Roger Torrent
| Roger Torrent | |
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Torrent in 2017
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| 15th President of the Parliament of Catalonia | |
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Assumed office 17 January 2018 |
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| Preceded by | Carme Forcadell |
| Member of the Parliament of Catalonia for the Province of Girona |
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Assumed office 17 December 2012 |
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| Mayor of Sarrià de Ter | |
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In office 16 June 2007 – 19 January 2018 |
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| Preceded by | Nicolás Pichardo Delgado |
| Succeeded by | Narcís Fajula |
| Member of the Municipality Council of Sarrià de Ter |
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In office 1999–2018 |
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Roger Torrent i Ramió 19 July 1979 Sarrià de Ter, Catalonia, Spain |
| Political party | Republican Left of Catalonia |
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Republican Left of Catalonia–Catalonia Yes |
| Residence | Sarrià de Ter |
| Alma mater | Autonomous University of Barcelona |
| Occupation | Urban planner |
Roger Torrent i Ramió (born 19 July 1979) is a Catalan nationalist politician and urban planner. A former mayor of the municipality of Sarrià de Ter in north-eastern Spain, Torrent has been President of the Parliament of Catalonia since January 2018.
Torrent was born on 19 July 1979 in Sarrià de Ter, a village in the Province of Girona in north-eastern Catalonia. He has a degree in political science and administration from the Autonomous University of Barcelona (UAB) and a master's degree in territorial and urban studies from the Polytechnic University of Catalonia and Pompeu Fabra University. He has a postgraduate degree in political communication from the UAB's Institut de Ciències Polítiques i Socials (Institute of Political and Social Sciences).
Torrent joined the Young Republican Left of Catalonia, the youth wing of the Republican Left of Catalonia (ERC), in 1998 and in 2000 joined the ERC. He contested the 1999 local elections as a Republican Left of Catalonia-Acord Municipal (ERC-AM) electoral alliance candidate in Sarrià de Ter and was elected. He was re-elected at the 2003 and 2007 local elections. After the 2007 election ERC-AM formed an administration with the Convergence and Union (CiU) and Torrent became Mayor of Sarrià de Ter. He was re-elected at the 2011 and 2015 local elections.
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