Ernest Maragall, Date of Birth, Place of Birth
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Catalan politician
Date of Birth: 05-Jan-1943
Place of Birth: Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain
Profession: politician, economist
Nationality: Spain
Zodiac Sign: Capricorn 
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About Ernest Maragall
- Ernest Maragall i Mira (born 5 January 1943, in Barcelona) is a Spanish economist, politician, member of the Parliament of Catalonia and former Minister of Foreign Action, Institutional Relations and Transparency of Catalonia.
- He was previously Minister of Education, a member of the European Parliament and a member of Barcelona City Council (BCC). Born in 1943 in Barcelona, Maragall joined the anti-fascist Workers' Front of Catalonia as a youth.
- He worked in advertising and marketing before holding several positions in BCC.
- A socialist, Maragall was one of the founders of the Socialist Convergence of Catalonia and its successors, the Socialist Party of Catalonia–Congress and Socialists' Party of Catalonia (PSC).
- He left the PSC in 2012 due to its opposition to Catalan independence and founded the pro-independence New Catalan Left which later merged with others to form the Left Movement.
- He is currently a member of the Republican Left of Catalonia. Maragall was a member of BCC from 1995 to 2004 and held several senior positions in the socialist administration, including that of his brother Pasqual who was Mayor of Barcelona till 1997.
- He was elected to the Parliament of Catalonia in November 2003 but resigned upon being appointed secretary of the regional government presided by his brother Pasqual.
- He was re-elected to the Catalan Parliament in November 2006 but resigned again upon being appointed Minister of Education in the regional government presided by José Montilla.
- He was re-elected in November 2010 but the socialists lost power to the Convergence and Union and Maragall lost his ministerial post. Maragall was a member of the European Parliament from July 2014 to December 2016 and in December 2017 he was re-elected to the Catalan Parliament.
- In June 2018 he became Minister of Foreign Action, Institutional Relations and Transparency.
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