Mercè Perea

María Mercè Perea i Conillas (born 22 November 1966)[1] is a Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE) politician. She was elected to the Congress of Deputies in the 2015 election.

Biography

Perea was born in L'Hospitalet de Llobregat in the Barcelona metropolitan area, and her father was the writer Pedro Perea Hernández [ca].[2] She graduated with a law degree from the University of Bologna in Italy.[3] As of 2023, she is married and has two daughters and a son.[4] She was elected to the city council in her home town in 2007, and was re-elected twice before resigning due to being elected to the Congress of Deputies; she was replaced in the council by David Quirós.[5]

Third on the Socialists' Party of Catalonia (PSC) list in the Barcelona constituency in the 2015 Spanish general election, Perea was elected to Congress.[6] After the 2016 election, she was one of 15 PSOE deputies to vote against the investiture of Mariano Rajoy as the prime minister of Spain; this included all seven from Catalonia.[7]

In 2021, Perea wrote that the 2017 Catalan independence referendum and the Catalan declaration of independence were illegal, but that the reaction from Rajoy's government in sending in the security forces "provoked greater confrontation". She supported new PSOE prime minister Pedro Sánchez's decision to pardon the leaders of the referendum as a way to move on.[8]

References

  1. ^ "Perea i Conillas, María Mercè" (in Spanish). Congress of Deputies. Retrieved 16 June 2024.
  2. ^ Perea, Mercè (19 January 2023). "Ciudadanas de primera" [First-class female citizens]. El Periódico de Catalunya (in Spanish). Retrieved 16 June 2024.
  3. ^ "Mercè Perea Conillas" (in Spanish). El Plural. 28 October 2016. Retrieved 16 June 2024.
  4. ^ "3 preguntas políticas y 4 de nada políticas a Mercè Perea, vecina de L'Hospitalet, y candidata del PSC-PSOE al Congreso de los Diputados" [3 political questions and 4 with nothing to do with politics for Mercè Perea, resident of L'Hospitalet, and PSC-PSOE candidate for the Congress of Deputies] (in Spanish). Tot L'Hospitalet. 21 July 2023. Retrieved 16 June 2024.
  5. ^ "David Quirós releva a Mercè Perea como concejal en L'Hospitalet" [David Quirós replaces Mercè Perea as councillor in L'Hospitalet]. La Vanguardia (in Spanish). 27 July 2016. Retrieved 28 May 2024.
  6. ^ "Listado completo de los diputados electos" [Complete list of the elected deputies]. El Norte de Castilla (in Spanish). 21 December 2015. Retrieved 16 June 2024.
  7. ^ López Learte, Pablo; Romero, Juanma (30 October 2016). "Así han votado los diputados socialistas en la sesión de investidura de Rajoy" [This is how the Socialist deputies voted in Rajoy's investiture session]. El Confidencial (in Spanish). Retrieved 16 June 2024.
  8. ^ Perea, Mercè (23 June 2021). "¡Que nadie desvíe nuestra atención!" [May nobody distract our attention!]. 20 minutos (in Spanish). Retrieved 16 June 2024.