Elisenda Alamany

Elisenda Alamany
Secretary-General of Republican Left of Catalonia
Incumbent
Assumed office
14 December 2024
PresidentOriol Junqueras
Preceded byMarta Rovira
City Councilor of Barcelona
Incumbent
Assumed office
15 June 2019
Member of the Parliament of Catalonia
In office
17 January 2018 – 2 April 2019
ConstituencyBarcelona
Personal details
Born
Elisenda Alamany i Gutiérrez

1983 (age 41–42)
Sabadell, Spain
Political party
Other political
affiliations		Sobiranistes
Residence(s)Sabadell, Castellar del Vallès, Barcelona
Alma materUniversity of Barcelona
OccupationTeacher, politician

Elisenda Alamany i Gutiérrez (born 1983) is a Spanish teacher and politician. She serves as a member of the City Council of Barcelona since June 2019 and as Secretary-General of Republican Left of Catalonia since December 2024.

From January 2018 to April 2019 she was a deputy in the 12th Legislature of the Parliament of Catalonia. Initially part of the coalition Catalunya en Comú–Podem, she was the spokesperson for its parliamentary group from 18 January to 29 October 2018. In October 2018, she promoted the platform Sobiranistes (Sovereigntists) as a criticism of the leadership of En Comú Podem. In February 2019 she left the parliamentary group but kept her seat. On 24 February 2019, she announced the creation of the party Nova [ca].

Biography

Elisenda Alamany holds a licentiate in Catalan philology and has worked as a secondary education teacher. She specialized in management of linguistic and cultural diversity at the Open University of Catalonia in 2012, and has taught Catalan to foreigners at Pompeu Fabra University, as well as teaching adults at Òmnium Cultural and the Consortium for Linguistic Normalization [ca].

Her political career is rooted in municipalism.[1] In 2007, together with Gemma Ubasart and a group of residents of Castellar del Vallès, she founded the candidacy L'Altraveu per Castellar as an independent grouping of electors not affiliated with any political party. In the 2007 elections for Castellar del Vallés they obtained two councilors, who were revalidated in the 2011 elections.

In the 2015 elections for Castellar del Vallés, the Decidim Castellar candidacy – an alliance of L'Altraveu, Procés Constituent, United and Alternative Left, and Podemos – yielded four councilors.[2]

Alamany won a seat as deputy of the Parliament of Catalonia in the 2017 regional election, where she was number 2 for the district of Barcelona for the electoral coalition Catalunya en Comú–Podem.[3] She was the spokesperson for its parliamentary group from 18 January to 29 October 2018.[4]

Identified with the Catalan independence movement, following the resignation of Xavier Domènech on 22 October 2018, she was a promoter of the manifesto Som Comuns. Som Sobiranistes[5] and the platform Sobiranistes as a criticism of the direction of En Comú Podem. Together with Joan Josep Nuet, she denounced Catalunya en Comú–Podem for abandoning the issue of sovereignty, which had been one of its original values.[6] On 29 October Alamany stepped down as spokesperson for the "Comuns" in Parliament.[7]

On 19 February 2019 Alamany left the En Comú Podem parliamentary group, maintaining her seat in Parliament and announcing that she would dedicate herself to Sobiranistes, transforming it into a new party.[8][9] On 24 February 2019, the new party's name was announced: Nova [ca].[10]

In March 2019 it was reported that Sobiranistes was negotiating a coalition with the Republican Left of Catalonia for the Congress and City Council of Barcelona,[11] and that Elisenda Alamany would be number 2 on the City Council list headed by Ernest Maragall.[12]

Publications

  • Construint municipi des dels moviments socials (2010), co-edited with Gemma Ubasart and Marc Serrà, Editorial Icaria, ISBN 9788498882759
  • La centralitat, en joc: conversa amb cinc veus representatives de partits polítics sobre la recerca de l'hegemonia a Catalunya (2018), with Marta Vilalta i Torres [es], Ferran Pedret i Santos [ca], Marta Rovira, Arturo Mas, and Sonia Sierra [es], Lleida Pagès Editors, ISBN 9788499759555

References

  1. ^ Zapata, Guillermo (15 October 2014). "10 notas sobre nuevo municipalismo y una postdata" [10 Notes on New Municipalism and a Postscript]. eldiario.es (in Spanish). Retrieved 19 July 2019.
  2. ^ Gil, Iván (8 December 2017). "Elisenda Alamany, número 2 de los 'comuns', hija de andaluza y un votante de la CUP" [Elisenda Alamany, Number 2 of the 'Comuns', Daughter of Andalusian, and a Voter of the CUP]. El Confidencial (in Spanish). Retrieved 19 July 2019.
  3. ^ "Los 135 diputados del Parlament de Catalunya tras el 21-D" [The 135 Deputies of the Parliament of Catalonia After 21-D]. La Vanguardia (in Spanish). Barcelona. 22 December 2017. Retrieved 19 July 2019.
  4. ^ "Catalunya en Comú, nombre definitivo del partido de Ada Colau" [Catalunya en Comú, Final Name of Ada Colau's Party]. 20 minutos (in Spanish). Barcelona. EFE. 22 May 2017. Retrieved 19 July 2019.
  5. ^ Cañizares, María Jesús (25 October 2018). "La vieja pugna Colau-Alamany, trastienda de la última crisis de los comunes" [The Old Colau-Alamany Struggle, Backroom of the Comuns' Last Crisis]. Crónica Global (in Spanish). Retrieved 19 July 2019.
  6. ^ Cuevas, Elena (22 October 2018). "Los 'comuns' entran en crisis arrastrados por el debate soberanista" [The 'Comuns' Enter Crisis Dragged By the Sovereignty Debate]. Crónica Global (in Spanish). Retrieved 19 July 2019.
  7. ^ "Elisenda Alamany renuncia como portavoz de los 'comuns' en el Parlament" [Elisenda Alamany Steps Down as Spokesperson for the 'Comuns' in Parliament]. El Periódico de Catalunya (in Spanish). 29 October 2018. Retrieved 19 July 2019.
  8. ^ Pascual, Roger (19 February 2019). "Elisenda Alamany abandona el grupo parlamentario de los 'comuns'" [Elisenda Alamany Leaves the Parliamentary Group of the 'Comuns']. El Periódico de Catalunya (in Spanish). Barcelona. Retrieved 19 July 2019.
  9. ^ González, Sara (20 February 2019). "Elisenda Alamany convertirà la plataforma Sobiranistes en un partit" [Elisenda Alamany to Convert the Sobiranistes Platform into a Party]. Nació Digital (in Catalan). Retrieved 19 July 2019.
  10. ^ Pascual, Roger (24 February 2019). "El partido de Elisenda Alamany ya tiene nombre: Nova" [Elisenda Alamany's Party Now Has a Name: Nova]. El Periódico de Catalunya (in Spanish). Barcelona. Retrieved 19 July 2019.
  11. ^ Puente, Arturo (13 March 2019). "Un sector de los 'comuns' deja a Colau y negocia con ERC una coalición al Congreso y al Ayuntamiento de Barcelona" [A Sector of the 'Comuns' Leaves Colau and Negotiates a Coalition with ERC for the Congress and the City Council of Barcelona]. eldiario.es (in Spanish). Retrieved 19 July 2019.
  12. ^ Pascual, Roger; Sust, Toni (19 February 2019). "Elisenda Alamany, número 2 de Ernest Maragall en la lista de ERC en Barcelona" [Elisenda Alamany, Ernest Maragall's Number 2 on the ERC List in Barcelona]. El Periódico de Catalunya (in Spanish). Barcelona. Retrieved 19 July 2019.
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