Magdalena Valerio

The Most Excellent
Magdalena Valerio
Minister of Labour, Migrations and
Social Security of Spain
Assumed office
7 June 2018
Monarch Felipe VI
Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez
Preceded by Fátima Báñez
Labour and Social Security
Member of Cortes of Castilla–La Mancha
In office
19 June 2007 – 27 May 2010
Member of the Congress of Deputies
In office
13 December 2011 – 13 January 2016
Constituency Guadalajara
City Councilor of Guadalajara
In office
11 June 2011 – 13 June 2015
In office
4 July 1999 – 21 September 2005
Personal details
Born Magdalena Valerio Cordero
(1959-09-27) September 27, 1959
Torremocha, Spain
Political party Spanish Socialist Worker's Party
Alma mater Complutense University of Madrid
Occupation Jurist and politician

Magdalena Valerio Corredero (born 27 September 1959), is a Spanish civil servant and politician, of the PSOE, that has developed great part of its political trajectory in the autonomous community of Castilla-La Mancha. She is currently Minister of Labour, Migrations and Social Security of the Government of Spain.

Biography

Origins and career

Born in Torremocha, province of Cáceres, on 27 September 1959, she studied Law at the Complutense University of Madrid,[1] graduating there in 1985. She has been a resident of Guadalajara since 1989. She has worked as an opponent's preparer and Area coordinator of Labor and Social Security in the Centro de Estudios Velázquez-ADAMS between 1986-1990. She is an officer of the Social Security Management Body and the Employment Management Scale of the INEM (National Employment Sistem). She also worked as head of the Bureau of Personnel in the Provincial Directorate of the INSERSO (Old Age Institute and Social Services) of Guadalajara between 1991-1994 and later as Deputy Director of Economic-Administrative Management and provincial secretary of the INSALUD of Guadalajara between 1994 and 1999.[2]

Political trajectory

In the 1999 municipal elections she was elected councilor in the Guadalajara City Council, a position she repeated in 2003 when she was appointed second deputy mayor and councilor for Economy, Finance, Contracting, Patrimony and Citizen Participation. In September 2005 she was appointed Minister of Labor and Employment of Castilla-La Mancha and, in 2007, Minister of Tourism and Handicrafts. In September 2008 she assumed the Ministry of Public Administration and Justice. In the autonomic elections of 2007 she was head of list of the PSOE by the circumscription of Guadalajara, obtaining bench in the Regional Cortes.[3]

In July 2008 she was elected member of the Regional Executive Committee of the PSOE of CLM and in October of the same year was elected General Secretary of the Municipal Executive Committee of Guadalajara Capital. Also, from 2000 to 2012 she was a member of the Regional Committee of the PSOE of CLM. In May 2010 she left the Government Council, being appointed delegate of the Board of Communities of Castilla-La Mancha. That same year she won the primaries to be a PSOE candidate for the Guadalajara City Council. Lost in the elections of 2011, leaded the opposition at City Hall.

Head of list of the PSOE by Guadalajara in the general elections of 2011, obtained seat of deputy in Cortes Generales.[4]

Minister of Labour, Migrations and Social Security

New Spanish Prime Minister, following the motion of censure that the PSOE presented against the previous government of Mariano Rajoy (PP) and that was approved by the Congress of Deputies on 1 June 2018, appointed her as Minister in new Spanish government.[5] Felipe VI sanctioned by royal decree of June her appointment as holder of the portfolio of Minister of Labour, Migrations and Social Security.[6] On 7 June she took office as Minister before the King at Palace of Zarzuela.[7][8]

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