Idoia Villanueva Explained

Party:Podemos
Office:Member of the European Parliament
Constituency:Spain
Term Start:2 July 2019
Birth Date:17 July 1980
Birth Place:Pamplona, Spain
Office2:Senator
Term Start2:2015
Term End2:2019
Appointed2:Parliament of Navarre
Nationality:Spanish

Idoia Villanueva Ruiz (pronounced as /es/; born 1980) is a Spanish politician and engineer. A member of Podemos, she serves as Member of the European Parliament integrated within the European United Left–Nordic Green Left political group since 2019. She previously was a member of the Senate of Spain from 2015 to 2019.

Biography

Born in Pamplona on 17 July 1980,[1] she earned a degree in IT engineering from the University of the Basque Country (UPV); she later obtained a master's degree in Business Management at the Autonomous University of Madrid (UAM).[2] She worked for ten years in the management and development of tech projects.[3] She was proposed to the post of Senator by Podemos,[4] and, thus, she was designated as member of the Upper House in September 2015 by the Parliament of Navarre. She served as Podemos spokesperson in the Committee on Foreign Affairs and the Committee for the European Union.[5] She joined the Podemos' executive board (the "Coordination Council") in February 2017 replacing Ángela Ballester.[6] In October 2018, she was announced as prospective party candidate for the 2019 European Parliament election in Spain, and she was ultimately included in the fourth place of the Unidas Podemos Cambiar Europa electoral list.[7] [8]

She was elected MEP.[9] [10] [11] She joined the Committee on Foreign Affairs (AFET), as well as the Delegation for relations with the People's Republic of China (D-CN), the Delegation for Relations with India (D-IN) and the Delegation to the ACP–EU Joint Parliamentary Assembly (DACP), serving as Vice-Chair in the latter body.[12]

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    1. Web site: Datos abiertos . 21 April 2019 . Senate of Spain.
    2. Fernández . Ibai . La dirección de Podemos apuesta por Villanueva como candidata en 2019 . Noticias de Navarra . 23 April 2018 . 21 April 2019 . 21 April 2019 . https://web.archive.org/web/20190421214505/https://www.noticiasdenavarra.com/2018/04/23/politica/navarra/la-direccion-de-podemos-apuesta-por-villanueva-como-candidata-en-2019 . dead .
    3. Quién es quién en la nueva Ejecutiva de Podemos. Cuarto Poder. Miguel. Muñoz. 20 February 2017.
    4. Web site: Idoia Villanueva, propuesta por Podemos, será senadora por Navarra. www.europapress.es. Europa Press. 11 September 2015.
    5. Pablo Bustinduy, Idoia Villanueva y Urbán lideran la lista de Podemos para Europa. El Confidencial. 16 October 2018.
    6. Idoia Villanueva integra la nueva Ejecutiva de Podemos como secretaria de Coordinación Ejecutiva del Consejo. 20minutos.es. 18 February 2017.
    7. Riveiro . Aitor . Bustinduy, Idoia Villanueva y Urbán encabezarán la lista oficial en las primarias de Podemos para las europeas . . 16 October 2018 . 21 April 2019.
    8. Resolución de 29 de abril de 2019, de la Presidencia de la Junta Electoral Central, de proclamación de candidaturas a las elecciones de diputados al Parlamento Europeo convocadas por Real Decreto 206/2019, de 1 de abril, a celebrar el 26 de mayo de 2019. Boletín Oficial del Estado. 103. 30 April 2019. 0212-033X. 46867–46920.

    9. Web site: Lista de los 54 eurodiputados elegidos este domingo en España. 26 May 2019.
    10. Web site: Key dates ahead . European Parliament . 28 May 2019 . en . 20 May 2017 . 25 May 2019 . https://web.archive.org/web/20190525003255/http://www.europarl.europa.eu/news/en/press-room/elections-press-kit/0/key-dates-ahead . dead .
    11. Web site: Key dates ahead. BBC News . 28 May 2019 . en . 22 May 2017.
    12. Web site: Idoia Villanueva Ruiz. European Parliament. www.europarl.europa.eu.