Josep Antoni Duran i Lleida (born 27 March 1952 in Alcampell, Spain) is a Spanish politician.
Duran i Lleida has also been the president of Democratic Union of Catalonia (UDC), a political party which is part of CiU, since 1987 and also from 1982 to 1984.
In November 2003 Duran i Lleida advocated calling gay marriage (which is legal in Spain) by a different name.
[3] In January 2007 Josep Antoni adopted the Gibraltar nationality as a stand against the Spanish government policies.
Years after, in March 2012 during a fierce debate with Spanish prime minister Mariano Rajoy, Duran i Lleida asked for the immediate recognition of Kosovo by Spain, and stated that the reasons for non-recognition "are not international but internal".