Overview
- News agencies EFE and Europa Press reported her death on October 24, prompting swift public tributes from national and Catalan leaders.
- She served in Spain’s Congress for the PSC from 1979 to 2000 across six legislatures, emerging as a prominent feminist voice.
- During the 1981 coup attempt, she was allowed to exit the chamber because she was pregnant, and she later recounted speaking with King Juan Carlos during the crisis.
- Balletbò was president of the International Olof Palme Foundation and taught at the Autonomous University of Barcelona’s information sciences faculty.
- Her institutional roles included seats on the boards of RTVE and the Catalan public broadcaster CCMA, and she received Sweden’s Order of the Polar Star and Catalonia’s Creu de Sant Jordi.