Carles Mundó i Blanch (born 1976) is a Spanish lawyer and politician from

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who served as the

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of Catalonia until the dismissal of the

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and of the Catalan Government in 2017 due to its

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. He was reelected to the Catalan Parliament on December 21, 2017 as a member of the Catalonia Yes party until he resigned.

Biography

Mundó was born in 1976 in

Vic Vic (; es, Vic or Pancracio Celdrán (2004). Diccionario de topónimos españoles y sus gentilicios (5ª edición). Madrid: Espasa Calpe. p. 843. ISBN 978-84-670-3054-9. «Vic o Vich (viquense, vigitano, vigatán, ausense, ausetano, ausonense): ...

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. He graduated from the

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in 1999 with a degree in law and a master's degree in Urban Law (IDEC-UPF). The same year, he was elected to the City Council of

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as a member of the ERC, retaining the position until 2015. In 2006, Mundó joined the

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of Barcelona, and is currently responsible for the area of Civil Law of Bufet Vallbé of Barcelona. Between December 2003 and May 2006, Mundó served as the Head of the Cabinet of the Department of Education. He served as the Head of the Department of Culture and Media from December 2006 until January 2008, when he became the Secretary of Media of Communication from the Generalitat de Catalunya. He held this position until January 2011, during which time he supervised the switch of television broadcasts in Spain from analog to digital. He was also the president of the

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(ACN). He has been one of the promoters of the Rights Association, dedicated to denouncing the acts of

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. On January 14, 2016, he was appointed regional Minister of Justice of the Generalitat by

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. During his term, the Justice Department closed the Barcelona Model prison, the

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was completed, sixty-six thousand victims of

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had their judgements annulled, and the Law of Digital Will was approved.

Spanish constitutional crisis, imprisonment and judicial case

On 27 October 2017, after the

declared Catalonia's independence, the

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dismissed the Catalan Parliament, including Carles Mundó. On 2 November 2017, eight members of the Catalan Government, including Carles Mundó, were tried before the

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for rebelling against the Spanish government. The eight members were subsequently imprisoned from 2 November until 4 December, when he and the other seven members of the Catalan Government were released on bail after their case reached the

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. In the 2017 Catalan Parliament elections, he was elected as a member of the Catalonia Yes party, although he resigned from the position of deputy for "personal reasons". The trial began on 12 February 2019 and ended and was remitted to decision on 12 June 2019. On 14 October 2019, Mundó was sentenced to a year and 8 months of disqualification and a fine of 60.000€ for disobedience.Sentencia del ‘procés’: penas de 9 a 13 años para Junqueras y los otros líderes por sedición y malversación

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