Anna Erra i Solà

Anna Erra i Solà is a Catalan politician from Junts per Catalunya and a member of the Parliament of Catalonia. She is best known for serving as President of the Parliament of Catalonia from 2024 to 2025, following a long local political career as mayor of Vic.

Political career

Anna Erra i Solà was born in 1965 and built her political profile in municipal politics before moving to the Catalan Parliament. Her public career is closely linked to Vic, the capital of the comarca of Osona, where she developed her base as a local elected official and became one of the best-known figures in the city’s political life.

Before entering the Catalan parliament’s highest institutional office, Erra served as Mayor of Vic from 2015 to 2023. Her eight years in office made her one of the most durable local leaders in the area. As mayor, she was associated with the management of a medium-sized Catalan city with a strong civic identity and a politically active middle class, where local governance often intersects with broader debates on Catalan identity, language and public services.

Alongside her local role, Erra became a Member of the Parliament of Catalonia for Junts. Her parliamentary career gave her a regional platform within a party that emerged from the evolution of the Catalan independence movement and the post-Convergència political space. In that context, she rose to one of the most symbolic positions in Catalan politics when she became President of the Parliament of Catalonia (2024–2025). The post is institutionally important because the president chairs plenary sessions, represents the chamber and plays a key role in the functioning and dignity of the parliament.

Her trajectory therefore moved from municipal executive responsibility to regional parliamentary leadership, reflecting a pattern common in Catalan politics where local government experience is often a stepping stone to higher institutional roles.

Relationship with the public

Erra’s public image has been shaped above all by her years as mayor of Vic. Local office tends to bring a more direct relationship with voters than regional politics, and her profile was built through day-to-day municipal governance rather than through high-profile national media appearances. That has generally positioned her as a pragmatic institutional politician, rooted in local concerns and public administration.

Her connection with civil society has also been influenced by Vic’s strong network of cultural, educational and associational activity. In Catalonia, mayors often act as visible intermediaries between municipal life and broader civic debates, and Erra’s prominence in Vic placed her in a role where she had to engage with neighbourhood organisations, business actors and community groups.

In the media, she has tended to appear more as a local and parliamentary institutional figure than as a combative public performer. Compared with more polarising Catalan leaders, her media profile has generally been tied to office-holding and institutional management rather than to confrontational rhetoric. Her prominence increased significantly during her term as president of the parliament, when procedural and symbolic questions surrounding the chamber drew more attention than individual political branding.

Positions and political profile

Erra is identified with Junts, a party that combines pro-independence positions with a strong emphasis on institutional legitimacy, Catalan self-government and defence of Catalonia’s national identity. Her political profile sits within that broad current, and she is perceived as part of the moderate institutional wing of Catalan nationalism rather than a more overtly ideological or activist style.

A key part of her profile is her association with public institutions: city hall in Vic, the Catalan parliament and the ceremonial-political responsibilities attached to those posts. That gives her an image of a politician focused on governance, protocol and territorial representation. As president of the parliament, her role was not to set policy directly but to manage the chamber’s functioning, which usually demands procedural discipline and an ability to balance competing political blocs.

Her most defining political experience is arguably her mayoralty in Vic, because it anchored her reputation in concrete administrative responsibility. Municipal leaders in Catalonia are often judged on public services, town planning, cultural policy and the handling of identity-sensitive local issues. In that setting, Erra became a recognisable figure in a city with a politically engaged electorate.

Inside Junts, she has been seen as an institutionally reliable profile, someone able to occupy top offices and project stability. Outside the party, she is likely to be viewed through the broader lens of Junts itself: for supporters, part of the leadership that defends Catalan institutions; for critics, associated with a party whose politics are closely tied to the independence question. Her record is therefore read less as that of a policy specialist in a single domain and more as that of a parliamentary and municipal operator.

No final court convictions for offences connected to public office are known from the information provided.

Frequently asked questions

Who is Anna Erra i Solà? She is a Catalan politician born in 1965, affiliated with Junts per Catalunya, and a current Member of the Parliament of Catalonia.

What was Anna Erra’s most important office? Her most prominent office was President of the Parliament of Catalonia, which she held from 2024 to 2025.

What did Anna Erra do before becoming a regional parliamentarian? She served as Mayor of Vic from 2015 to 2023, giving her a long background in municipal government.

Which party does Anna Erra belong to? She is a member of Junts per Catalunya (Junts), a pro-independence Catalan party.

What is Anna Erra’s political reputation? She is generally seen as an institutional and municipal politician, with a profile shaped by local executive experience and parliamentary leadership.

Where is Anna Erra mainly associated politically? She is most closely associated with Vic and the wider political and institutional life of Catalonia.