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Dina Bousselham (born 1990) is a Moroccan
political advisor Political consulting is a form of consulting that consists primarily of advising and assisting political campaigns. Although the most important role of political consultants is arguably the development and production of mass media (largely tele ...
,
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, and
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affiliated with the Spanish political party Podemos, and the director of the online newspaper ''La Última Hora!'' As a political science student at the
Complutense University of Madrid The Complutense University of Madrid ( es, Universidad Complutense de Madrid; UCM, links=no, ''Universidad de Madrid'', ''Universidad Central de Madrid''; la, Universitas Complutensis Matritensis, links=no) is a public research university loca ...
she took classes with
Pablo Iglesias Turrión Pablo Iglesias Turrión (; born 17 October 1978) is a Spanish political scientist and former politician. During his political career, he served as Second Deputy Prime Minister of Spain, Second Deputy Prime Minister and as Ministry of Social Aff ...
, who was a lecturer there. When Iglesias founded Podemos in 2014 and won election as a
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, he chose Bousselham as the head of his cabinet of advisors. Bousselham was later named as a manager of the Podemos party apparatus in Madrid, and she was chosen in a primary election as a Podemos candidate for the regional citizens council in 2019. However, after her application for Spanish citizenship was denied, she was not able to contest the general election. In 2020, she left Podemos to head the digital news service ''La Última Hora!''


Early life and education

Bousselham was born in 1990 in
Tangier Tangier ( ; ; ar, طنجة, Ṭanja) is a city in northwestern Morocco. It is on the Moroccan coast at the western entrance to the Strait of Gibraltar, where the Mediterranean Sea meets the Atlantic Ocean off Cape Spartel. The town is the cap ...
, and studied at the Instituto Español Severo Ochoa. In 2008, at the age of 18, she moved to Madrid to study and to play
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. She attended the Complutense University of Madrid where she studied political science. At the same time, she played football competitively in the CF Pozuelo and the club Santa Maria Caridad. She stopped playing competitive football in 2010 to focus on her studies. One of her professors of politics at the Complutense University was Pablo Iglesias Turrión. Bousselham also took part in the Erasmus Programme at the
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. After graduating in political science from the Complutense University, Bousselham completed a Master's degree at the Paris Institute for Advanced Studies in Latin America ( fr). She then returned to Madrid and completed a diploma in international relations, focusing on the prevention of international conflicts and cooperation and security in the
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.


Career

When Pablo Iglesias Turrión founded the Spanish political party Podemos in 2014, he selected Bousselham as a prominent assistant to work with him in the European Parliament. She became the head of his cabinet of advisors in the European Parliament. While she was a prominent assistant of Pablo Iglesias, a mobile phone that contained sensitive party information was stolen from her. Later, the Police Commissioner
José Manuel Villarejo José Manuel Villarejo ( El Carpio, Córdoba, August 3, 1951) is a Spanish businessman and a former officer in Spain's National Police Corps. He was arrested in 2017 and could face a jail term of 109 years if convicted. He is accused of involvemen ...
was potentially implicated in possessing copies of the information that had been on the phone's memory card, which led to a court case investigating the possibility that the theft was politically motivated. During the investigation it was discovered that the journalist Antonio Asensio had given Iglesias the card of the stolen mobile phone and that he had had it in his possession for a year and a half without telling Bousselham. In 2016, Bousselham was a member of
Ramón Espinar Merino Ramón Espinar Merino (born 1986) is a Spanish politician. A member of the Assembly of Madrid from 2015 to 2019, he led the Podemos (Spanish political party), Podemos party branch in the Community of Madrid between 2016 and 2019. Biography ;E ...
's candidacy list in the internal primary of Podemos Madrid, and she was elected to be a member of the Regional Citizens Council. In 2018 she applied to become a Spanish citizen, which is a necessary prerequisite for running as a candidate in regional elections. After Espinar resigned as the secretary general of Madrid Podemos, Bousselham was a member of the management appointed by the state party leadership to manage the party organization. However, Bousselham was not granted Spanish citizenship after her application in 2018, and she was not able to appear on the party list in the
November 2019 Spanish general election The November 2019 Spanish general election was held on Sunday, 10 November 2019, to elect the 14th Cortes Generales of the Kingdom of Spain. All 350 seats in the Congress of Deputies were up for election, as well as 208 of 265 seats in the Senate. ...
. In May 2020, Bousselham departed from Podemos to head the left-leaning online news source ''La Última Hora!'' This digital news service advertises itself as being independent of political parties but not politically neutral, and retains informal links to Podemos.


References

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