraria.

Ernest Maragall was a member of the Workers' Front of Catalonia, an underground resistance movement against the fascist dictatorship of Francisco Franco, from its foundation in 1961.

Ernest Maragall worked in advertising and marketing from 1958 and 1970.

Ernest Maragall was one of the founders of the Socialist Convergence of Catalonia in 1974.

Ernest Maragall was a member of the executive committee of the Barcelona branch of the PSC from 1977 to 2012.

Ernest Maragall contested the 1995 local elections as a PSC candidate in Barcelona and was elected.

Ernest Maragall was re-elected at the 1999 and 2003 local elections.

Ernest Maragall was councillor of Finance and Public Function and Presidency and Finance.

Ernest Maragall was spokesperson for the city government led by mayor Joan Clos from July from 2001 to June 2003.

Ernest Maragall was president of the District Council of Sant Andreu, Municipal Institute of Informatics and Municipal Institute of Finance, and vice-president of Municipal Institute of Education.

Ernest Maragall was the city council's representative in the Federation of Municipalities of Catalonia, vice-president of the Spanish Federation of Municipalities and Provinces' Public Function Commission and vice-president of the Board of Directors of Localret.

Ernest Maragall contested the 2003 regional election as a Socialists' Party of Catalonia-Citizens for Change electoral alliance candidate in the Province of Barcelona and was elected to the Parliament of Catalonia.

Ernest Maragall was secretary of the regional government presided by his brother Pasqual from December 2003 to September 2006.

Ernest Maragall was Minister of Education from November 2006 to November 2010 in the regional government led by Jose Montilla.

Ernest Maragall contested the 2010 regional election as a PSC candidate in the Province of Barcelona and was re-elected.

Ernest Maragall supported Catalan independence but the PSC's leadership opposed this and eventually Ernest Maragall and others left the party in October 2012 to form the pro-independence New Catalan Left.

Ernest Maragall contested the 2014 European elections as The Left for the Right to Decide electoral alliance candidate and was elected to the European Parliament.

In December 2016, half-way through his term, Ernest Maragall resigned from the European Parliament to allow Jordi Sole i Ferrando to become an MEP.

Ernest Maragall was touted as a candidate for President of Catalonia.

In May 2018 Ernest Maragall announced that he had joined the Republican Left of Catalonia.

On 19 May 2018 newly elected President Quim Torra nominated a new government in which Ernest Maragall was to be Minister of Foreign Action, Institutional Relations and Transparency.

Ernest Maragall was sworn in on 2 June 2018 at the Palau de la Generalitat de Catalunya.