Iratxe García Pérez

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Iratxe García Pérez (born October 7, 1974 in Baracaldo ) is a Spanish politician of the socialist party PSOE and a member of the European Parliament . Since June 18, 2019, she has been the group leader of the Group of the Progressive Alliance of Social Democrats .

After a diploma in social work (1995), Iratxe García was a member of the municipal council of Laguna de Duero and the provincial parliament of Valladolid from 1995 to 2000 . She won a seat in the Spanish parliamentary elections in 2000 , which she held until 2004. In the 2004 European elections she was finally elected to the European Parliament , where she belongs to the Group of the Party of European Socialists (PES). She was a member of the Committee on Regional Development for the entire electoral term .

In the EU Parliament period 2009-2014, Perez was a member of the Committee on Agriculture and Rural Development , the Committee on Women's Rights and Gender Equality and the Delegation for Relations with India . Perez is a deputy in the Committee on Regional Development , in the Delegation for relations with Israel and the Delegation to the Parliamentary Assembly of the Union for the Mediterranean .

From 2014 to 2017 she was Chair of the Committee on Women's Rights and Gender Equality and thus a member of the Conference of Committee Chairs . She then remained a member of this committee until the end of the eighth electoral term. Pérez continued to be a member of the Committee on Environment, Public Health and Food Safety from 2014 to 2015 and of the Regional Development Committee from 2015 to 2019 .

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  1. ^ Spaniard García new group leader of the European Social Democrats. In: welt.de . June 18, 2019, accessed June 18, 2019 .
  2. ↑ entry to Iratxe García Pérez in the House database of the European Parliament
personal data
SURNAME García Pérez, Iratxe
ALTERNATIVE NAMES García, Iratxe
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Spanish politician (PSOE), MEP
DATE OF BIRTH October 7th 1974
PLACE OF BIRTH Baracaldo