Former PP MP Esperanza García dies at the age of 50.

Esperanza García, the delegate of the Andalusian Regional Government in Catalonia and former member of the Catalan Parliament for the People's Party (PP), died early this morning at the age of 50 from cancer.

The president of the PPC, Alejandro Fernández, has expressed his condolences to her family through a message on the social network X, in which he described Esperanza García as an “intelligent, elegant, brilliant woman who left us too soon.”

Esperanza García (Barcelona, ​​1975), a lawyer and contributor to various media outlets, was elected as a PP deputy in Catalonia in the September 2015 elections and, after the December 2017 elections, returned to Parliament in 2018 following the departures of Xavier García Albiol and Andrea Levy.

She left the Catalan chamber in October 2020 to join Badalona City Council as coordinator of the Government area, whose mayor was precisely García Albiol, who also lamented the death of Esperanza García in X. "She just left us very young," she indicated.

In March 2023, the president of the Andalusian Regional Government, Juanma Moreno, appointed her as the regional government's delegate in Catalonia, a position she held until her death. Moreno then linked Esperanza García's appointment to his administration's intention to strengthen ties with the Andalusian community in Catalonia and to "intensify commercial and economic relations" between the two communities.

Prior to 2010, the year she began her membership in the PPC, Esperanza García had been involved with Ciudadanos. In the 2006 Parliamentary elections, she already collaborated on the Ciudadanos campaign due to her sympathies with the party's founders, Albert Boadella, Arcadi Espada, and Francisco de Carreras. With this party, she ran for mayor of Barcelona in the 2007 municipal elections. She left the PPC in 2010.

A graduate in Law from the University of Barcelona, ​​Esperanza García practiced law between 2000 and 2015 and regularly collaborated as an opinion writer and commentator for El Periódico de Cataluña , Radio Nacional de España, Televisión Española, TV3, SER and RAC1. She was a member of Sociedad Civil Catalana, whose board of directors she joined in 2019 under the presidency of Josep Ramon Bosch.

The president of the Generalitat, Salvador Illa, also declared himself "shaken" by the death of Esperanza García and expressed his condolences to her family and colleagues.