Demetrio Eduardo "Eddy" Sánchez Iglesias (born 1973) is a Spanish politician and economist.

Background

Sánchez was born on 1 September 1973 in

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(Venezuela), to a Cuban father and a Spanish mother. Sánchez moved to Spain when he was 14 years old. There he joined

Comisiones Obreras The Workers' Commissions () since the 1970s has become the largest trade union in Spain. It has more than one million members, and is the most successful union in labor elections, competing with the Unión General de Trabajadores (UGT), which is ...

(CC.OO.). He studied law at the

University of Salamanca The University of Salamanca () is a public university, public research university in Salamanca, Spain. Founded in 1218 by Alfonso IX of León, King Alfonso IX, it is the oldest university in the Hispanic world and the fourth oldest in the ...

(USAL) and graduated in Political Science and Sociology at the

Complutense University of Madrid The Complutense University of Madrid (, UCM; ) is a public research university located in Madrid. Founded in Alcalá in 1293 (before relocating to Madrid in 1836), it is one of the oldest operating universities in the world, and one of Spain's ...

(UCM).

Political career

He ran 16th in the United Left of the Community of Madrid–The Greens (IUCM–LV) list for the

2011 Madrilenian regional election A regional election was held in the Community of Madrid on Sunday, 22 May 2011, to elect the 9th Assembly of Madrid, Assembly of the Autonomous communities of Spain, autonomous community. All 129 seats in the Assembly were up for election. The ele ...

. As the candidature only. Retrieved 13 seats, he was not elected then a member of the regional legislature. A member of the

Communist Party of Spain The Communist Party of Spain (; PCE) is a communist party that, since 1986, has been part of the United Left coalition, which is currently part of Sumar. Two of its politicians are Spanish government ministers: Yolanda Díaz (Minister of L ...

(PCE), Sánchez, who had worked at the Assembly of Madrid as technician and as associate researcher for the UCM's Department of Applied Economy, was elected the Coordinator of

United Left of the Community of Madrid United Left of the Community of Madrid (, IU–CM or IUCM) was the regional branch in the Community of Madrid The Community of Madrid (; ) is one of the seventeen autonomous communities and 50 provinces of Spain, provinces of Spain. It is loc ...

(IU–CM) in December 2012. He handed in his resignation as Coordinator of IU–CM in December 2014, following the victory of

Tania Sánchez Tania Sánchez Melero (born 29 April 1979) is a Spanish politician. She was United Left member in the Assembly of Madrid until she left the party on 4 February 2015. She was again elected for the Assembly in 2019 as a member of Más Madrid. Fr ...

in the party primaries to elect a candidate to challenge the Presidency of the Community of Madrid. He became a member of the 9th term of the

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on 19 February 2015, covering the vacant seat of

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, who had precisely left the party along Tania Sánchez to pursue a different political project.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Sanchez, Eddy Members of the 9th Assembly of Madrid Members of the United Left–The Greens Parliamentary Group (Assembly of Madrid) 1973 births Living people Complutense University of Madrid alumni