Jordi Pujol

Jordi Pujol (born in 1930 with Barcelona), of its complete name Jordi Pujol I Soley , is a politician Catalan.

Nationalist militant Catalan as of his more young age, it passes nearly three years in prison to the beginning of the year 1960 to have written a lampoon against Franco. He is tortured there. Founder in 1974 of the political party Convergència Democràtica de Catalunya (C.D.C.), it assures the General secretary of it. He wants to promote the national spirit of the Catalans and to create economic and financial structures sufficient to ensure the development of his country. At the time of the general elections of March 1979, with the head of the center coalition and separatist, CiU (" Convergència I Unió") (Convergence and Union), he is elected minister (conseller) Généralité of Catalonia. In May 1980, he becomes the president about it.

He is re-elected in 1984, 1988 and 1992, each time by carrying out CiU in the majority absolute, then at the time of the anticipated elections of 1995 and 1999. He takes gradually withdraws political life after the elections of 2003, which see the accession of the Socialiste Pasqual Maragall with the Catalan presidency. He is always President and Founder president of C.D.C. He was decorated by many international institutions, of which those of Quebec (National order), French Republic (Honor and Fatherland/Légion of honor) and Cultural Institute of Brittany Ordre of Hermine in 1992. French-speaking Honoris Causa of universities: Light of Lyon 2, Paris 8, Toulouse and Catholique of Brussels.

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