Carola Miró i Bedós

Carola Miró i Bedós (1965 – 4 May 2024) was a Spanish Catalan teacher and First Lady of Catalonia between 2018 and 2020, during the mandate of the 131st President of the Government of Catalonia, held by her husband Quim Torra.[1][2]

In this Catalan name, the first or paternal surname is Miró and the second or maternal family name is Bedós; both are generally joined by the conjunction "i".

Carola Miró i Bedós
First Lady of the Government of Catalonia
In office
17 May 2018 – 29 September 2020
MonarchFelipe VI
Personal details
Born1965 (1965)
Barcelona, Spain
Died4 May 2024 (aged 58)
Salt, Spain
SpouseQuim Torra
Children3
OccupationTeacher

Biography

Miró worked as a teacher at the Thau charter school in Barcelona, which belongs to the Cultural Institution of the Center of Catholic Influence (ICCIC). In 2007, she asked for a leave of absence to live with her family for a year in Switzerland, where her husband worked for the insurance company the Winterthur Group.[3] Miró and Torra had studied together at the St. Ignatius College and had three children.[4]

In the political field, Miró had been part of the association Reagrupament for the demarcation of Barcelona in the 2010 regional election, in 77th position.[5] Ideologically, like her husband, she was a practicing Catholic and a supporter of Catalan independence.[6]

Illness and death

In 2020, Miró was diagnosed with cancer, at which time her husband, then in office as Catalan president, temporarily suspended all of his public agenda.[7] The disease did not remit, and on 4 May 2024, she died at the Hospital Santa Caterina in Salt, having been hospitalised in a very serious condition for some time. She was 58.[8]

References
  1. Hinojosa, Silvia (19 May 2018). "La maestra que se ve 'primeradama' sin esperarlo" (PDF). La Vanguardia. p. 4. Retrieved 27 October 2019.
  2. Jorro, Ignasi (4 May 2024). "Fallece en Girona la esposa del 'expresident' Quim Torra" (in Spanish). Crónica Global. Archived from the original on 4 May 2024. Retrieved 5 May 2024.
  3. "Qui és Carola Miró, la dona del president Quim Torra". El Nacional. 14 May 2018. Retrieved 14 May 2018.
  4. "Carola Miró, la primera dama de Catalunya". Tot es mou. 16 May 2018. Retrieved 16 May 2018.
  5. "EDICTE d'1 de novembre de 2010, pel qual es fan públiques les candidatures proclamades per la Junta Electoral Provincial de Barcelona per a les eleccions al Parlament de Catalunya" (PDF). Generalitat de Catalunya. Retrieved 14 May 2018.
  6. "Así es Carola Miró, la esposa del president Quim Torra". La Vanguardia. Archived from the original on 3 July 2018. Retrieved 27 October 2019.
  7. "Mor Carola Miró, dona de Quim Torra, després d'anys de lluita contra el càncer". Diari Ara. 5 May 2024. Retrieved 5 May 2024.
  8. "Muere Carola Miró, la esposa del expresidente de la Generalitat Quim Torra" (in Spanish). El Periodico.
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