Concepció Ferrer Casals (born 27 January 1938) is a Spanish philologist, teacher and politician, the Second Deputy Defender of the People of Spain since 2012.

Biography

With a licentiate in Romance Philology from the

University of Barcelona The University of Barcelona (official name in ; UB), formerly also known as Central University of Barcelona (), is a public research university located in the city of Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain. It was established in 1450. With 76,000 students, ...

, since the 1970s Concepció Ferrer has lived in

Figueres Figueres (; ) is the capital city of Alt Empordà county, in the Girona region, Catalonia, Spain. The town is the birthplace of artist Salvador Dalí, and houses the Dalí Theatre and Museum, a large museum designed by Dalí himself which att ...

, where she has been a professor of contemporary literature. In 1977 she joined the

Democratic Union of Catalonia The Democratic Union of Catalonia (; , UDC), frequently shortened as Union (; ), was a regionalist, Christian-democratic political party in the Catalonia region of Spain existing between 1931 and 2017. Together with Democratic Convergence of C ...

(UDC). In the municipal elections of 1979, she was elected councilor of the municipality of Figueres. Later, she obtained the Catalonian Parliament seat for the constituency of

Girona Girona (; ) is the capital city of the Province of Girona in the autonomous community of Catalonia, Spain, at the confluence of the Ter, Onyar, Galligants, and Güell rivers. The city had an official population of 106,476 in 2024, but the p ...

when the first elections were held after the approval of the Statute of Catalan Autonomy, renewing her mandate in 1984, both times within the candidacy of

Convergence and Union Convergence and Union (, CiU; ) was a Catalan nationalist electoral alliance in Catalonia, Spain. It was a federation of two constituent parties, the larger Democratic Convergence of Catalonia (CDC) and its smaller counterpart, the Democratic ...

(CiU). From 1980 to 1984 she served as First Vice-President of the Catalan Parliament. In the European elections of 1987 she was elected deputy of the

European Parliament The European Parliament (EP) is one of the two legislative bodies of the European Union and one of its seven institutions. Together with the Council of the European Union (known as the Council and informally as the Council of Ministers), it ...

, a seat that she renewed in the successive electoral calls until 2004. At the European level, she was vice-president of the

European People's Party The European People's Party (EPP) is a European political party with Christian democracy, Christian democratic, liberal conservatism, liberal-conservative, and conservative member parties. A transnational organisation, it is composed of other p ...

and president of the Unión Femenina Democristiana Europea. She has been a member of the Academic and Social Council of the , and in 2012 she was elected Second Deputy of the Defender of the People, a responsibility she currently holds. In 2011, she was awarded the

Creu de Sant Jordi The Creu de Sant Jordi (, in English language, English 'St George's Cross') is one of the highest civil distinctions awarded in Catalonia (Spain), surpassed only in protocol by the Gold Medal of the Generalitat of Catalonia, Gold Medal of the G ...

Works

* ''El Parlament Europeu, motor de la construcció europea'' * ''Nacionalisme i europeisme'' (1990) * ''Reflexions europees'' (1994) * ''La Utopia d'Europa'' (1994), * ''Petita Història d'Europa'' (1998), * ''Una veu a Europa'' (1999), * ''Torn de paraula'' (2004), * ''Petita Història dels Drets Humans'' (2010),

References

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