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Àngels Chacón
Spanish politician (born 1968) From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Maria Àngels Chacón i Feixas (born 1968) is a Spanish politician from Catalonia who served as Minister of Enterprise and Knowledge of the Catalan government.
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Early life
Chacón was born in 1968 in Igualada, Catalonia.[1][2] She has a degree in law from the University of Barcelona and is a specialist in international trade.[1][3]
Career
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Chacón has worked as export director for several companies in the paper sector.[1][3] She was commercial director for Juan Romaní Esteve and was in charge of export for Manipulados del Noya.[1] She was general-secretary of the Anoia Business Union, an organisation that represents 850 partners and 2,400 companies, from 2008 to 2011.[1][3]
Chacón was co-ordination of the Urbact 3D Cities (economic growth and innovation in health) and Urbact Retailink (economic growth and commercial strategy innovation in medium-sized cities) projects and has been co-director of the 4D Health Patient Safety Simulation Innovation Center since 2009.[4][5][6] In June 2017 she was appointed director-general of industry in the Generalitat de Catalunya's Department of Business and Knowledge.[1][3]
Chacón contested the 2011 local elections as an independent Convergence and Union (CiU) electoral alliance candidate in Igualada and was elected.[7][8] After the election she was appointed second deputy mayor in charge of economy, trade and tourism.[3][4] She was re-elected at the 2015 local elections.[9][10] After the election she was appointed first deputy mayor in charge of economy, knowledge, internationalisation and interior.[3][11] She joined the Catalan European Democratic Party (PDeCAT) after it was formed.[5]
On 19 May 2018 newly elected President of Catalonia Quim Torra nominated a new government in which Elsa Artadi was to be Minister of Enterprise and Knowledge.[12][13][14] However, the Spanish government condemned the inclusion of jailed/exiled politicians in the government as provocative and refused to approve Torra's appointments or to revoke direct rule.[15][16][17] Faced with this opposition Torra announced a new government on 29 May 2018 without the jailed/exiled politicians.[18][19] Chacón was to be Minister of Enterprise and Knowledge in the new government.[20][21][22] She was sworn in on 2 June 2018 at the Palau de la Generalitat de Catalunya.[23][24][25]
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