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Maria Teresa Jordà i Roura (born 19 June 1972) is a Spanish politician from Catalonia and the current Minister of Climate Action, Food and Rural Agenda of Catalonia.
Teresa Jordà | |
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Minister of Climate Action, Food and Rural Agenda of Catalonia | |
In office 26 May 2021 – 12 June 2023 | |
President | Pere Aragonès |
Preceded by | Herself (as Minister of Agriculture, Livestock, Fisheries and Food) |
Succeeded by | David Mascort |
Minister of Agriculture, Livestock, Fisheries and Food of Catalonia | |
In office 2 June 2018 – 26 May 2021 | |
President | Quim Torra |
Preceded by | Meritxell Serret (Direct rule from 27 October 2017) |
Member of the Congress of Deputies | |
In office 5 December 2011 – 1 June 2018 | |
Succeeded by | Joan Margall |
Constituency | Girona |
Mayor of Ripoll | |
In office 14 June 2003 – 21 May 2011 | |
Preceded by | Eudald Casadesús i Barceló |
Succeeded by | Jordi Munell i Garcia |
Member of the Municipality Council of Ripoll | |
In office 1999–2017 | |
Member of the Congress of Deputies | |
Assumed office 17 August 2023 | |
Constituency | Barcelona |
Personal details | |
Born | Maria Teresa Jordà i Roura 19 June 1972 Ripoll, Catalonia, Spain |
Citizenship | Spanish |
Political party | Republican Left of Catalonia |
Other political affiliations | Republican Left of Catalonia–Catalonia Yes |
Alma mater | Autonomous University of Barcelona |
She was previously the Minister of Agriculture, Livestock, Fisheries and Food of Catalonia, member of the Congress of Deputies and mayor of Ripoll, a municipality in north-east Spain.
Jordà was born on 19 June 1972 in Ripoll, Catalonia.[1][2] She has a degree in modern and contemporary history from the Autonomous University of Barcelona.[3][4]
Jordà contested the 1999 local elections as a Republican Left of Catalonia-Acord Municipal (ERC-AM) electoral alliance candidate in Ripoll and was elected.[5][6] She was re-elected at the 2003 local elections.[7][8] At the 2003 election ERC-AM formed a pact with the Socialists' Party of Catalonia-Municipal Progress and Junts per Ripoll-Initiative for Catalonia Greens-Agreement for Municipal Progress alliances to gain control of the municipality from Convergence and Union (Ciu) and Jordà became mayor of Ripoll.[3][9] She was re-elected at the 2007 and 2011 local elections.[10][11][12][13] ERC-AM lost control of the municipality to CiU in 2011 and Jordà ceased being mayor.[3] She was re-elected at the 2015 local elections.[14][15]
Jordà was vice-president of the Fundació Eduard Soler de Ripoll, president of the Fundació Guifré and a member of the executive of the Federació de Municipis de Catalunya.[2][4]
Jordà contested the 2011 general election as a Republican Left of Catalonia–Catalonia Yes (ERC–CatSí) candidate in the Province of Girona and was elected to the Congress of Deputies.[16][17] She was re-elected at the 2015 and 2016 general elections.[18][19][20][21] She resigned from the municipality council in July 2017 to concentrate on her Congress of Deputies work.[3]
On 19 May 2018 newly elected President of Catalonia Quim Torra nominated a new government in which Jordà was to be Minister of Agriculture, Livestock, Fisheries and Food.[22][23][24] She was sworn in on 2 June 2018 at the Palau de la Generalitat de Catalunya.[25][26][27]
In 2013 she defended the effectiveness of homeopathy and other alternative treatments in the Congress of Deputies.[28] In July 2018, as Minister of Agriculture, Livestock, Fisheries and Food of the Catalan government, she promoted the consumption of raw milk in the region.[29][30]
Election | Constituency | Party | Alliance | No. | Result |
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1999 local[5][6] | Ripoll | Republican Left of Catalonia | Republican Left of Catalonia-Acord Municipal | 1 | Elected |
2003 local[7][8] | Ripoll | Republican Left of Catalonia | Republican Left of Catalonia-Acord Municipal | 1 | Elected |
2007 local[10][11] | Ripoll | Republican Left of Catalonia | Republican Left of Catalonia-Acord Municipal | 1 | Elected |
2011 local[12][13] | Ripoll | Republican Left of Catalonia | Republican Left of Catalonia-Acord Municipal | 1 | Elected |
2011 general[16][17] | Province of Girona | Republican Left of Catalonia | Republican Left of Catalonia–Catalonia Yes | 1 | Elected |
2015 local[14][15] | Ripoll | Republican Left of Catalonia | Republican Left of Catalonia-Acord Municipal | 1 | Elected |
2015 general[18][19] | Province of Girona | Republican Left of Catalonia | Republican Left of Catalonia–Catalonia Yes | 1 | Elected |
2016 general[20][21] | Province of Girona | Republican Left of Catalonia | Republican Left of Catalonia–Catalonia Yes | 1 | Elected |
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