| Lluís Miquel Recoder i Miralles | |
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| Minister of Planning and Sustainability of the Generalitat de Catalunya | |
| Incumbent | |
| Assumed office December 29, 2010 |
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| President | Artur Mas i Gavarró |
| Preceded by | Joaquim Nadal i Farreras (as Minister of Town and Country Town and Public Works) Francesc Baltasar i Albesa (as Minister of Environment and Housing) |
| Mayor of Sant Cugat del Vallès | |
| In office 1999 – December 28, 2010 |
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| Preceded by | Joan Aymerich i Aroca |
| Succeeded by | Mercè Conesa i Pagès |
| Personal details | |
| Born | November 29, 1958 Barcelona, Barcelonès, Catalonia |
| Political party | Democratic Convergence of Catalonia |
| Occupation | Lawyer |
Lluís Miquel Recoder i Miralles (Barcelona, September 29, 1958) is a Catalan politician, currently holding the office of Minister of Planning and Sustainability of the Generalitat de Catalunya since December 29, 2010, before it he was mayor in Sant Cugat del Vallès in Barcelona Province, Catalonia, Spain. He holds a degree in law from the University of Barcelona, with a specialization in urban law and development. He is a member a Convergència Democràtica de Catalunya, or CDC, and founder of the Joventut Nacionalista de Catalunya, or Nationalist Youth of Catalonia, the youth sector of the CDC, of which he was secretary and president from 1986 to 1991. In the Catalan elections of 1999 and 2003 he was elected diputat of the Catalan Parliament, but left to dedicate himself to municipal politics in 2006.
Recoder has described himself as a Catalan nationalist.
In early 2010, proposed that the three largest political parties in Catalonia, Convergence and Union, Republican Left of Catalonia, and Socialists' Party of Catalonia, form a tripartite coalition in order to combat a possible overturn of the Statute of Autonomy of Catalonia by the Constitutional Court of Spain, indicating that such a coalition could be a "solution in a difficult time for Catalonia." [1] As of May 18, 2010, the aforementioned political parties, along with the Initiative for Catalonia Greens, agreed to fight together to reform the Constitutional Court of Spain. [2]
| Political offices | ||
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| Preceded by Joaquim Nadal i Farreras (as Minister of Town and Country Town and Public Works) |
Minister of Planning and Sustainability of the Generalitat de Catalunya 2010 – present |
Succeeded by Incumbent |
| Preceded by Joan Aymerich i Aroca |
Mayor of Sant Cugat del Vallès 1999 – 2010 |
Succeeded by Mercè Conesa i Pagès |
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