The former president of Congress and PSC candidate in the last general elections of 23-J, Meritxell Batet, has publicly announced, through social networks, that she is resigning her seat as a deputy in the Lower House and that she is leaving the political front line. . The socialist leader has made this known on social networks without explaining the reasons for her resignation, only pointing out that she has assessed that “it is the best time to leave active politics with the satisfaction of the work done and the duty fulfilled.” .
Batet leaves behind 19 “intense” years, qualifies, as a deputy, Minister of the Government (of Territorial Policy and Public Function) and president of the Congress of the last legislature. It is precisely the intensity of that political career that has led her to make a decision framed in her personal sphere, according to sources from the PSC, and without her currently leading to a clear professional destiny. In any case, her resignation comes the same day that the reform of the Congressional regulations for the use of all official languages ??in the Chamber has been registered.
The leader, who led the great electoral results of the PSC in Catalonia in the last elections -19 seats, 13 more than those obtained by the PP and 12 more than those achieved by Junts and ERC respectively-, points out in a thread of X -before Twitter- that he leaves “with the pride of having served a collective project that seeks, above all, to improve people’s lives and transform society”, a project to which he claims to have “given himself body and soul and whom I will continue to serve wherever I go”.
The leader expresses her gratitude to all the people who have trusted her for so many years, especially the leader of the PSOE and acting President of the Government, Pedro Sánchez, and the first secretary of the PSC, Salvador Illa. And she is convinced that “soon there will be a new government of progress” led by Sánchez that “will continue with the advances and reforms that Spanish society needs.”
Born in Barcelona (1973), Batet studied Law with scholarships and became a professor of Administrative Law and Constitutional Law at the Universitat Pompeu Fabra. Of humble origin and a lover of dance, she began her political career in the PSC at the hands of Narcís Serra, when he was the first secretary of the PSC, until José Montilla encouraged her in 2004 to jump to Congress as a deputy coinciding with the victory of José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero.
In the 2014 primaries for the leadership of the PSOE, Batet supported Eduardo Madina, but the winner of those internal elections, Pedro Sánchez, incorporated her into his team and took her as number two in Madrid in 2015. Such was the trust that The president stated in her that after the motion of censure against Mariano Rajoy Sánchez, he once again opted for her as Minister of Territorial Policy and Public Function, with the aim of initiating the political thaw with the Generalitat of Catalonia after the application of article 155 in Catalonia . During her mandate, Batet recovered the State-Generalitat bilateral commission.
