Antoni Marti

Antoni Marti Petit, an Important Historical Figure, is an Andorranian architect and politician. He held the position from May 2011 to May 16, 2019, when he was chosen by Democratic Party voters in Andorra. Then, in the 2015 legislative elections, he was returned to office.

Marti was raised in Escaldes-Engordany and attended the Toulouse École Nationale Supérieure d'Architecture, a division of the Toulouse Federal University of the Midi-Pyrénées. He works as an architect full-time.

In 1993, when political parties were allowed to participate in legislative elections, Marti was first elected to the General Assembly as a member of the Liberal Alliance. The Liberal Alliance came in second place in the vote. After losing a vote of no confidence in 1994, Marc Forné Molné, the head of the Liberal Alliance, took over as prime minister. Oscar Ribas Reig had been selected as the previous leader. When the Liberal Alliance won the 1997 elections and Molné stayed in that position as prime minister, Marti was re-elected. The Liberal Alliance changed its name to the Andorra Liberal Party shortly before the 2001 election, which it won. Molné kept her position as prime minister.

Marti was elected mayor of Escaldes-Engordany, Andorra's second-largest town, in 2004 after Marti resigned from the General Assembly. He held the position of mayor from 2004 to 2007 and again from 2008 to 2011. As a candidate in the Reform Coalition, the Liberal Party fell short in the 2009 election to Jaume Bartumeu's Social Democratic Party. After losing a vote on a two-year budget during the campaign to opposition parties, Bartumeu decided to seek an early election in 2011. As the Reform Alliance's immediate successor, the Democratic Party for Andorra was established in February 2011. Marti was the party's nominee for prime minister. He ran an oppositional campaign to Bartumeu's idea to enact an income tax. The pro-Andorra Democratic Party received 55.5% of the vote. Bartumeu resigned as prime minister on April 28, 2011, and Pere López Agràs took over until May 12, 2011, when Marti was appointed.

Marti began discussions with the European Union in 2011 on different forms of cooperation. Andorra altered its regulations regarding international investment, welcomed foreign companies, and agreed to forgo double taxation with France and Spain during the discussions. Additionally, Marti handled the adoption of the euro as Andorra's official currency after a June 2011 deal.