Roger Montañola i Busquets (born 29 March 1986) is a Spanish politician and political scientist, who was a member of the

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within the Convergence i Unió parliamentary group. A member of the

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(UDC) until 2016, he was one of the promoters of

Lliures Free ( ca, Lliures) was a Catalan political party founded in October 2016 and registered in December by former members of Democratic Convergence of Catalonia (CDC) and Democratic Union of Catalonia (UDC), including former CDC regional minister in J ...

Biography

Montañola was born in

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, and joined the

at the age of eighteen. Graduated in Political Science from

Pompeu Fabra University Pompeu Fabra University ( ca, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, UPF, ; es, link=no, Universidad Pompeu Fabra) is a public university located in the city of Barcelona, Catalonia in Spain. The university was created by the Autonomous Government of Catalo ...

, he has a postgraduate degree in Local Governance from the

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and has completed a program on Leadership in Public Management at IESE -

University of Navarra , image = UNAV.svg , latin_name = Universitas Studiorum Navarrensis , established = 17 October 1952 , type = Private, Roman Catholic , chancellor = Fernando Ocáriz Braña , president = María Iraburu Eliz ...

. In 2006, he completed part of his studies in Göteborg, Sweden. In 2009, he became secretary general of the Unió de Joves at the UDC, and was also part of the Permanent Commission of the Democratic Union and the CENF of Convergence and Union. From 2007 to 2011, he was a councillor in Premiá de Mar. From 2010 to 2012, he was a deputy in the

. In March 2016 he founded the platform "Twenty50" together with Xavier Cima and Xavier Salvatella. In November of that year, Montañola, then linked to the Lliures movement (which would choose to become a political party in 2017), announced his withdrawal from the UDC, alleging an incompatibility between his status as a member of the UDC and that of an activist in another motion. He is the

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for the

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in the

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References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Montañola, Roger 1986 births Living people 21st-century Spanish politicians Members of the 10th Parliament of Catalonia Members of the 9th Parliament of Catalonia Democratic Union of Catalonia politicians Municipal councillors in the province of Barcelona Autonomous University of Barcelona alumni Pompeu Fabra University alumni University of Navarra alumni Politicians from Barcelona