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Inés Sabanés
Inés Sabanés Nadal (born 1953) is a Spanish eco-socialist politician. She served as Madrid's Councillor for the Environment and Mobility from 2015 to 2019. Biography Born on 24 June 1953 in Cubells, province of Lleida. She moved to Madrid to study at the National Institute for Physical Education (now part of the Technical University of Madrid). She played for the Women's Handball section of Atlético Madrid, as well as for the handball national team. Sabanés, who had become a member of the Unión General de Trabajadores (UGT) and the Socialist Action Party (PASOC) in 1982, was a founding member of the United Left in 1986. A resident in Vallecas, she became a civil servant of the Madrid City Council in 1986, and she worked in the Municipal Sports Institute until 1996. She ran sixth in the IU list in Madrid for the 1996 general election and became a member of the Spanish lower house, in what it was her first elected office. She left her seat in September 1999, as she had ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Congress Of Deputies
The Congress of Deputies () is the lower house of the , Spain's legislative branch, the upper house being the Senate of Spain, Senate. The Congress meets in the Palacio de las Cortes, Madrid, Palace of the Parliament () in Madrid. Congress has 350 members elected from fifty-two Constituency, constituencies (the fifty Provinces of Spain, provinces and two Autonomous cities of Spain, autonomous cities) using closed list D'Hondt method, D'Hondt proportional representation. Deputies serve four-year terms. The presiding officer and speaker is the President of the Congress of Deputies, who is elected by the members at the first sitting of Congress after an election. The two principal bodies in Congress are Parliamentary group (Spain), parliamentary groups and committee, parliamentary committees (). All MPs are required to be members of a parliamentary group, the institutionalised form of political parties. Groups act with one voice represented by their spokesperson. In other words, th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Unión General De Trabajadores
The Unión General de Trabajadores (UGT, General Union of Workers) is a major Spanish trade union, historically affiliated with the Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE). History The UGT was founded 12 August 1888 by Pablo Iglesias Posse in Mataró (Barcelona), with Marxism, Marxist socialism as its ideological basis, despite its statutory apolitical status. Until its nineteenth Congress in 1920, it did not consider class struggle as a basic principle of trade union action. The UGT was closely associated with the PSOE. During the World War I era, the UGT followed a tactical line of close relationships and unity of action with the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo (CNT, National Labour Confederation). The UGT grew rapidly after 1917, and by 1920 had 200,000 members. This era came to a sudden end with the advent of the dictatorship of Miguel Primo de Rivera, who gave a legal monopoly on labor organizing to his own government-sponsored union, the Patriotic Union (Spain), Pat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Madrid Central
Madrid Central is a low-emission zone located in the center of Madrid. It was inaugurated on November 30, 2018. The project has been something of a political football and as at 2024 has been severely curtained by a court ruling. It is aimed at reducing pollution from traffic. There is little industry in the center of the city, and vehicular traffic has been responsible for a significant proportion of emissions there. Madrid Central was not Spain's first low-emission zone, because Pontevedra had effectively created such a zone by pedestrianising much of its city center. Barcelona announced the implementation of a low emission zone from the beginning of 2020. History Prior to the introduction of the Madrid Central scheme, traffic had already been restricted in the city and residents' cars had been given priority for parking in Residential Priority Areas. (Spanish: ''Área de Prioridad Residencial'' or ''APR''). Madrid Central was approved by the Governing Board of the City ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Manuela Carmena
Manuela Carmena Castrillo (; born 9 February 1944) is a retired Spanish lawyer and judge who served as Mayor of Madrid from June 2015 to June 2019. She was a member of the General Council of the Judiciary. Biography Early life She was born on 9 February 1944 in Madrid, in the area near the Dehesa de la Villa. Both sides of her family had a background in small business: her father Carmelo (a native of Toledo) ran a shirt shop at the corner of Gran Vía and Chinchilla Street in central Madrid. Her mother, meanwhile, worked as a cashier. She attended the French School of the Black Ladies. During her time as a student, Carmena served as voluntary worker in a preserves factory run by the Servicio Universitario del Trabajo. After graduating in law in 1965 from the University of Valencia, she became a legal representative of workers and detainees during the Francoist State and was co-founder of the labour law office where the 1977 Atocha massacre took place. Carmena, who join ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2015 Madrid City Council Election
The 2015 Madrid City Council election, also the 2015 Madrid municipal election, was held on Sunday, 24 May 2015, to elect the 10th City Council of Madrid, City Council of the Municipalities of Spain, municipality of Madrid. All 57 seats in the City Council were up for election. The election was held simultaneously with 2015 Spanish regional elections, regional elections in thirteen Autonomous communities of Spain, autonomous communities and 2015 Spanish local elections, local elections all throughout Spain. Leading the People's Party (Spain), People's Party (PP) local list was Esperanza Aguirre, former president of the Community of Madrid (2003–2012), president of the Senate of Spain (1999–2002) and Ministry of Education (Spain), minister of Education and Culture (1996–1999), as well as the leader of the People's Party of the Community of Madrid, regional PP branch since 2004. Mayor Ana Botella, who succeeded Alberto Ruiz-Gallardón early into his term in December 2011, had de ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ahora Madrid
Ahora Madrid () was a citizen platform of popular unity, formed as an ''instrumental party without organic internal life'', in order to stand for the municipal elections of 2015 in the city of Madrid. For this project, '' Ganemos Madrid'', a citizen platform inspired by ''Guanyem Barcelona'' (now called Barcelona en Comú) and the parties Equo, Podemos and PUM+J joined forces. History On 28 June 2014 "Municipalia", later renamed Ganemos Madrid, appeared. The goal of this platform was to ''gain Madrid as a citizens' horizontal initiative formed by a confluence of people, groups, parties and social movements''. On 29 January 2014, Ganemos Madrid confirmed that their goal was the confluence of different left-wing Left-wing politics describes the range of Ideology#Political ideologies, political ideologies that support and seek to achieve social equality and egalitarianism, often in opposition to social hierarchy either as a whole or of certain social ... forces to st ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gregorio Gordo
Gregorio "Goyo" Gordo Pradel (19 August 1958 – 20 May 2021) was a Spanish politician and trade unionist. A member of the Assembly of Madrid from 2007 to 2015, he led the United Left of the Community of Madrid from 2009 to 2012. Biography Born on 19 August 1958 in Madrid, he joined the Comisiones Obreras (CC.OO.) in 1976. Gordo, who dropped out from his university studies in Law, worked in a goldsmith workshop from 1976 to 1983. He later became a public officer of the Spanish Tax Agency. He became a member of the Communist Party of Spain in 1983 and also was a founding member of United Left (Spain), United Left. He was elected in the 1991 Spanish local elections, 1991 municipal election in Getafe and became a city councillor, serving as such until 2003. He ran second on the United Left list for the 2007 Madrilenian regional election led by Inés Sabanés, becoming member of the 8th Assembly of Madrid. He became the new coordinator-general of United Left in March 2015, afte ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
