Dolors Bassa

Dolors Bassa i Coll is an educator, psychopedagogist and Catalan politician who held the position of Minister of Labour, Social Affairs and Families in the Generalitat de Catalunya until Spain sacked the whole Catalan government on 27 October 2017. She is known for her syndicalist career in the major Spanish trade union, Unión General de Trabajadores. Since March 2018 she was remanded in custody, without bail, by order of the Supreme Court of Spain, accused of sedition and rebellion. She was sentenced on October 14, 2019 to 12 years in gaol for sedition, as being responsible for devoting several thousand public schools to the 1 October 2017 referendum, as polling stations. The Supreme Court turned down her plea for this mistake to be amended so that her sentence - greater than nearly all the other convicted ministers - might be reduced.