Ramona Barrufet i Santacana

Ramona Barrufet i Santacana (born 1959) is a Catalonian teacher and politician who has been a deputy in the Parliament of Catalonia for the IX, X and XI legislatures and has been the Fourth Secretary on the Parliament's Board since 2015. She is a member of the Democratic Convergence of Catalonia party (CDC).

Career

Born in Juneda, Garriges, in 1959, Ramona Barrufet i Santacana is a graduate of the School of Teaching at the University of Lleida and has worked as a teacher of music and French; as of 2017, she has taught at the Dominiques de Juneda College for a decade, and before that she was a secondary school teacher at the Maristes Montserrat de Lleida School for eleven years. She is a member of the Federation of Education Workers of the General Union of Workers (FETE-UGT).

In 1981, she joined the Democratic Convergence of Catalonia (CDC). She was elected to the City Council of Arbeca in 1998 and served as the city's mayor from 2005 to 2007. She was also a member of the Comarcal Council of Garrigues between 2003 and 2011 and was the CDC's Regional President for Garrigues from 2003 to 2012, after which she joined the party's National Executive Committee. In 2010, she was elected to the Catalan Parliament as a Deputy and continues to serve as of 2017; for the 2015 elections and subsequently, she has been a member of the Together for Yes (Junts pel Sí) alliance consisting of the CDC, the Republican Left of Catalonia (ERC), Democrats of Catalonia (DC) and the Left Movement (MES). She was appointed the Fourth Secretary on the Parliament's Board in 2015 and also remains in that role as of 2017.