The former head of Government of Andorra Toni Martí died on Monday afternoon at the age of 60 in the Andorran Nostra Senyora hospital in Meritxell due to cardiorespiratory arrest. The Government has reported in a statement that the emergency service medical team certified his death at 6:11 p.m.
Martí governed two terms, from 2011 to 2019, when he was in charge of initiating negotiations for an association agreement with the EU, and had recently joined as an observer in the negotiations alongside former Head of Government Jaume Bartumeu.
In the next few hours, the Government is expected to decree two days of national mourning, during which the exterior flags of official buildings will remain at half-mast, while the interior flags will carry a black crepe, and no other public ceremonies will be able to be held. be the funeral homes.
The death of Antoni Martí Petit, born in Escaldes-Engordany on July 30, 1963, has generated commotion in the Principality and there have been numerous publications of condolences made on social networks by members of other political parties and institutions in the country.
Toni Martí began his political career in 1994 and was one of the founders of the Partit Liberal d'Andorra (PLA). He was general councilor (parliamentary) from 1994 to 1997 and also from 1997 to 2001, the year in which he was again elected general councilor, but in 2003 he left the position to run for the communal (local) elections of Escaldes-Engordany, and was elected consul. (mayor).
In 2007 he was re-elected consul but, shortly before the end of his term, he decided to run as a candidate for head of Government, leading the political project of the newly created Democratic Party for Andorra. Martí governed with an absolute majority during the first term (2011-15) and was elected again in 2015, culminating his time in government in 2019.
The executive statement highlights that it was during his time at the head of the government that he "completed the process" of economic opening and international homologation and transparency of the country.
