Dolors Montserrat

Montserrat has been regent and spokesperson of the People's Party in Sant Sadurní d'Anoia City Council since 2007, member of the Executive Committee of the PP of Catalonia and deputy for the province of Barcelona to the Spanish general election of 2008 and 2011. In the 10th legislature occupied, between 2011 and 2016, the third vice presidency of the Congress of the Deputies.[1]

In May 2012, Montserrat acceded to the Deputy Secretariat for Organization and Social Action of the PP of Catalonia, in the remodeling of the leadership resulting from its 13th Congress.[2]

Montserrat has been president of the Board of Young Cofrades of Cava of Sant Sadurní d'Anoia.[3]

On 4 November 2016, Montserrat swore her office as Minister of Health, Social Services and Equality in the government of Mariano Rajoy.[4] In 2017, she led the Spanish government’s unsuccessful campaign to host the European Medicines Agency (EMA) in Barcelona.[5] She was rejected by the Congress of Deputies for her mismanagement of the Ministry on 29 May 2018.[6] On 26 July 2018, was named spokesperson of the PP parliamentary group after Rajoy Government was ousted and Pablo Casado was elected president of the party.[7]

For the 2019 European Parliament election Montserrat was the head candidate for Spain with the People's Party.[8] As Member of the European Parliament, she serves as the chair of the Committee on Petitions and member of the Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Food Safety. In this capacity, she is the Parliament’s rapporteur on the EU’s pharmaceutical strategy.[9] She later also joined the Special Committee on Beating Cancer (2020)[10] and the Special Committee on the COVID-19 pandemic (2022).[11][12] Since 2021, she has been part of the Parliament's delegation to the Conference on the Future of Europe.[13]

In addition to her committee assignments, Montserrat is part of the MEPs Against Cancer group[14] and the European Parliament Intergroup on Children’s Rights.[15]