Miquel Iceta

Miquel Iceta i Llorens (born 17 August 1960) is a Spanish politician and member of the Socialists' Party of Catalonia (PSC), currently First Secretary of the PSC since 2014. He's one of the first openly gay politicians from Spain.[1] He has been a member of the 6th, 7th, 8th, 9th, 10th, 11th and 12th terms of the Parliament of Catalonia. He also was member of the 6th Congress of Deputies, representing Barcelona.[2]

This article uses Catalan naming customs: the first or paternal family name is Iceta and the second or maternal family name is Llorens.
Miquel Iceta
First Secretary of the Socialists' Party of Catalonia
Assumed office
13 July 2014
Preceded byPere Navarro
Member of the Parliament of Catalonia
for Barcelona
Assumed office
5 November 1999
Member of the Congress of Deputies
In office
27 March 1996 – 2 November 1999
ConstituencyBarcelona
Personal details
Born
Miquel Iceta Llorens

(1960-08-17) 17 August 1960
Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain
NationalitySpanish
Political partySocialists' Party of Catalonia

Biography

Born on 17 August 1960 in Barcelona, he began studying chemistry but abandoned his studies and focused on politics, combining this activity with his studies in economics at the Autonomous University of Barcelona (UAB), which he didn't completed. He joined the Partido Socialista Popular de Cataluña in September 1977.[3] A year later, in 1978, he joined the Juventud Socialista de Cataluña and the Partido de los Socialistas de Cataluña (PSC).[3][4]

Elected in the 1987 municipal elections, he served as a councillor in the Cornellá de Llobregat Town Hall from 1987 to 1991. A politician trusted by Narcís Serra,[5] the latter, Vice-President of the Government, appointed him Director of the Analysis Department of the Cabinet of the Presidency of the Government,[6] a responsibility he held from 1991 to 1995, when he became Deputy Director of the Cabinet.[7]

Included as a candidate in number 7 of the list of the PSC to the Congress of Deputies for Barcelona in the general elections of 1996,[8] he was elected deputy for the sixth legislature. Iceta publicly declared his homosexuality in October 1999, during the campaign for the elections to the Parliament of Catalonia in 1999; he was then considered the first Spanish politician to do so.[7] Elected as a regional deputy in the October 1999 elections, his resignation from the Congress of Deputies became effective on November 2, 1999.

In July 2008, he became a member of the Federal Executive Committee of the PSOE. He was a member of the paper for the reform of the current Statute of Autonomy of Catalonia. In July 2014, he was elected, through primary elections and without rivals, as the new Secretary General of the PSC with 85% of the votes, replacing Pere Navarro.

On 30 June 2015 he was elected PSC candidate for the presidency of the Generalitat de Catalunya for the regional elections of 27-S,[9] in which his party won 16 seats.

Bibliography
  • Diari de Campanya: les eleccions del canvi, 2003, Editorial Mediterrània (2004). ISBN 978-84-8334-597-9
  • Catalanisme federalista, Fundació Rafael Campalans (2007). ISBN 978-84-611-9895-5
  • Icetadari, RBA (2015). ISBN 978-84-8261-791-6
  • La tercera vía. Puentes para el acuerdo, Los libros de la Catarata (2017). ISBN 978-8490972823
  • Trenta anys de militància socialista, Bubok (2008)
  • Idees pel debat socialista, Bubok (2010)

Further reading
  • Montilla, Raúl: Iceta. El estratega del Partido Socialista, Ediciones B (2017). ISBN 978-8466662246

References
  1. "Sí, también hay diputados gays". archivodemiqueliceta (in Spanish). 20 December 2006.
  2. "VI Legislatura (1996-2000) Iceta i Llorens, Miquel". Congress of Deputies.
  3. "Miquel Iceta, un histórico «fontanero» famoso por sus bailes, acérrimo «sanchista» y líder del PSC". La Voz de Galicia (in Spanish). 2016-10-16. Retrieved 2020-05-21.
  4. QUÍLEZ, SILVIA (2015-08-21). "Miquel Iceta, un veterano del PSC para abrir la vía al catalanismo federalista". RTVE.es (in Spanish). Retrieved 2020-05-21.
  5. "Miquel Iceta, el fan de Queen que quiso ser librero". ELMUNDO (in Spanish). 2017-12-16. Retrieved 2020-05-21.
  6. Díez, Anabel (2015-09-28). "Iceta salva al PSC y lo mantiene como fuerza decisiva en Cataluña". El País (in Spanish). ISSN 1134-6582. Retrieved 2020-05-21.
  7. Torrecilla, Francisco (1999-10-12). "El diputado socialista Iceta declara en un acto público que es homosexual". El País (in Spanish). ISSN 1134-6582. Retrieved 2020-05-21.
  8. "Candidaturas proclamadas para las elecciones al Congreso de los Diputados y al Senado, convocadas por Real Decreto 1/1996, de 8 de enero" (PDF). Retrieved 21 May 2020.
  9. "Crónica Global :: Toda la información sobre Cataluña". Crónica Global (in Spanish). Retrieved 2020-05-21.
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