Montserrat Candini i Puig

Montserrat Candini i Puig (4 September 1957 – 19 July 2024)

In 1996, Candini became chief of cabinet to the Catalan Minister of Agriculture. In 2003, she was elected to the city council in Calella as number two on the Convergence and Union (CiU) list. After two terms in opposition, she was the first woman elected mayor of Calella in 2011. She stood down temporarily in November 2021 and permanently in May 2022 due to cancer.

In tandem with her municipal offices, Candini was a member of the Senate of Spain from 2008 to 2015, and of the Parliament of Catalonia from 2015 to 2017. and was elected as the list won 32 deputies.