Topic summary
Yolanda Díaz
6 May 1971
Fene, Spain
- Communist Party of Spain (1986–present)
- Movimiento Sumar (2023–present)
Other political
affiliations
affiliations
Juan Andrés Meizoso
(m. 2004)- Labour lawyer
- politician
Yolanda Díaz Pérez (Spanish:; born 6 May 1971) is a Spanish politician and labour lawyer, currently serving as Second Deputy Prime Minister since 2021, and Minister of Labour and Social Economy of the Government of Spain since 2020. A longtime member of the Communist Party of Spain, in 2023 she founded the electoral alliance Sumar, as well as its instrumental party Movimiento Sumar, resigning as the leader of the alliance in 2024. She has been a member of the Congress of Deputies since 2016, having previously been a Ferrol municipal councillor (2003–2012) and member of the Parliament of Galicia (2012–2016). She was also the National Coordinator of Esquerda Unida (EU) from 2005 to 2017.