Carola Miró
Catalan teacher (1965–2024)
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Carola Miró i Bedós (1965 – 4 May 2024) was a Spanish Catalan teacher. She was the wife of Quim Torra, who was the 131st President of the Government of Catalonia from 2018 to 2020.[1][2]
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Carola Miró i Bedós | |
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| First Lady of the Government of Catalonia | |
| In office 17 May 2018 – 29 September 2020 | |
| Monarch | Felipe VI |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 1965 |
| Died | 4 May 2024 (aged 58) Salt, Spain |
| Spouse | Quim Torra |
| Children | 3 |
| Occupation | Teacher |
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]