Maria Teresa Jordà i Roura (born 19 June 1972) is a Spanish politician from

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and the current Minister of Climate Action, Food and Rural Agenda of

. She was previously the Minister of Agriculture, Livestock, Fisheries and Food of Catalonia, member of the

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and mayor of

Ripoll Ripoll () is the capital of the ''comarca'' of Ripollès, in the province of Girona, Catalonia, Spain. It is located on confluence of the Ter River and its tributary Freser, next to the Pyrenees near the French border. The population was 11,05 ...

, a

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in north-east

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Early life

Jordà was born on 19 June 1972 in

. She has a degree in modern and contemporary history from the Autonomous University of Barcelona.

Career

Jordà contested the 1999 local elections as a

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-Acord Municipal (ERC-AM)

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candidate in Ripoll and was elected. She was re-elected at the 2003 local elections. At the 2003 election ERC-AM formed a pact with the Socialists' Party of Catalonia-Municipal Progress and Junts per Ripoll- Initiative for Catalonia Greens-Agreement for Municipal Progress alliances to gain control of the municipality from Convergence and Union (Ciu) and Jordà became mayor of Ripoll. She was re-elected at the

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and

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local elections. ERC-AM lost control of the municipality to CiU in 2011 and Jordà ceased being mayor. She was re-elected at the 2015 local elections. Govern de Catalunya foto oficial 2018

Jordà was vice-president of the Fundació Eduard Soler de Ripoll, president of the Fundació Guifré and a member of the executive of the Federació de Municipis de Catalunya. Jordà contested the 2011 general election as a Republican Left of Catalonia–Catalonia Yes (ERC–CatSí) candidate in the

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and was elected to the

. She was re-elected at the

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and

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general elections. She resigned from the municipality council in July 2017 to concentrate on her Congress of Deputies work. On 19 May 2018 newly elected

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nominated a new government in which Jordà was to be Minister of Agriculture, Livestock, Fisheries and Food. She was sworn in on 2 June 2018 at the

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Political positions

In 2013 she defended the effectiveness of

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and other alternative treatments in the

. In July 2018, as Minister of Agriculture, Livestock, Fisheries and Food of the Catalan government, she promoted the consumption of raw milk in the region.

Electoral history

References

External links

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