Miquel Iceta

Miquel Iceta
Miquel Iceta
Minister of Culture and Sport
	In office; 12 July 2021 – 21 November 2023
Prime Minister	Pedro Sánchez
Preceded by	José Manuel Rodríguez Uribes
Succeeded by	Ernest Urtasun(Culture); Pilar Alegría(Sport)
Minister of Territorial Policy and Civil Service
	In office; 27 January 2021 – 12 July 2021
Prime Minister	Pedro Sánchez
Preceded by	Carolina Darias
Succeeded by	Isabel Rodríguez García(Territorial Policy); María Jesús Montero; (Civil Service)
First Secretary of theSocialists' Party of Catalonia
	In office; 13 July 2014 – 19 December 2021
Deputy	Eva Granados
Preceded by	Pere Navarro
Succeeded by	Salvador Illa
President of theSocialists' Party of Catalonia
	Incumbent
	Assumed office; 19 December 2021
Vice President	Núria Marín
First Secretary	Salvador Illa
Preceded by	Núria Marín
Member of the Parliament of Catalonia
	In office; 5 November 1999 – 26 January 2021
Constituency	Barcelona
Member of the Congress of Deputies
	In office; 27 March 1996 – 2 November 1999
Constituency	Barcelona
Member of the Congress of Deputies
	Incumbent
	Assumed office; 17 August 2023
Constituency	Barcelona
Personal details
Born	Miquel Iceta Llorens; 17 August 1960(age 63); Barcelona,Catalonia,Spain
Political party	Socialists' Party of Catalonia

Miquel Iceta Llorens(born 17 August 1960) is a Spanish politician and member of theSocialists' Party of Catalonia,currently serving asminister of Culture and Sportof the Spanish government since 2021. Previously, he served asminister of Territorial Policy and Civil Servicefrom January to July 2021.

He's one of the first openly gay politicians from Spain.^[1]He has been a member of the 6th to 12th terms of theParliament of Catalonia.He also was member of the 6thCongress of Deputies,representingBarcelona.^[2]

Biography

Born on 17 August 1960 in Barcelona, he began studying chemistry but abandoned his studies after a year; he then enrolled as an Economics student in theAutonomous University of Barcelona(UAB), from whence he was expelled after sitting his first year five times, thus reaching the maximum amount of repeats allowed by university regulations.^[3]He then focused solely on politics. His earlier stint in the Partido Socialista Popular de Cataluña, which he had joined in September 1977,^[4]had been followed a year later by joining the Juventud Socialista de Cataluña and the Partido de los Socialistas de Cataluña (PSC).^[4]^[5]

Elected in the 1987 municipal elections, he served as a councillor in theCornellá de LlobregatTown Hall from 1987 to 1991. A politician trusted by Narcís Serra,^[6]the latter, Vice-President of the Government, appointed him Director of the Analysis Department of the Cabinet of the Presidency of the Government,^[7]a responsibility he held from 1991 to 1995, when he became Deputy Director of the Cabinet.^[8]

Included as a candidate in number 7 of the list of the PSC to theCongress of Deputiesfor Barcelona in the general elections of 1996,^[9]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.^[8]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, replacingPere Navarro.

On 30 June 2015 he was elected PSC candidate for the presidency of theGeneralitat de Catalunyafor the regional elections of 27-S,^[10]in which his party won 16 seats.

On 27 January 2021,Pedro Sánchezappointed him asminister of Territorial Policy and Civil Serviceof theSpanish government.

