Ludivina García Arias Explained

Party:Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE)
Birth Date:13 December 1945
Birth Place:Morelia, Michoacán
Education:National Autonomous University of Mexico
Office1:Member of the Congress of Deputies
Term Start1:5 April 2000
Term End1:20 January 2004
Constituency1:Asturias
Term Start2:18 November 1982
Term End2:23 April 1986
Constituency2:Asturias
Term Start3:23 March 1979
Term End3:31 August 1982
Constituency3:Oviedo
Office4:Member of the European Parliament
for Spain
Term Start4:4 July 1987
Term End4:19 July 1999

Ludivina García Arias (born 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.

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]

Notes and References

  1. Web site: 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". es. 27 October 2020. El Confidencial. 30 August 2020 .
  2. Web site: Ludivina García Arias, premio "Pura Tomás" por su trayectoria feminista . Ludivina García Arias, "Pura Tomás" award for her feminist career . es. 27 October 2020. La Nueva España. 26 May 2012 .
  3. Web site: Ludivina Garcia Arias. 13 December 1945 . 27 October 2020. European Parliament.
  4. Web site: García Arias, Ludivina. 27 October 2020. Congreso de los Diputados. es. 25 November 2020. https://web.archive.org/web/20201125173028/http://www.congreso.es/portal/page/portal/Congreso/Congreso/Diputados/BusqForm?_piref73_1333155_73_1333154_1333154.next_page=%2Fwc%2FfichaDiputado%3FidDiputado%3D287. dead.