Carles Campuzano | |
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Member of the Congress of Deputies of Spain | |
In office 20 March 1996 – 5 March 2019 | |
Constituency | Barcelona |
Member of the Parliament of Catalonia | |
In office 3 April 1992 – 26 September 1995 | |
Constituency | Barcelona |
Member of Vilanova i la Geltrú Municipal Council | |
In office 1987–1991 | |
Personal details | |
Born | Carles Campuzano i Canadès 12 July 1964 Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain |
Political party | CDC (1983–2016) PDeCAT (2016–20) |
Alma mater | University of Barcelona |
carlescampuzano.cat | |
Carles Campuzano i Canadès (born 12 July 1964) is a Catalan politician and a former member of the Congress of Deputies of Spain and the Parliament of Catalonia.
Campuzano was born on 12 July 1964 in Barcelona, Catalonia.[1][2] He has a degree in law from the University of Barcelona.[3][4] Campuzano joined the Nationalist Youth of Catalonia (JNC) in 1981 and was a member of its National Executive Committee from 1984 as well as its secretary-general (1989–94) and president (1994-96).[3][4] He was one of the founders of the National Student Federation of Catalonia (Federació Nacional d'Estudiants de Catalunya, FNEC).[3] Campuzano joined the Democratic Convergence of Catalonia (CDC) in 1983 and was a member its national council.[1][3]
Campuzano worked as technical assistant in the Generalitat de Catalunya's Department of Presidency between 1986 and 1992.[3][4][5]
Campuzano was a member of Vilanova i la Geltrú Municipal Council from 1987 to 1991 and Garraf County Council from 1991 to 1992.[3][4] He contested the 1992 regional election as a Convergence and Union (CiU) electoral alliance candidate in the Province of Barcelona and was elected to the Parliament of Catalonia.[6][7] Campuzano did not contest the 1995 regional election but was nominated as the CiU's number one substitute candidate in the Province of Barcelona.[8]
Campuzano contested the 1996 general election as a CiU candidate in the Province of Barcelona and was elected to the Congress of Deputies.[9][10] He was re-elected at the 2000, 2004, 2008, 2011, 2015 and 2016 general elections.[11][12][13][14][15][16][17][18][19][20][21][22] Campuzano has been spokesperson for the Catalan European Democratic Party (PDeCAT) in the Congress of Deputies since April 2017 and was a member of the Spanish delegation in the Parliamentary Assembly of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE).[1][4][23] Despite having been proposed by its party to be the main candidate of Together for Catalonia to seek the April 2019 Spanish general election,[24] he wouldn't be chosen in the end,[25] being replaced by Laura Borràs as the main candidate by Barcelona.[26] Eventually, Carles Campuzano announced that he would be leaving the PDeCAT because of differences on its political ideology and project.[27][28]
Campuzano is chairman of the Associació Catalana de Solidaritat i Ajuda als Refugiats (Catalan Association of Solidarity and Refugee Aid, ACSAR Foundation) and a member of Òmnium Cultural, Greenpeace and Obra Cultural Balear de Mallorca.[1][3]