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Ludivina García Arias

Ludivina García Arias

Former Spanish MEP

Ludivina García Arias (born (1945-12-13)13 December 1945) is a Mexican-Spanish politician and member of the Spanish Socialist Workers Party (PSOE). Having emigrated from Mexico to Spain in the 1970s, she was a Member of the Congress of Deputies for Asturias from 1979 to 1986, and from 2000 to 2004. From 1987 until 1999, she was a Member of the European Parliament.

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Life and career

Ludivina García Arias was born in December 1945 to Asturian parents in Morelia in the Mexican state of Michoacán. She studied history at the National Autonomous University of Mexico and moved to Spain towards the end of the Francoist dictatorship.[1] She worked as a secondary school teacher.[2]

García Arias joined the PSOE in 1972, and was elected to the Congress of Deputies for Asturias in the 1979 general election.[2] She remained in this office until 1986. In 1987, she was elected to represent Spain at the European Parliament. She had this role until the 1999 European Parliament election.[3] In 2000, she was again elected to the Congress of Deputies. Her political career ended in 2004.[4]

References

  1. [1]
    "Habla la voz del exilio: "No le veo futuro a la III República a pesar de Juan Carlos I"" [The voice of exile speaks: "I don't see a future for the Third Republic despite Juan Carlos I"]. El Confidencial (in Spanish). Retrieved 27 October 2020.
  2. [2]
    "Ludivina García Arias, premio "Pura Tomás" por su trayectoria feminista" [Ludivina García Arias, "Pura Tomás" award for her feminist career]. La Nueva España (in Spanish). Retrieved 27 October 2020.
  3. [3]
    "Ludivina Garcia Arias". European Parliament. Retrieved 27 October 2020.
  4. [4]
    "García Arias, Ludivina" (in Spanish). Congreso de los Diputados. Archived from the original on 25 November 2020. Retrieved 27 October 2020.


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