Miquel Sàmper i Rodríguez (born 1966) is a Spanish lawyer and politician from

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and, since 12 August 2024, Minister of Business and Labour of Catalonia of the

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. He was also

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from 2020 to 2021.

Career

He received a degree in Law and Political Science. Before he entered politics, he owned a law office in his hometown of

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. He was Dean of the Bar Association of Terrace, President of the Catalan Lawyers and Deputy President of the General Council of Spanish Lawyers. He was also one of the promoters of the first Mortgage Brokerage Office in Spain. In 2015, he was the

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candidate for mayor of Terrassa and finished in fourth place with three councilors. After the elections, he and his party abstained during the mayoral election, thereby facilitating the election of Jordi Ballart, the PSC candidate, as mayor. Four years later, he ran for re-election, this time under the name of Junts per Terrassa. However, he ran as number two on the party list, giving the number one spot to the exiled councilor

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. His party won two seats in that election. On 3 September 2020, during a cabinet reshuffle, he was chosen by Catalan President

Quim Torra Joaquim Torra i Pla (; born 28 December 1962), known as Quim Torra, is a Catalans, Catalan lawyer and journalist from Spain. He served as President of the Government of Catalonia from 17 May 2018 to 28 September 2020, when the Supreme Court of S ...

to replace

Miquel Buch Miquel Buch i Moya (born 3 August 1975) is a Spanish politician from Catalonia, Minister of the Interior (Catalonia), Minister of the Interior of the autonomous community between 2018 and 2020. He was previously mayor of Premià de Mar, a munici ...

as Minister of the Interior of the Generalitat de Catalunya.

References

1966 births Convergence and Union politicians Democratic Convergence of Catalonia politicians Interior ministers of Catalonia Living people Together for Catalonia (2020) politicians Torra Government {{Catalonia-politician-stub