Carolina Bescansa Explained

Carolina Bescansa
Birth Date:13 February 1971
Birth Place:Santiago de Compostela, Spain
Office1:Member of the Spanish Congress of Deputies
Term Start1:13 January 2016
Term End1:5 March 2019
Constituency1:Madrid
Party:Más País (since 2019)
Otherparty:Podemos (2014–2019)
Birth Name:Carolina Bescansa Hernández
Children:2

Carolina Bescansa is a Spanish politician and political scientist who co-founded the political party Podemos. She was a representative for Madrid in the Spanish Congress of Deputies from 2016 to 2019.

Academic work

Bescansa is from Santiago de Compostela. She studied Sociology and Political Science in Grenada and Madrid, focusing specifically on political sociology and the study of constitutional law.[1] [2] After graduating in 1994, she did a specialist degree in constitutional law at the Centre for Political and Constitutional Studies.[3] She then became a doctoral student at the Complutense University of Madrid, and in the 1999–2000 school year she participated in an Education Abroad Program at the University of California, San Diego.[3]

In 1995, she began to teach political science classes at the Complutense University of Madrid, where she became a member of the political science faculty specializing in the methodology of political science research.[3]

Political career

Bescansa was a co-founder of the political party Podemos, officially registering it as a political party on March 11, 2014 together with Pablo Iglesias Turrión and Juan Carlos Monedero.[1]

In 2014, Bescansa was not on the party list of Podemos, but that year she was elected to the Citizens' Council of the party with about 85% of the votes.[4] This made her the most powerful woman and one of the three most powerful people in the party organization.[5] Bescansa also used her expertise as a political science methodologist in her partisan work, heading the party's political analysis unit and analysing its surveys.[5]

In the 2015 Spanish general election, Bescansa was ranked second on the Podemos party list to the Congress of Deputies for the Madrid constituency, and she won the seat.[6] She launched a candidacy for President of the Congress of Deputies, but lost the race to Patxi López.[7]

In 2017, Bescansa publicly split with the leadership of Podemos, and left her positions within the party.[8] She was subsequently affiliated with a coalition of Más País and Equo.[8]

Notes and References

  1. News: Una gallega en el origen de Podemos . es . La Opinión . C. . Villar . May 30, 2014 . 2 September 2020.
  2. News: Bescansa y la teoría del paquete . es . Cadena SER . José María . Patiño . October 16, 2014 . 2 September 2020.
  3. Web site: es . Carolina Bescansa Hernández . Complutense University of Madrid . 2 September 2020.
  4. Web site: Resultados Completos . es . Podemos . 2014 . https://web.archive.org/web/20141117181435/http://asambleaciudadana.podemos.info/resultados-completos . 2 September 2020. 17 November 2014 .
  5. News: Los 62 de Podemos . es . El País . November 15, 2014 . 2 September 2020.
  6. Web site: Listado de los diputados electos en los comicios de hoy . es . El Confidencial . December 21, 2015 . 2 September 2020.
  7. News: Patxi López se estrena como presidente del Congreso pidiendo "diálogo y entendimiento" . es . El Mundo . Marisa . Cruz . January 13, 2016 . 2 September 2020.
  8. News: Carolina Bescansa dimite de sus cargos en Podemos, distanciada de Iglesias, y avisa: "Van a chocar dos trenes" . es . El Mundo . Álvaro . Carvajal . February 2, 2017 . 2 September 2020.