Salvador Illa Roca (Catalan pronunciation: [səlβəˈðo ˈiʎə ˈrɔkə]; born 5 May 1966) is a Spanish politician serving as the President of the Government of Catalonia since 2024.

[1] Illa attended Escola Pía School in Granollers[1] and he studied in the University of Barcelona, where he received his Philosophy degree.

[5] He completed compulsory military service, graduating as Alférez in a company of the Spanish Army Headquarters of Bruc, Barcelona.

[6][7] During his first term, La Roca Village was built, a shopping center that attracts nearly 4 million visitors each year.

[1] He was ousted as Mayor after a successful vote of no confidence in early 1999, but he soon made a comeback as his party commanded a qualified majority at the June 1999 local elections.

Let's recover common sense) anti-independence demonstration in Barcelona on 8 October 2017 organized by Societat Civil Catalana.

[11] He was part, along with Adriana Lastra and José Luis Ábalos, of the negotiating team of the PSOE that reached an agreement with ERC for their abstention in the investiture of Pedro Sánchez in January 2020.

On 3 March 2020, the health authorities announced that a post-mortem test proved that the first coronavirus death in Spain occurred on 13 February 2020.

Among them were halting flights to Italy and banning large scale gatherings in Madrid, Basque Country, and La Rioja (regions with high risk of contagious).

[31] In this sense, at the same time he announced that his department was going to develop a law to create a National Agency for Public Health.

[36] The first doses arrived in Spain and the rest of the member states of the European Union on 26 December[37] and mass vaccination began a day later.