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In this Catalan name, the first or paternal surname is Boadella and the second or maternal family name is Esteve; both are generally joined by the conjunction "i".
Genís Boadella
Member of the Congress of Deputies of Spain
Incumbent
Assumed office
3 December 2019
ConstituencyBarcelona
Personal details
Born
Genís Boadella i Esteve

(1979-03-20) 20 March 1979 (age 45)
Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain
CitizenshipSpanish
Political partyCatalan European Democratic Party
Other political
affiliations		Together for Catalonia
Alma materPompeu Fabra University
OccupationLawyer

Genís Boadella i Esteve (born 20 March 1979) is a Catalan lawyer and politician from Spain, and a member of the Congress of Deputies of Spain.

Early life

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Boadella was born on 20 March 1979 in Barcelona, Catalonia.[1][2] He has a degree in law from the Pompeu Fabra University.[3][4]

Career

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Boadella is a practicing lawyer and a member of the Barcelona Bar Association (ICAB).[1] He was a lawyer in a law firm specialising in labour law and social security from 2000 to 2002.[1] From 2002 to 2007 he was a lawyer and assistant manager of Fundació Catalana Tutelar Aspanias, a foundation for the protection of people with disabilities.[1][2] Since 2007 he has run his own firm, Boadella Esteve Advocats.[2] He was president of the Young Lawyers Group (GAJ) of ICAB from 2011 to 2013.[1][2] He was a promoter and first co-ordinator of the group of advisors of the Catalan Association of Executives, Managers and Employers (ACEDE) from 2013 to 2015.[1] He is a member of the Observatory of Private Law of Catalonia.[1]

Boadella was a member of the Partit per la Independència (PI) before joining the Nationalist Youth of Catalonia (JNC) in 2000.[2] He was president of the Sant Martí branch of the Democratic Convergence of Catalonia (CDC) from 2008 to 2016.[1] He is currently a member of the Catalan European Democratic Party (PDeCAT)'s national executive and vice-president of its Barcelona branch.[5][6] He was a district councillor in Sant Martí from 2009 to 2019 and spokesperson for the Convergence and Union (CiU) in the district from 2013 to 2019.[1][2] He was a member of the district government commission for public roads, security, prevention and mobility (2011-2015).[1]

At the 2016 general election Boadella was placed 14th on the CDC's list of candidates in the Province of Barcelona but the party only managed to win four seats in the province and as a result he failed to get elected.[7][8] At the April 2019 general election he was placed fifth on the Together for Catalonia (JuntsxCat) electoral alliance's list of candidates in the Province of Barcelona but the alliance only managed to win three seats in the province and as a result he failed to get elected.[9][10] He contested the November 2019 general election as a JuntsxCat electoral alliance candidate in the Province of Barcelona and was elected to the Congress of Deputies.[11][12]

Electoral history

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Electoral history of Genís Boadella
Election Constituency Party Alliance No. Result
2016 general[7][8] Province of Barcelona Democratic Convergence of Catalonia 14 Not elected
2019 April general[9][10] Province of Barcelona Catalan European Democratic Party Together for Catalonia 5 Not elected
2019 November general[11][12] Province of Barcelona Catalan European Democratic Party Together for Catalonia 4 Elected

References

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  1. ^ a b c d e f g h i j "Members: XIV Legislatura ( 2019-Actualidad ) - Boadella Esteve, Genís" (in Spanish). Madrid, Spain: Congress of Deputies. Retrieved 27 March 2020.
  2. ^ a b c d e f Sallés, Quico (15 September 2016). "Empieza la dura batalla para dirigir el Partit Demòcrata en Barcelona". La Vanguardia (in Spanish). Barcelona, Spain. Retrieved 27 March 2020.
  3. ^ Espada, F.; Espiga, F. (16 September 2016). ""La prioritat és fer partit i una alternativa a Colau"". El Punt (in Catalan). Girona, Spain. Retrieved 27 March 2020.
  4. ^ Salvador, Alexander (24 February 2014). ""Un despatx d'advocats creix amb bona salut si ho fa gradual i progressivament"". El Jurista (in Catalan). Barcelona, Spain. Retrieved 27 March 2020.
  5. ^ "Direcció Executiva" (in Catalan). Barcelona, Spain: Catalan European Democratic Party. Retrieved 27 March 2020.
  6. ^ "Genís Boadella i Francesc de Dalmases, números 5 i 6 de la llista de JxCat al Congrés per Barcelona". La República (in Catalan). Barcelona, Spain. Catalan News Agency. 20 March 2019. Retrieved 27 March 2020.
  7. ^ a b "Otras Disposiciones: Juntas Electorales Provinciales - Junta Electoral de Girona" (PDF). Boletín Oficial del Estado (in Spanish). Madrid, Spain: Government of Spain. 25 May 2016. p. 34533. Retrieved 11 June 2018.
  8. ^ a b "Consulta de Resultados Electorales: Congresso / Junio 2016" (in Spanish). Madrid, Spain: Ministry of the Interior. Retrieved 27 March 2020.
  9. ^ a b "Otras Disposiciones: Junta Electoral Central - Elecciones generales. Proclamación de candidaturas" (PDF). Boletín Oficial del Estado (in Spanish). No. 79. Madrid, Spain: Government of Spain. 2 April 2019. p. 34233. ISSN 0212-033X. Retrieved 27 May 2019.
  10. ^ a b "Consulta de Resultados Electorales: Congresso / Abril 2019" (in Spanish). Madrid, Spain: Ministry of the Interior. Retrieved 27 March 2020.
  11. ^ a b "Otras Disposiciones: Juntas Electorales Provinciales – Elecciones generales. Proclamación de candidaturas" (PDF). Boletín Oficial del Estado (in Spanish). No. 248. Madrid, Spain: Government of Spain. 15 October 2019. p. 113508. ISSN 0212-033X. Retrieved 15 October 2019.
  12. ^ a b "Consulta de Resultados Electorales: Congresso / Noviembre 2019" (in Spanish). Madrid, Spain: Ministry of the Interior. Retrieved 27 March 2020.
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