Maria Dolors Sabater i Puig (born 1960) is a

Catalan Catalan may refer to: Catalonia From, or related to Catalonia: * Catalan language, a Romance language * Catalans, an ethnic group formed by the people from, or with origins in, Northern or southern Catalonia Places * 13178 Catalan, asteroid #1 ...

teacher, social activist and politician from Spain. She was mayor of

Badalona Badalona (, , , ) is a Municipalities of Spain, municipality to the immediate north east of Barcelona in Catalonia, Spain. It is located on the left bank of the Besòs River and on the Mediterranean Sea, in the Barcelona metropolitan area. By popu ...

from 2015 to 2018, and elected to the

Parliament of Catalonia The Parliament of Catalonia ( ca, Parlament de Catalunya, ; es, Parlamento de Cataluña; oc, Parlament de Catalonha) is the unicameral legislature of the autonomous community of Catalonia, Spain. The Parliament is currently made up of 135 mem ...

in 2021.

Career

Sabater is a teacher with a focus on

special needs education Special education (known as special-needs education, aided education, exceptional education, alternative provision, exceptional student education, special ed., SDC, or SPED) is the practice of educating students in a way that accommodates th ...

. Her brother Frederic has a lifelong

intellectual disability Intellectual disability (ID), also known as general learning disability in the United Kingdom and formerly mental retardation,Rosa's Law, Pub. L. 111-256124 Stat. 2643(2010). is a generalized neurodevelopmental disorder characterized by signifi ...

, and she has been vocal for

disability rights The disability rights movement is a global social movement that seeks to secure equal opportunities and equal rights for all people with disabilities. It is made up of organizations of disability activists, also known as disability advocat ...

. In June 2015, Sabater became mayor of her hometown of

, replacing People's Party incumbent

Xavier García Albiol Xavier García Albiol (born 8 December 1967) is a Spanish politician and member of the People's Party. He has been the president of the Badalona branch of his party since 1990, and he was the mayor of Badalona between 2011 and 2015, and again ...

. Her localist party Guanyem Badalona en Comú was supported by larger left-wing parties. Despite her

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and

separatist Separatism is the advocacy of cultural, ethnic, tribal, religious, racial, governmental or gender separation from the larger group. As with secession, separatism conventionally refers to full political separation. Groups simply seeking greate ...

views, Sabater took the standard oath of office swearing loyalty to the

Spanish Constitution The Spanish Constitution (Spanish, Asturleonese language, Asturleonese, and gl, Constitución Española; eu, Espainiako Konstituzioa; ca, Constitució Espanyola; oc, Constitucion espanhòla) is the Democracy, democratic law that is supreme l ...

, adding "until the working Catalan people, exercising their democratic will, decide to construct the freer, more sovereign and more socially just Catalan Republic". In May 2018, she lost a

vote of no confidence A motion of no confidence, also variously called a vote of no confidence, no-confidence motion, motion of confidence, or vote of confidence, is a statement or vote about whether a person in a position of responsibility like in government or mana ...

, and in June she was replaced by Àlex Pastor of the Socialists' Party. In May 2020, Pastor resigned following an arrest for assault of a member of the

Mossos d'Esquadra The ''Mossos d'Esquadra'' (; en, Squad), also known as the ''Policia de la Generalitat de Catalunya'' and informally as ''Mossos'', is the autonomous police force responsible for law enforcement in Spanish autonomous community of Catalonia. ...

. An agreement was tabled that her party and the Socialists agree that Sabater would be mayor for 18 months and the Socialist Rubén Guijarro for the next 18, but this failed and García Albiol returned to power instead. In December 2020, Sabater was announced as the candidate for regional president for the

Popular Unity Candidacy The Popular Unity Candidacy ( ca, Candidatura d'Unitat Popular, , CUP) is a left-wing to far-left pro-Catalan independence political party active primarily in Catalonia, where it has political representation, but also in other autonomous communiti ...

party and

Guanyem Catalunya Guanyem Catalunya ( en, Let's Win Catalonia) is a political party in Catalonia founded by the former mayor of Badalona, Dolors Sabater. History The party was founded on 1 December 2020, with the aim of "exporting municipalism to Parliament" and ...

electoral grouping, for the Catalan elections on 14 February 2021. The party gained 6.69% of the votes and nine seats in the

References

External links

Official website
{{DEFAULTSORT:Sabater, Dolors Living people 1960 births People from Badalona Activists from Catalonia Mayors of Badalona Popular Unity Candidacy politicians Women members of the Parliament of Catalonia Women mayors of places in Spain