Jordi Ballart

Jordi Ballart i Pastor (born 8 February 1980) is a Spanish politician who has been a city councillor (2005–2017; 2019–) and the mayor (2012–2017; 2019–) of Terrassa in Catalonia.

He resigned from office and from membership of the Socialists' Party of Catalonia (PSC) in 2017 due to disagreements with their stance on the 2017 Catalan independence referendum.

He founded his own party Tot per Terrassa (TxT) in 2018 and returned to the mayoralty in 2019, ending 40 years of PSC control in the city.

[1] After Navarro's resignation, Ballart was invested as mayor on 10 December 2012, Terrassa's third since the Spanish transition to democracy.

[2] After the 2015 elections, his party won a plurality with nine seats, though Xavier Mantilla of Terrassa en Comú was the most voted for mayoral candidate; the abstention of the mayoral vote by the four city councillors from Convergence and Union meant that no candidate had a majority and the mayoralty went to Ballart as leader of the largest party.