Maria Lourdes Ciuró i Buldó (born 3 June 1971) is a Spanish lawyer and politician from Catalonia and a former member of the Congress of Deputies of Spain.

Early life

Ciuró was born on 3 June 1971 in Reus, Catalonia. She has a degree in law from the Autonomous University of Barcelona. Ciuró joined the

Democratic Convergence of Catalonia The Democratic Convergence of Catalonia ( ca, Convergència Democràtica de Catalunya; , CDC), frequently shortened as Convergence ( ca, Convergència; ) was a Catalan nationalist, liberal political party in Catalonia (Spain), currently still exist ...

(CDC) in 2003 and was a member its national council.

Career

Ciuró practised of law from 1994 to 2011, specialising in real estate and family law. She is a member of

bar association A bar association is a professional association of lawyers as generally organized in countries following the Anglo-American types of jurisprudence. The word bar is derived from the old English/European custom of using a physical railing to separ ...

s in Barcelona and

Sabadell Sabadell () is a city in Catalonia, Spain. It is in the south of the ''comarca'' of Vallès Occidental and its joint capital (co-capital), on the River Ripoll, north of Barcelona. Sabadell is located above sea level. Sabadell pioneered the Ind ...

. Ciuró contested the 2007 local elections as a Convergence and Union (CiU) electoral alliance candidate in

and was elected. She was re-elected at the 2011 local election. She contested the 2011 general election as a CiU candidate in the Province of Barcelona and was elected to the Congress of Deputies. She was re-elected at the

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and

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general elections. At the 2017 regional election Ciuró was placed 57th on the Together for Catalonia (JxCat) alliance's list of candidates in the Province of Barcelona but the alliance only managed to win 17 seats in the province and as a result she failed to get elected. In July 2018 she was elected to the PDeCAT's executive directorate. In February 2018 Ciuró won the nomination to be the Catalan European Democratic Party (PDeCAT)'s mayoral candidate in Sabadell at the 2019 local elections. She contested the 2019 local elections as a JxCat candidate in Sabadell and was re-elected though she did not become mayor.

Personal life

Ciuró is married with two children.

Electoral history

References

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