Alba Vergés

Alba Vergés i Bosch (born 3 September 1978) is a Catalan economist and politician who is current serving as the First Vice President of the Parliament of Catalonia since 2021 and as Acting President of the Parliament of Catalonia from July 2022 until June 2023, when she was succeeded by Anna Erra.

[1][2] Vergés worked as an economist in the elderly care and as a junior programmer in information and communications technology, developing clothing store management software.

[2][3] 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.

[2][3] Vergés joined the Republican Left of Catalonia (ERC) in 2011 and became president of its Igualada branch in 2012.

[15][16] 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.

Vergés at the presentation of Junts pel Sí candidates on 28 August 2015
Vergés in a COVID-19 press conference on 16 March 2020