They are a total of 20 women out of 52 candidates those that lead the candidacies to the Lower House compared to the 15 that did so in the past generals.
Within the aggressive transfer policy that Ciudadanos has carried out for the appointment of April 28, there are three independent women at the head of the orange lists, among them Maria del Carmen Martinez, head of the list for Cádiz.
A member of the Andalusian Parliament, Martínez is known above all as a sommelier and, in fact, is the director of the Cádiz Sommelier School.
Another independent, Maria Angeles RosadoThe first on the Guadalajara list is a farmer from the tiny town of Sayatón, which has only fifty inhabitants, in addition to having a degree in Political Science.
And for the Valladolid constituency, Cs has incorporated Soraya may, Secretary General of the Association of Autonomous Workers (ATA) and president of this body in Castilla y León.
In his profile on the LinkedIn social network, he affirms that institutional representation and the ‘lobby’ are his “strengths”.
There are thirteen other women who also make their debut in the “heads” of the districts of Barcelona, Lleida, Valencia, Albacete, Ourense, Pontevedra, Jaén, Burgos, Huesca, Badajoz, Cáceres, La Rioja and Ceuta.
Of these, the “Self-signing” of Inés Arrimadas, the leader of the opposition of Cs in Catalonia, to lead the list for Barcelona.
There is also a former leader of the Andalusian PP, Mary Adam, who was a candidate in 2017 for the General Secretariat of the PP of Jaén and now heads the list of Cs for that constituency.
Four of the applicants come from the world of Law, among them María Victoria Domínguez, who was a prosecutor of the Superior Court of Justice of Extremadura and is now a deputy in the Extremadura Parliament and is presented for the Cáceres list.
Marta Rivera, one of the best-known deputies on the bench of the orange group in Congress, who attended Madrid in the last elections, heads the list for A Coruña in the next ones.
Among the new faces, another architect is also incorporated, María José Calderón, from Badajoz, and a journalist, Beatriz Pino, press officer for Cs in Galicia, who attends Pontevedra.
Only three women repeat at the starting posts: Melisa Rodríguez, also an architect, from Santa Cruz de Tenerife; Marta Martín, for Alicante, and Sandra Juliá, for Castellón.
There are a total of 56 female candidates in the Senate, and in most of the provinces, only one of the three names that, in general, each party elects for the Upper House ballot is a woman.
In global terms, Ciudadanos has renewed practically all its “squad” of first swords to Congress, since the changes have affected almost 80 percent of the “heads” of the 52 constituencies.
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