Joan Josep Nuet

Joan Josep Nuet MP
Nuet in May 2018
Member of the Congress of Deputies
In office 16 May 2019 – 4 May 2021
Constituency	Barcelona
In office 2 December 2011 – 25 October 2015
Member of the Senate of Spain
In office 21 December 2006 – 8 February 2011
Preceded by	Jaume Bosch
Succeeded by	Joan Saura
Constituency	Catalonia
Third Secretary of the Parliament of Catalonia
In office 26 October 2015 – 28 October 2017
Preceded by	Josep Rull
Succeeded by	Joan García González
Member of the Parliament of Catalonia
In office 26 October 2015 – 20 March 2019
Succeeded by	Marc Parés Franzi
Constituency	Barcelona
Member of Montcada i Reixac Municipal Council
In office 1991–2003
Personal details
Born	Joan Josep Nuet i Pujals (1964-08-06) 6 August 1964 (age 59) Reus, Catalonia, Spain
Political party	Communists of Catalonia (since 2014) Sobiranistes (since 2019)
Alma mater	University of Barcelona
Website	nuet.cat

Joan Josep Nuet i Pujals (born 6 August 1964) is a Spanish politician from Catalonia who previously served as Member of the Congress of Deputies of Spain. He was previously a member of the Senate of Spain and the Parliament of Catalonia.

A member of the Party of the Communists of Catalonia since 1986, Nuet became its secretary-general in January 2010. He has been secretary-general of the Communists of Catalonia since its formation in November 2014. He was co-ordinator general of the United and Alternative Left from June 2012 to June 2019.

Nuet was a member of Montcada i Reixac Municipal Council from 1991 to 2003 and served two terms as a deputy mayor. He was an appointed member of the Senate of Spain from December 2006 to February 2011. He was a member of the Congress of Deputies from December 2011 to October 2015 and a member of the Parliament of Catalonia from October 2015 till his resignation in March 2019. He was Third Secretary of the Parliament of Catalonia from October 2015 to October 2017. He was elected to the Congress of Deputies at the April and November 2019 Spanish general election. After a trial on charges of disobedience for his role in the Catalan declaration of independence, he was handed down an eight-month ban from public office and expelled from Congress on 4 May 2021.^[1]