Fèlix Larrosa

Fèlix Larrosa i Piqué (born 25 September 1964)^[1] is a Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE) politician. He has been a city councillor in Lleida in Catalonia since 2011, and mayor from 2018 to 2019 and again since 2023. He was previously a member of the Congress of Deputies from 2008 to 2011.

Biography

Larrosa was born in Lleida, Catalonia. His father was Félix Larrosa Gaston (1932–2018), a footballer who played as a goalkeeper in the 1950s for Segunda División clubs UD Huesca and UE Lleida.^[2][3] As of 2018, Larrosa was married and had three daughters.^[1]

Larrosa has a law degree, and a diploma in tourism from ESADE, a private business school in Barcelona.^[1] Representing the Socialists' Party of Catalonia (PSC), he was elected to the Congress of Deputies in the 2008 Spanish general election by the Lleida constituency.^[4] In 2011, he was elected to his hometown's city council.^[1] He became second deputy to mayor Àngel Ros in 2015, and the mayor resigned to become the ambassador to Andorra. Larrosa ran in the primary against the first deputy, Montse Mínguez. He won the nomination and was elected mayor by the eight PSC members of the council and the one from United to Advance.^[5]

In the 2019 local elections, the first since the Catalan declaration of independence, the PSC lost Lleida to Catalan nationalist parties. Miquel Pueyo [es] of the Republican Left of Catalonia (ERC) was installed with support from Together for Catalonia.^[6] The PSC and Larrosa recovered the city in 2023.^[7]

References

1. Echauz, Pau (3 September 2018). "Larrosa: "No soy Ros, tengo otros valores"" [Larrosa: "I'm not Ros, I have different values"]. La Vanguardia (in Spanish). Retrieved 15 August 2023.
2. Echauz, Pau (28 August 2018). "Fèlix Larrosa será mañana nuevo alcalde de Lleida" [Fèlix Larrosa will be the new mayor of Lleida tomorrow]. La Vanguardia (in Spanish). Retrieved 15 August 2023.
3. "Larrosa". BDFutbol. Retrieved 15 August 2023.
4. "9-M Congreso.- Relación de los 350 diputados elegidos en los comicios del domingo" [9 March Conrgess elections.- List of the 350 deputies elected in the Sunday polling] (in Spanish). Europa Press. 10 March 2008. Retrieved 15 August 2023.
5. "Fèlix Larrosa (PSC), elegido alcalde de Lleida" [Fèlix Larrosa (PSC), elected mayor of Lleida] (in Spanish). Europa Press. 29 August 2018. Retrieved 15 August 2023.
6. "Esquerra arrebata Tarragona y Lleida a los socialistas que se reafirman en L'Hospitalet y gobiernan en Castelldefels" [Republican Left of Catalonia snatch Tarragona and Lleida from the Socialists who reaffirm themselves in L'Hospitalet and govern in Castelldefels]. El Mundo (in Spanish). 15 June 2019. Retrieved 15 August 2023.
7. "El PSC recupera su feudo histórico de Lleida con Félix Larrosa" [PSC recover their historic fiefdom of Lleida with Fèlix Larrosa]. El Periódico de Catalunya (in Spanish). 17 June 2023. Retrieved 15 August 2023.