11 Facts About Joaquim Nadal

Joaquim Nadal i Farreras was born on 31 January 1948 and is a Spanish politician and historian from Catalonia.

Joaquim Nadal is a professor at the University of Girona and was the Minister of Territorial Policy and Public Works of the Catalan Government, the Generalitat de Catalunya, from December 2003 to December 2010.

Joaquim Nadal resigned in 2002, in favour of his substitute Anna Pagans i Gruartmoner, from the PSC.

Joaquim Nadal put into practice the widening and improvement of the social services' infrastructures, bringing balance to the inequalities among neighbourhoods.

Joaquim Nadal was the PSC candidate for the presidency of the Generalitat in the 1995 elections for the Catalan Parliament, of which he was member from 1984 to 2012.

Joaquim Nadal is the first secretary of the Socialists' Party of Catalonia at Girona since 2008.

Joaquim Nadal was considered the fourth-ranking member of the government.

Convergence and Union, then the opposition group in the Catalan Parliament, called on Joaquim Nadal to resign, considering him the councillor responsible for the safety of public works projects, whereas the government blamed the opposition party for poor planning of the project during the last government of Jordi Pujol.

Joaquim Nadal became the Leader of the Opposition in the Parliament of Catalonia in December 2012, upon constitution of the 9th Legislature, with Convergence and Union forming a minority government and the Socialists' Party of Catalonia as the opposition party with the most seats.

Joaquim Nadal has intermittently taught at the University of Liverpool, the Autonomous University of Barcelona and the University of Girona.

Joaquim Nadal did not run in the 2012 Catalan parliamentary election, announcing he planned to return to his teaching duties at the University of Girona.