Honorific Prefix: | The Most Excellent |
Office: | Minister of Education, Vocational Training and Sports |
Term Start: | 12 July 2021 |
Predecessor: | Isabel Celaá |
Primeminister: | Pedro Sánchez |
Office1: | Spokesperson of the Government |
Term Start1: | 21 November 2023 |
Primeminister1: | Pedro Sánchez |
Predecessor1: | Isabel Rodríguez García |
Office2: | Delegate of the Government of Spain in Aragon |
Term Start2: | 12 February 2020 |
Term End2: | 11 July 2021 |
Primeminister2: | Pedro Sánchez |
Predecessor2: | Carmen Sánchez Pérez |
Successor2: | Rosa Serrano Sierra |
Office3: | Councillor of Innovation, High Research and Universities of Aragón |
Term Start3: | 5 July 2015 |
Term End3: | 7 August 2019 |
President3: | Javier Lambán |
Predecessor3: | Dolores Serrat |
Successor3: | Maru Díaz |
Office4: | Member of the Congress of Deputies |
Term Start4: | 17 August 2023 |
Term End4: | 1 December 2023 |
Constituency4: | Zaragoza |
Term Start5: | 1 Abril 2008 |
Term End5: | 18 June 2015 |
Constituency5: | Zaragoza |
Office6: | Member of the Cortes of Aragon |
Term Start6: | 18 June 2015 |
Term End6: | 20 June 2019 |
Constituency6: | Zaragoza |
Birth Date: | 1 November 1977 |
Birth Place: | La Zaida, Zaragoza, Spain |
Party: | Spanish Socialist Workers' Party |
María del Pilar Alegría Continente (pronounced as /es/; born 1 November 1977) is a Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE) politician from Zaragoza who has been minister of Education, Vocational Training and Sports since 12 July 2021.
Alegría gained a master's degree in primary education and worked with the Department of Education, Culture and Sports in the Government of Aragon.[1] In 2008 she entered national politics when she was elected to the Spanish national parliament as a deputy for Zaragoza province as the second placed candidate on the PSOE list.[2]