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)

References

^"Sí, también hay diputados gays".archivodemiqueliceta(in Spanish). 20 December 2006.
^"VI Legislatura (1996-2000) Iceta i Llorens, Miquel".Congress of Deputies.
^"Miquel Iceta fue expulsado de la Facultad tras cursar durante cinco años seguidos el primer curso de Económicas".El Matinal(in Spanish). Archived fromthe originalon 2021-07-10.Retrieved2021-07-10.
^^a ^b"Miquel Iceta, un histórico" fontanero "famoso por sus bailes, acérrimo" sanchista "y líder del PSC".La Voz de Galicia(in Spanish). 2016-10-16.Retrieved2020-05-21.
^QUÍLEZ, SILVIA (2015-08-21)."Miquel Iceta, un veterano del PSC para abrir la vía al catalanismo federalista".RTVE.es(in Spanish).Retrieved2020-05-21.
^"Miquel Iceta, el fan de Queen que quiso ser librero".ELMUNDO(in Spanish). 2017-12-16.Retrieved2020-05-21.
^Díez, Anabel (2015-09-28)."Iceta salva al PSC y lo mantiene como fuerza decisiva en Cataluña".El País(in Spanish).ISSN 1134-6582.Retrieved2020-05-21.
^^a ^bTorrecilla, Francisco (1999-10-12)."El diputado socialista Iceta declara en un acto público que es homosexual".El País(in Spanish).ISSN 1134-6582.Retrieved2020-05-21.
^"Candidaturas proclamadas para las elecciones al Congreso de los Diputados y al Senado, convocadas por Real Decreto 1/1996, de 8 de enero"(PDF).Retrieved21 May2020.
^"Crónica Global:: Toda la información sobre Cataluña".Crónica Global(in Spanish).Retrieved2020-05-21.

Political offices
Preceded by Ignacio Varela	DeputyMoncloa Chief of Staff 1995-1996	Succeeded by Gabriel Elorriaga
Preceded by Carolina Darias	Minister of Territorial Policy and Civil Service 2021	Succeeded by Isabel Rodríguez García
Preceded by José Manuel Rodríguez Uribes	Minister of Culture and Sport 2021–present	Incumbent
Party political offices
Preceded by Joaquim Nadal	Leader of theSocialist Groupin theParliament of Catalonia 2003–2012	Succeeded by Jaume Collboni
Preceded by Office created	Deputy First Secretary of theSocialists' Party of Catalonia 2004–2011	Succeeded by Núria Parlón
Preceded by Pere Navarro	First Secretary of theSocialists' Party of Catalonia 2014–present	Incumbent

[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 fue expulsado de la Facultad tras cursar durante cinco años seguidos el primer curso de Económicas".El Matinal(in Spanish). Archived fromthe originalon 2021-07-10.Retrieved2021-07-10.

[:0-4] "Miquel Iceta, un histórico" fontanero "famoso por sus bailes, acérrimo" sanchista "y líder del PSC".La Voz de Galicia(in Spanish). 2016-10-16.Retrieved2020-05-21.

[5] QUÍLEZ, SILVIA (2015-08-21)."Miquel Iceta, un veterano del PSC para abrir la vía al catalanismo federalista".RTVE.es(in Spanish).Retrieved2020-05-21.

[6] "Miquel Iceta, el fan de Queen que quiso ser librero".ELMUNDO(in Spanish). 2017-12-16.Retrieved2020-05-21.

[7] Díez, Anabel (2015-09-28)."Iceta salva al PSC y lo mantiene como fuerza decisiva en Cataluña".El País(in Spanish).ISSN 1134-6582.Retrieved2020-05-21.

[:1-8] Torrecilla, Francisco (1999-10-12)."El diputado socialista Iceta declara en un acto público que es homosexual".El País(in Spanish).ISSN 1134-6582.Retrieved2020-05-21.

[9] "Candidaturas proclamadas para las elecciones al Congreso de los Diputados y al Senado, convocadas por Real Decreto 1/1996, de 8 de enero"(PDF).Retrieved21 May2020.

[10] "Crónica Global:: Toda la información sobre Cataluña".Crónica Global(in Spanish).Retrieved2020-05-21.

[1]

[2]

[3]

[4]

[5]

[6]

[7]

[8]

[9]

[10]

Authority control databases
International	ISNI VIAF WorldCat
National	Spain Catalonia Germany United States
Other	IdRef

Biography

Bibliography

Further reading

References