María Izquierdo Rojo

Izquierdo in 2006 at a reunion of members of the Constituent Congress 1977–79

María Izquierdo Rojo (born 13 September 1946 in Oviedo)[1] is a Spanish politician of the Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (Partido Socialista Obrero Español (PSOE)). She was a member of the Spanish Congress of Deputies in 1977–1979 (the Constituent Congress),[2] 1979–1982 (the 1st Congress)[3] and 1986–1989 (the 3rd Congress),[4] representing Granada. She was a member of the European Parliament from 1989 to 2004.[1]

In 2018 she was one of a group of eleven women honoured by the city of Granada for having enabled the peaceful transition to democracy in the city forty years earlier. A conference was held entitled "Granadinas por la libertad: once figuras femeninas para la democracia española".[5][6]

Speaking on television in 2018 she said "Me he pasado los cincuenta años primeros años de mi vida discriminada por ser mujer, y los siguientes haGranadinas por la libertad: once figuras femeninas para la democracia española"sta hoy discriminada por ser mayor" ("I have spent the first fifty years of my life discriminated against because I am a woman, and the following until today discriminated against because I am older").[7]

References

  1. ^ a b "María Izquierdo Rojo". European Parliament. Archived from the original on 25 December 2015. Retrieved 1 May 2020.
  2. ^ "Izquierdo Rojo, María". Legislatura Constituyente ( 1977–1979 ). Congreso de Diputados. Retrieved 1 May 2020.
  3. ^ "Izquierdo Rojo, María". I Legislatura ( 1979–1982 ). Congreso de Diputados. Retrieved 1 May 2020.
  4. ^ "Izquierdo Rojo, María". III Legislatura ( 1986–1989 ). Congreso de los Diputados. Retrieved 1 May 2020.
  5. ^ "Granada reivindica el papel de once mujeres que construyeron la democracia". El Independiente de Granada. 26 November 2018. Retrieved 1 May 2020.
  6. ^ "Emotiva reivindicación de las mujeres de la Transición". Ideal (in Spanish). 27 November 2018. Retrieved 1 May 2020.
  7. ^ "Una Mujer Excepcional: Maria Izquierda Rojo". Mirador de Atarfe. 13 April 2018. Retrieved 1 May 2020.


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