Núria Marín

Núria Marín Martínez (born 26 December 1963) is a Socialists' Party of Catalonia politician. She has been a city councillor in Catalonia's second largest city, L'Hospitalet de Llobregat, since 1995 and its mayor since 2008, and also President of the Provincial Deputation of Barcelona since 2019. She has been the party's president since December 2019.

In this Spanish name, the first or paternal surname is Marín and the second or maternal family name is Martínez.

Biography

Marín became mayor Celestino Corbacho's first deputy in 2007. When he resigned the following year to become Minister of Work and Immigration, she was elected as his successor, with 18 votes out of 25. She became L'Hospitalet de Llobregat's third mayor since the Spanish transition to democracy, and the first woman in the office.[1]

In 2011, she was elected to the Provincial Deputation of Barcelona, and resigned in December 2014 to concentrate on her role as mayor.[2] In July 2019, she was invested as President of the Provincial Deputation, with the deputies from her party and Together for Catalonia voting in favour.[3] That November, she was elected President of the Serra de Collserola Natural Park consortium.[4]

In 2017, Marín was elected to one of three seats held by the Socialists' Party of Catalonia (PSC) in the executive of the Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE). Formerly vice secretary to PSC leader Miquel Iceta, she replaced Àngel Ros as party president in December 2019.[5] In the 2019 Spanish local elections, she recovered the majority in the city hall that her party had lost eight years earlier, by increasing their seats from 11 to 14 out of 27.[6]

Marín was arrested and bailed in December 2020 for alleged diversion of funds.[7] The case against her was closed in July 2022.[8] In the 2023 Spanish local elections, her party was the most voted in each neighbourhood of L'Hospitalet de Llobregat, but nonetheless lost its majority.[9]

References
  1. "Nuria [sic] Marín sustituye a Celestino Corbacho en la alcaldía de L'Hospitalet de Llobregat" [Núria Marín replaces Celestino Corbacho as mayor of L'Hospitalet de Llobregat]. El Mundo (in Spanish). 21 April 2008. Retrieved 20 March 2021.
  2. "Núria Marín deja la Diputación de Barcelona para centrarse en L'Hospitalet" [Núria Marín leaves the Deputation of Barcelona to concentrate on L'Hospitalet]. Europa Press. 9 December 2014. Retrieved 20 March 2021.
  3. "La socialista Núria Marín, nueva presidenta de la Diputación de Barcelona" [Socialist Núria Marín, new president of the Deputation of Barcelona] (in Spanish). El Plural. 11 July 2019. Retrieved 20 March 2021.
  4. "Núria Marín asume la presidencia del Consorcio del Parc Natural de la Serra de Collserola (Barcelona)" [Núria Marín assumes the presidency of the Serra de Collserola Natural Park (Barcelona)] (in Spanish). Europa Press. 21 November 2019. Retrieved 20 March 2021.
  5. Rios, Pere (12 December 2019). "Núria Marín será la presidenta del PSC" [Núria Marín will be the president of the PSC]. El País (in Spanish). Retrieved 20 March 2021.
  6. Marín, Héctor (17 June 2019). "Núria Marín se compromete a liderar otra "gran transformación" de L'Hospitalet" [Núria Marín promises to lead another "great transformation" of L'Hospitalet]. El Mundo (in Spanish). Retrieved 11 June 2023.
  7. Sánchez, Guillem (12 December 2020). "Núria Marín, imputada por una trama de desvío de subvenciones en L'Hospitalet" [Núria Marín, charged with diversion of funds plot in L'Hospitalet]. El Periódico de Catalunya (in Spanish). Retrieved 20 March 2021.
  8. Solé Altimira, Oriol (12 July 2022). "La jueza archiva el caso contra Núria Marín por el desvío de fondos del Consell Esportiu de L'Hospitalet" [Judge closes the case against Núria Marín for diversion of funds from the Sports Council of L'Hospitalet]. elDiario.es (in Spanish). Retrieved 11 June 2023.
  9. Rebollo, Àlex (30 May 2023). "La hegemonía de Núria Marín en L'Hospitalet: el PSC vuelve a ganar en todos los barrios el 28M" [Núria Marín's hegemony in L'Hospitalet: PSC wins again in all neighbourhoods in 28 May elections]. El Periódico de Catalunya (in Spanish). Retrieved 11 June 2023.
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