The ERC deputy Lluís Salvadó will be the new president of the Port of Barcelona

The new director of the Port of Barcelona, ​​Lluís Salvadó, in the Parliament of Catalonia. Massimiliano Minocri

Lluís Salvadó, deputy secretary general for internal coordination of Esquerra and current deputy in the Parliament of Catalonia, will be the new president of the Port of Barcelona, ​​according to

and various sources have confirmed to EL PAÍS.

The Republican assumes one of the most important public positions and succeeds Damià Calvet (Junts), who had shown himself in favor of continuing in office although he had made it available to the new Territory Minister, Juli Fernández, after the recomposition of the Government.

Salvadó (La Ràpita, 53 years old) is one of Oriol Junqueras' trusted men in ERC, and was already Secretary of Finance of the Generalitat between 2016 and 2017 when the Republican leader was the Minister of Economy.

Salvadó is one of those investigated for holding the illegal referendum on October 1 and is being prosecuted for disobedience, prevarication and embezzlement, as reported last week by the Catalonia Superior Court of Justice (TSJC).

The Board of the Parliament of Catalonia ruled out activating the mechanisms to suspend him as a deputy together with Josep Maria Jové, also prosecuted.

Salvadó has been a parliamentarian for Tarragona since 2012 and the judicial process puts his continuity in office on the air.

In the event of conviction, he could have to leave the presidency of the Barcelona Port Authority (APB), since some of the crimes of which he is accused carry the penalty of disqualification from holding public office.

The new president of the port, one of the most important and coveted positions in Catalonia, is an industrial engineer from the Escola Tècnica Superior d'Enginyers Industrials de Barcelona (UPC) and has a postgraduate degree in General Business Management from the Universitat Oberta de Catalunya .

Since 2019 he has been deputy secretary general for internal coordination in the pro-independence party.

The presidency of the Port of Barcelona depends on the appointment of the Territory Department and has a salary of 115,000 euros.

After the recomposition of the Catalan government, this was one of the last great public offices that were in the air.

Damià Calvet, who took over the leadership last year, had shown his predisposition for Junts to continue in the Government during the crisis in his party and ERC after the lightning strike of Vice President Jordi Puigneró of the Catalan government.

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