Mireia Boya Busquet
Member of the Parliament of Catalonia
In office
19 January 2016 – 28 October 2017
ConstituencyProvince of Lleida
Personal details
Born1979 (age 44–45)
Saint-Gaudens, France
CitizenshipSpanish
Political partyCorròp
Parents
RelativesJusèp Boya Busquet (brother)
Alma materUniversité de Montréal
OccupationProfessor, environmental scientist, politician
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Mireia Boya Busquet (born 1979) is a Catalan scientist, activist, and politician from Spain. She is a councilor of the Aran municipality of Les. Since February 2018 she has been part of the national secretariat of the Popular Unity Candidacy (CUP). She was a member of the Catalan Parliament from 2016 to 2017.

Biography

The daughter of Ernesto Boya and the politician Maria Pilar Busquets, she has a degree in Environmental Sciences from the Autonomous University of Barcelona (2002), a master's degree in Landscape Design (2004), and a PhD in Land Management and Planning (2009) from the Université de Montréal. In the professional field, she is a consultant and adjunct lecturer[1] ("asociada") of the Humanities Department of Pompeu Fabra University.[2]

Mireia Boya Busquet has been a fighter for the recognition of Occitan identity of the Valley of Aran, and was the first member of the Catalan Parliament to use the Aranese dialect in the Parliament of Catalonia.[3] Her brother, Jusèp Boya Busquet, has been general director of Archives, Libraries, Museum, and Heritage of the Generalitat beginning in January 2016, an office that he was dismissed from after the 2017 suspension of Catalonian self-government.

Political career

Boya is a founder and former coordinator of the Assemblea Nacional Catalana in Val d'Aran and councilor in the city of Les for the Corròp party, framed in Occitan nationalism. In the 2015 elections to the Parliament of Catalonia, she was a candidate of the CUP for the district of Lleida, after a vote in primaries. Boya, who was second in the list in her constituency, was not elected, but on 18 December 2015, during the tense negotiations between the CUP and the pro-independence coalition Junts pel Sí, the CUP's number one, Ramon Usall, resigned for personal reasons.[4] In this way, Boya occupied the post of regional parliamentarian.[5][6] She participated in the plenary sessions of the Parliament that voted for the roadmap to independence for Catalonia, and voted the Unilateral declaration of Independence of Catalonia.

In the elections of 21 December 2017, of the 5,265 votes cast in Val d'Aran, the CUP received 174 – 3.3% of the total.[7]

In February 2018, she was elected a member of the CUP National Secretariat as an independent candidate with 662 votes.[8]

Occitan nationalism

A defender of the Occitan nation, Boya upholds a "project of a country with two languages of its own", a country that looks "to the north, to Occitania".[9]

Judicial case

On 22 December 2017, Judge Pablo Llarena of the Supreme Court of Spain agreed on the inquiry (previously charged) for rebellion against Mireia Boya (president of the CUP's parliamentary group), Artur Mas (president of the PDeCat), Marta Rovira (secretary general of the ERC), Anna Gabriel (spokesperson of the CUP), Marta Pascal (general coordinator of the CUP), and Neus Lloveras (president of the AMI), all for belonging to the organizing team of the Catalan independence referendum held on 1 October 2017 and with a decisive role in the secessionist plan, whose roadmap was annulled by the Spanish Constitutional Court.[10][11] Boya was declared as investigated on 14 February 2018, being released without precautionary measures.[12]

References

  1. ↑ "UPF official page". Archived from the original on 19 October 2019. Retrieved 19 October 2019.
  2. ↑ "La CUP renova el 40% dels diputats que té al parlament" [The CUP Renews 40% of MPs in Parliament]. VilaWeb (in Catalan). 11 January 2016. Retrieved 10 July 2018.
  3. ↑ "Rozando el esperpento: la nueva diputada de CUP sólo hablará en aranés" [Grazing the Grotesque: The New CUP Deputy Will Only Speak in Aranese]. ESDiario.com (in Spanish). 20 January 2016. Retrieved 10 July 2018.
  4. ↑ Tort, Àlex (19 December 2015). "Voto secreto en la asamblea de la CUP para decidir si se inviste a Artur Mas" [Secret Vote in the CUP Assembly to Decide Whether to Invest Artur Mas]. La Vanguardia (in Spanish). Retrieved 10 July 2018.
  5. ↑ Llobet, Àlvar (10 January 2016). "Mireia Boya serà diputada de la CUP en substitució de Ramon Usall" [Mireia Boya to be CUP Deputy as Substitute for Ramon Usall]. Nació Digital (in Catalan). Retrieved 10 July 2018.
  6. ↑ "Una occitanista aranesa candidata al Parlament de Catalonha per la CUP" [An Occitan Aranese Candidate for the Parliament of Catalonia for the CUP]. Jornalet (in Occitan). 31 July 2015. Retrieved 10 July 2018.
  7. ↑ "Resultados Electorales en Aran: Elecciones Cataluña 2017" [Electoral Results in Aran: Catalan Elections 2017]. El País (in Spanish). Retrieved 10 July 2018.
  8. ↑ "La CUP renueva su cúpula con equilibrios entre Endavant y Poble Lliure" [The CUP Renews its Leadership with Balances Between Endavant and Poble Lliure]. La Vanguardia (in Spanish). Barcelona. EFE. 16 February 2018. Retrieved 10 July 2018.
  9. ↑ Sallés, Quico (20 January 2016). "La nueva diputada de la CUP sólo hablará en aranés en la tribuna" [The New CUP Deputy Will Only Speak in Aranese at the Rostrum]. La Vanguardia (in Spanish). Barcelona. Retrieved 10 July 2018.
  10. ↑ Villanueva, Nati; Arechederra, Luis P. (22 December 2017). "El juez imputa a Marta Rovira, Artur Mas y Anna Gabriel en la causa por rebelión" [The Judge Accuses Marta Rovira, Artur Mas, and Anna Gabriel in the Case for Rebellion]. ABC (in Spanish). Retrieved 10 July 2018.
  11. ↑ "La imputada Boya (CUP) sostiene que la decisión del Supremo es una 'venganza'" [The Accused Boya (CUP) Maintains that the Supreme's Decision is a 'Revenge']. Okdiario (in Spanish). 22 December 2017. Retrieved 10 July 2018.
  12. ↑ "Mireia Boya declara ante el Tribunal Supremo" [Mireia Boya Testifies Before the Supreme Court]. ABC (in Spanish). 14 February 2018. Retrieved 10 July 2018.
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