Joaquim Forn

Quick Facts

Full Name	Joaquim Forn
Occupation	Politician
Date Of Birth	Apr 1, 1964(1964-04-01)
Age	60
Birthplace	Barcelona
Country	Spain
Birth City	Catalonia
Horoscope	Aries

Joaquim Forn Biography

Joaquim Forn is one of the most popular and richest Politician who was born on April 1, 1964 in Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain. Forn is born the 1st of April 1964 , in Barcelona the capital city of Catalonia located in north eastern Spain. He is the son of a Catalan and an Ecuadorian. After attending homeschool He enrolled at the Lycee Francais de Barcelone aged 13, and was able to avoid the Spanish schooling of the francoists.

After completing his university studies, Forn began working for the law firm. In 1989, he joined Accio Olimpica (Olympic Action) group which organized the Freedom for Catalonia campaign during the 1992 Olympic Games in Barcelona.

On 1 December 2017 the eight jailed ministers and two jailed independence activists – Jordi Cuixart and Jordi Sànchez i Picanyol – appeared before Supreme Court judge Pablo Llarena to request bail while they await trial. They renounced the declaration of independence, pledged support for the imposition of direct rule and agreed to work within the law. On 4 December 2017 Llarena released, after 32 days in prison, six of the ministers (Bassa, Borrás, Mundó, Romeva, Rull and Turull) on bail of €100,000 but ordered that their passports be confiscated. However, Forn and Junqueras, together with Cuixart and Sànchez, were refused bail. In denying them bail, Llarena claimed that it remained to be seen if their pledge to abide by Spanish law was “truthful and real” and that there was a risk that they would commit the same crimes if released.

On 2 November 2017 Audiencia Nacional judge Carmen Lamela remanded in custody Forn and seven other Catalan ministers (Bassa, Borrás, Oriol Junqueras, Carles Mundó, Raül Romeva, Josep Rull and Jordi Turull) as she considered them a flight risk. The jailed ministers were separated and sent to five different prisons: Bassa and Borrás to Alcalá, Junqueras and Forn to Estremera, Mundó to Aranjuez prison, Romeva and Turull to Valdemoro and Rull to Navalcarnero. A ninth minister, Santi Vila, was freed on bail as he had resigned from the government the day before the declaration of independence, but had to spend a night in Estremera prison whilst his lawyers secured his €50,000 bail. According to their lawyer Jaume Alonso-Cuevillas, the ministers were mistreated whilst being transported to prison. They were allegedly handcuffed behind their backs without seat belts in a van going very fast, forced to listen to the Spanish national anthem on a loop and threatened by their guards. Mundo allegedly suffered injuries due to the handcuffs and two ministers were allegedly forced to strip to prevent them carrying anything into prison. Earlier, as the ministers arrived at the Audiencia Nacional, Spanish police officers were shown, in video obtained Reuters and published by the La Vanguardia, making sneering, homophobic comments about the ministers, with one officer saying “Wait till you see what they do to the little teddy bear”, referring to Junqueras, “When they get him on all fours, they’ll fix his eye”.

After graduation, Forn began his studies at his first university, the University of Barcelona, graduating with the Bachelor of Laws degree. As a student, he was a member of the Democratic Convergence of Catalonia (CDC) an ultra-conservative Catalan nationalist political group, today referred to by its acronym, the Catalan European Democratic Party (PDeCAT) and was instrumental in reestablishing the National Student Federation of Catalonia (Federacio Nacional d’Estudiants of Catalunya FNEC) (FNEC), a Catalan nationalist student group and served as its president from 1986 until 1988.

Joaquim Forn Net Worth

Joaquim Forn is one of the richest Politician from Spain. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Joaquim Forn 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Born around 1964 and raised in Barcelona, Forn graduated from the University of Barcelona before joining the legal profession. An advocate for Catalan autonomy, Forn joined the nationalist Democratic Convergence of Catalonia (CDC) while studying at the time. Forn was elected as a member of the Municipality Council of Barcelona in 1999, and in the year 2011 was elected the city’s first deputy mayor. He served until the year 2015. He was named Secretary of the Interior for Catalonia in July of 2017.

