Pilar Llop

María Pilar Llop Cuenca (born 1973) is a Spanish judge and politician who currently serves as President of the Senate of Spain. She is Spanish Senate designated by the Assembly of Madrid, an assembly of which she has been part since June 2019. Previously, she was member of the Assembly of Madrid from 2015 to 2018 and Government Delegate for Gender Violence of the Government of Spain from 2018 to 2019.

This article uses Spanish naming customs: the first or paternal family name is Llop and the second or maternal family name is Cuenca.
The Most Excellent

Pilar Llop

MS
President of the Senate of Spain
Assumed office
3 December 2019
MonarchFelipe VI
Preceded byManuel Cruz Rodríguez
Member of the Senate
Assumed office
11 July 2019
ConstituencyAssembly of Madrid
Government Delegate for Gender Violence
In office
24 July 2018 – 13 April 2019
Preceded byMaría José Ordóñez
Succeeded byRebeca Palomo
Member of the Assembly of Madrid
Assumed office
11 June 2019
In office
9 June 2015 – 13 July 2018
Personal details
Born3 August 1973
Madrid, Spanish State
CitizenshipSpanish
OccupationJudge, politician, consultant

Biography

Born on 3 August 1973 in Madrid to a humble family; her father was taxi-driver and her mother hairdresser,[1][2] she graduated in law at the Complutense University of Madrid.[3] She also mastered judicial translation in the University of Alicante.[1]

She entered the judicial career in 1999 and became a magistrate in 2004.[4] She ran in the Spanish Socialist Worker's Party (PSOE) list for the 2015 Madrilenian regional election led by Ángel Gabilondo and became a member of the 10th term of the regional legislature. She formalised the renouncement to her seat in the Assembly of Madrid on 13 July 2018,[5] as she had been appointed by the Council of Ministers presided by Pedro Sánchez as the new Government Delegate for Gender Violence. She was sworn into office on 24 July 2018.[6]

References
  1. Álvarez, Pilar (27 December 2018). "En una sociedad democrática no cabe la prostitución". El País.
  2. "Pilar Llop: "Estoy en política para que la igualdad entre hombres y mujeres sea una realidad"". Confilegal. 6 July 2015.
  3. Álvarez, Pilar (13 July 2018). "Pilar Llop, nueva delegada del Gobierno para la Violencia de Género". El País.
  4. "La delegada del Gobierno en violencia machista explicará en el Congreso cómo identificar las conductas de acoso". Europa Press. 12 November 2018.
  5. "Altas y bajas de diputados en la X legislatura" (PDF). Assembly of Madrid. Archived from the original (PDF) on 4 February 2019. Retrieved 4 February 2019.
  6. "Martes, 24 de julio de 2018 (7.00 GMT)". El Confidencial. 24 July 2018.
This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.