page_title: Alba Vergés
section_title: Career
hierarchical_section_title: Alba Vergés / Career
caption_attribution_description: Català: Acte de presentació de tots els candidats de la llista Junts pel Sí a Barcelona, al Psg.Lluís Companys. (28-8-2015)
context_page_description: Alba Vergés i Bosch is a Catalan economist, politician and the current Minister of Health of Catalonia.
context_section_description: Vergés worked as an economist in the elderly care and as a junior programmer in information and communications technology, developing clothing store management software. She was an administrative officer at the Colegio Oficial de Agentes Comerciales de Barcelona in Anoia and in charge of administration, accounting and finance at the Sociosanitario Consortium of Igualada, an organisation that manages public elder care centres, from 2008 to 2012.
  Vergés joined the Republican Left of Catalonia (ERC) in 2011 and became president of its Igualada branch in 2012. She is a member of the Assemblea Nacional Catalana and La Teixidora. At the 2011 local elections Puigneró was placed 3rd on the Republican Left of Catalonia-Reagrupament-Acord Municipal electoral alliance's list of candidates in Igualada but the alliance only managed to win two seats in the municipality and as a result she was not elected.
  Vergés contested the 2012 regional election as a Republican Left of Catalonia–Catalonia Yes (ERC–CatSí) electoral alliance candidate in the Province of Barcelona and was elected to the Parliament of Catalonia. She was re-elected at the 2015 and 2017 regional elections. She was elected to the Board of the Parliament of Catalonia as Fourth Secretary on 17 January 2018.
  On 19 May 2018 newly elected President of Catalonia Quim Torra nominated a new government in which Toni Comín, who was in living in exile, was to be Minister of Health. However, the Spanish government condemned the inclusion of jailed/exiled politicians in the government as provocative and refused to approve Torra's appointments or to revoke direct rule. Faced with this opposition Torra announced a new government on 29 May 2018 without the jailed/exiled politicians. Vergés was to be Minister of Health in the new government. She was sworn in on 2 June 2018 at the Palau de la Generalitat de Catalunya. She resigned as Fourth Secretary on 4 June 2018 and as an MP on 14 June 2018.
caption: Vergés at the presentation of Junts pel Sí candidates on 28 August 2015
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