Josep Antoni Duran i Lleida
Counsellor of Governance and Institutional Relations of the Generalitat de Catalunya
In office
29 November 1999 – 5 February 2001
PresidentJordi Pujol
Preceded byXavier Pomés i Abella
Succeeded byNúria de Gispert
Personal details
Born (1952-03-27) 27 March 1952
Alcampell, Huesca, Aragón, Spain
Nationality Spain
Political partyDemocratic Union of Catalonia (CiU)
OccupationPolitician and Lawyer

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]

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.

Comments

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".

References

  1. ↑ "Unió Democràtica de Catalunya". Archived from the original on 2010-05-12. Retrieved 2009-08-21.
  2. ↑ "duranilleida.cat". duranilleida.cat. Retrieved 2013-06-06.
  3. ↑ EFE (22 April 2011). "Duran aboga por sustituir la ley del matrimonio homosexual por otra de uniones civiles". 20minutos.es (in Spanish). Retrieved 6 June 2013.


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