Salvador Milà i Solsona

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Minister of the Environment and Housing of the Generalitat de Catalunya (2003 to 2006)
Salvador Milà i Solsona
Image:Salvador Mila.jpg
Born	1953 Barcelona (Barcelonès)
Political party	ICV

Salvador Milà i Solsona is the actual Minister of the Environment and Housing of the Catalan Government by the ICV party.

[edit] Education

Salvador Milà i Solsona was born in 1953. He studied Law at the Universitat de Barcelona (between 1970 and 1975). Since then, he has been working as a lawyer in Mataró, specializing in administrative, urban development and civil law.

[edit] Political background

In 1975 he officially enrolled the PSUC, after years of collaboration with it and Bandera Roja (Red Flag), and became a member of the Democratic Assembly of Mataró.

[edit] Institutional background

Salvador Milà was elected Town Councilor of Mataró in 1979 for the PSUC list, headed by Antoni Segarra, where he took care of urban development until 1984.

In 1987, he headed the ICV lists, and repeated this heading in 1991, 1995 and 1999 elections. Between 1992 and 1999 he was again in charge of urban development, but in 1999 he passed over to the opposition. He left his municipal responsibilities in the elections of 2003.

Salvador Milà is member of the National Political Committee of ICV, and collaborates with the Europe Thematic Organization.

He was nominated Minister of the Environment and Housing of the Government of the Generalitat de Catalunya on 16 December 2003.