Josep Antoni Duran i Lleida

This article is about the Catalan politician. For other people with the same Spanish name, see José Durán.

In this Spanish name, the first or paternal surname is Duran and the second or maternal family name is Lleida.

Josep Antoni Duran i Lleida (born 27 March 1952 in Alcampell, Spain) is a Spanish politician. A qualified lawyer, Duran began his political career when he was elected MP in the General Elections of Spain in 1979, representing Lleida becoming tinent d'alcalde in the municipality of Lleida.^[1][2]

Josep Antoni Duran i Lleida
Counsellor of Governance and Institutional Relations of the Generalitat de Catalunya
In office 29 November 1999 – 5 February 2001
President	Jordi Pujol
Preceded by	Xavier Pomés i Abella
Succeeded by	Núria de Gispert
Personal details
Born	(1952-03-27) 27 March 1952 (age 73) Alcampell, Huesca, Aragón, Spain
Nationality	Spain
Political party	Democratic Union of Catalonia (CiU)
Occupation	Politician and Lawyer

Currently Duran is an MP for Barcelona district, elected in the General Elections in 2004, and is a member of Convergence and Union (CiU). Duran i Lleida has also been the president of Democratic Union of Catalonia (UDC), a political party which is part of CiU, since 1987 and also from 1982 to 1984.

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In November 2003 Duran i Lleida advocated calling gay marriage (which is legal in Spain) by a different name.^[3] In January 2007 Josep Antoni adopted the Gibraltar nationality as a stand against the Spanish government policies. Years after, in March 2012 during a fierce debate with Spanish prime minister Mariano Rajoy, Duran i Lleida asked for the immediate recognition of Kosovo by Spain, and stated that the reasons for non-recognition "are not international but internal".