Joan Herrera i Torres
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Joan Herrera i Torres (
Iniciativa per Catalunya
.
Education
Herrera gained a law degree from the
Universitat Pompeu Fabra
.
Political career
He began his political activism in the grouping
eco-socialist, a definition later used by the grouping Initiative for Catalonia Greens
(ICV) which Herrera joined.
As a member of ICV, he was responsible for the social movements of the party and coordinated, among others, the "No to War" campaign against the Iraq war for ICV in 2002 and 2003.
On 14 March 2004, he was elected to the
Barcelona Province as head of the ICV list and was re-elected at the subsequent election in March 2008.[1]
In January 2007, he was elected vice-president of ICV. Since the ninth meeting of ICV, held in Sabadell in November 2008, is secretary general of the group.
In 2009, he sought to publicly condemn Pope
Benedict XVI for having argued that condoms may in fact do more harm than good in the fight against AIDS.[2]
References
External links
- website of Joan Herrera (in Catalan).
- Joan Herrera tab of the Spanish Congress (in Spanish)
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