Marlene Madrigal Flores | |
Birth Place: | Costa Rica |
Party: | Citizens' Action Party |
Profession: | Agricultural activist, politician |
Office: | Deputy Legislative Assembly of Costa Rica |
Term Start: | 2014 |
Term End: | 2018 |
Constituency: | Heredia, Costa Rica |
Marlene Madrigal Flores is a Costa Rican agricultural worker activist and a current deputy from Heredia in the Legislative Assembly.
Madrigal has a technical education.[1]
Madrigal has worked in several capacities as an agricultural activist. She has been a Resister for Sarapiquí, Vice-President of the National Agricultural Commission, President of the National Federation of Banana Workers, and a promoter for the Citizens' Action Party (PAC for its Spanish initials) in Sarapiquí. She has also worked for a number of agricultural companies and international agricultural unions.[2]
In 2013 alone, she visited the Legislative Assembly a total of 16 times.[3]
When Madrigal began running for deputy in 2013, she was 42 years old. She was elected as a PAC candidate alongside economist Henry Mora Jiménez.[4] In the general election, Madrigal was elected and she will now serve for the 2014 to 2018 legislative term.[5]