Joaquim Forn I Chiariello (born January 1, 1964) is a Spanish politician and lawyer from Catalonia. Formerly, he was the vice Mayor of the City of Barcelona in northern Spain, Forn served as Minister of the Interior between July 2017 and October 2017, when his resignation was announced after the Catalan declaration of independence.

Forn contested the 1999 local elections as a Convergence and Union (CiU) electoral alliance candidate in Barcelona and was elected. In May 2000 he was beaten and his arm broken by the National Police Corps (Policía Nacional) as he took part in a demonstration against a Spanish Army parade on Montjuïc, in the Sants district of Barcelona, celebrating Armed Forces Day (Día de las Fuerzas Armadas). He was re-elected at the 2003 and 2007 local elections. He was CiU group spokesman on the city council from 2007 to 2011. At the 2011 local elections, in which Forn we re-elected, the CiU ended the Socialists’s 32-year rule in Barcelona and Forn became first deputy mayor. He was spokesman of the city government, president of Transports Metropolitans de Barcelona, vice-president of the Autoritat del Transport Metropolità’s board of directors, and an advisor and member of the Àrea Metropolitana de Barcelona’s board of governors.

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On 1 October 2017 an independence referendum was held in Catalonia despite the Constitutional Court ruling that it breached the Spanish constitution. 92% supported independence though turnout was only 43% due to a boycott by unionists. The Catalan Parliament declared independence on 27 October 2017 which resulted in the Spanish government imposing direct rule on Catalonia, dismissing the Catalan government, including Forn. The Catalan Parliament was dissolved and fresh elections imposed by central government. On 30 October 2017 charges of rebellion, sedition and misuse of public funds were brought against Forn and other members of the Catalan government. Forn and Puigdemont, along with others, fled to Belgium, but on 31 October 2017 Forn returned to Spain. On 2 November 2017 Forn and seven other Catalan ministers were remanded in custody by the Audiencia Nacional. Six of the ministers were released on bail on 4 December 2017 but Forn and Vice President Oriol Junqueras were kept in custody. At the regional elections held on 21 December 2017 Forn was elected to Parliament and Catalan secessionists retained a slim majority in the Catalan Parliament. Forn resigned from Parliament in January 2018 but remains in prison. During December 2018 he did a hunger strike. On Feb 1, 2019 he was transferred to a prison in Madrid, waiting for the trial that started in February 12.

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Whilst remaining in prison, Forn contested the 2017 regional election as a Junts per Catalunya (JuntsxCat) electoral alliance candidate in the Province of Barcelona and was elected to the Parliament of Catalonia. A Christmas crib sent to Forn and Junqueras in prison was returned to its sender Antoni Bargalló smashed and with Viva España scrawled on the box. Cuixart, Forn and Sànchez appeared before Supreme Court judge Pablo Llarena on 11 January 2018 to secure release from prison. At the hearing Forn testified that, although he did not renounce Catalan independence, he would only seek to achieve this by reforming the Spanish constitution and if the Catalan government sought to achieve independence unilaterally he would resign from Parliament. On 12 January 2018, at a separate hearing for Junqueras, Llarena opened the way for the three jailed MPs – Forn, Junqueras and Sànchez – to vote by proxy in the Catalan Parliament. When the Catalan Parliament met on 17 January 2018 it allowed the three jailed MPs to vote by proxy, with Turull voting for Forn and Sànchez. Forn resigned from Parliament with effect from 24 January 2018 in order to secure his freedom. Despite this, on 2 February 2018, Llarena refused Forn’s application for release on bail, saying that Forn’s refusal to give up support for independence meant that there was a risk that he would re-offend. The testimony by Spanish army colonel Diego Pérez de los Cobos, who was in charge of Spanish security forces during the crackdown against the independence referendum, was seen as key to keeping Forn in prison.