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Diego Valderas
Diego Valderas Sosa (born 25 January 1953) is a Spanish politician of the United Left (IU). He was the first democratically elected mayor of his hometown of Bollullos Par del Condado in the Province of Huelva (1979–1994) and a member of the Parliament of Andalusia (1986–2000; 2008–2015). He was the general coordinator of the United Left/The Greens–Assembly for Andalusia (IULV–CA) from 2000 to 2013, the President of the Parliament of Andalusia (1994–1996) and the Vice President of the Regional Government of Andalusia (2012–2015). Biography Born in Bollullos Par del Condado, Province of Huelva Valderas worked as a butane deliveryman in his hometown. He was the town's first democratically elected mayor in the 1979 local elections; representing the Communist Party of Spain (PCE), he served three terms with absolute majorities until 1994. He was also the party spokesman in the provincial deputation and was first elected to the Parliament of Andalusia in 1986. From ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Diego Valderas 2014 (cropped)
Diego is a Spanish masculine given name. The Portuguese equivalent is Diogo. The name also has several patronymic derivations, listed below. The etymology of Diego is disputed, with two major origin hypotheses: ''Tiago'' and ''Didacus''. Etymology ''Tiago'' hypothesis Diego has long been interpreted as variant of ''Tiago'' ( Brazilian Portuguese: '' Thiago''), an abbreviation of ''Santiago'', from the older ''Sant Yago'' "Saint Jacob", in English known as Saint James or as ''San-Tiago''. This has been the standard interpretation of the name since at least the 19th century, as it was reported by Robert Southey in 1808 and by Apolinar Rato y Hevia (1891). The suggestion that this identification may be a folk etymology, i.e. that ''Diego'' (and ''Didacus''; see below) may be of another origin and only later identified with ''Jacobo'', is made by Buchholtz (1894), though this possibility is judged as improbable by the author himself. ''Didacus'' hypothesis In the later ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Spanish Socialist Workers' Party
The Spanish Socialist Workers' Party ( es, Partido Socialista Obrero Español ; PSOE ) is a social-democraticThe PSOE is described as a social-democratic party by numerous sources: * * * * political party in Spain. The PSOE has been in government longer than any other political party in modern democratic Spain, namely from 1982 to 1996 under Felipe González; from 2004 to 2011 under José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero; and currently since 2018 under Pedro Sánchez. The PSOE was founded in 1879, making it the oldest party currently active in Spain. The PSOE played a key role during the Second Spanish Republic, being part of coalition government from 1931 to 1933 and from 1936 to 1939, when the Republic was defeated by Francisco Franco in the Spanish Civil War. The party was then banned under Franco's dictatorship and its members and leaders were persecuted or exiled. The PSOE was only legalised again in 1977. Historically a Marxist party, it abandoned Marxism in 1979. Just like ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Antonio Maíllo
Antonio Maíllo Cañadas (born 2 November 1966) is a Spanish former politician of the Communist Party of Spain (PCE). From 2013 to 2019 he was the general coordinator of United Left/The Greens–Assembly for Andalusia (IULV–CA) and he was a deputy in the Parliament of Andalusia from 2015 to 2019, serving as spokesman of the IULV–CA and Adelante Andalucía (2018), Adelante Andalucía groups. Biography Maíllo was born in Lucena, Córdoba, to a religious family dedicated to saddlemaking and later to the local timber industry. While his family wanted him to become a lawyer, he instead studied Classics at the University of Seville, developing a lifelong passion with Latin and Ancient Greek. He also began his political activism, opposing Spain's accession to NATO in 1986. After graduating, he became a Latin teacher at schools in Sanlúcar de Barrameda in the Province of Cádiz, and Aracena in the Province of Huelva. Openly gay, Maíllo says that he never received homophobic abuse fro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
