Adriana Lastra
Adriana Lastra Member of the Congress of Deputies | |
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Assumed office 13 January 2016 | |
Constituency | Asturias |
Member of the Parliament of Asturias | |
In office 27 May 2007 – 24 May 2015 | |
Constituency | Eastern |
Personal details | |
Born | Ribadesella, Spain | March 30, 1979
Political party | Spanish Socialist Workers' Party |
Occupation | Politician |
Adriana Lastra Fernández (born 30 March 1979 in
Biography
Lastra was born in Ribadesella, a municipality of the Spanish region of Asturias. She started the studying cultural anthropology but she did not finish the degree.[2]
Lastra joined the Socialist Workers' Party at the age of 18 and she was appointed Secretary-General of the Socialist Youth of Asturias the following year, in 1999, being in the position until 2004 when she was appointed Secretary for Social Movements and NGOs. Between 2008 and 2012 she served as Secretary for Local Policy of the Asturian Socialist Federation.
In the
National politics
As a very close person to the newly appointed Secretary-General of the
After the 2016 general election, the possibly of a third consecutive election was imminent and the Secretary-General Sánchez proposed to the Federal Committee of the PSOE (the executive body of the Party) the possibility of holding an Extraordinary Congress with an urgent nature to decide if they should allow the
She was one of the decisive supports in the decision of Pedro Sánchez to attend the
After the success of the 2018 vote of no confidence in the government of Mariano Rajoy, Pedro Sánchez was elected Prime Minister of Spain and the Leader (Spokesperson) of the Socialist Group in the Congress of Deputies Margarita Robles was appointed Minister of Defence, promoting Lastra to that position, becoming the youngest person and the third woman to occupy this position in the history of the Socialist Party.[6] She was replaced by Héctor Gómez Hernández on 8 September 2021.[7]
References
- ^ "Adriana Lastra será vicesecretaria general del PSOE". eldiario.es (in Spanish). 15 June 2017. Retrieved 2019-05-10.
- ^ "'Vividores' de la política | AsturiasDiario" (in European Spanish). Archived from the original on 2016-10-03. Retrieved 2019-05-10.
- ^ EFE (29 July 2014). "Adriana Lastra pide prudencia y evitar tensiones en las agrupaciones locales". La Nueva España (in Spanish). Retrieved 10 May 2019.
- ^ "Pedro Sánchez se va y apela a las bases para volver a liderar el PSOE". El Mundo (in Spanish). 29 October 2016. Retrieved 10 May 2019.
- ^ Sanz, Luis Ángel (15 June 2017). "Adriana Lastra será 'número dos' del PSOE". El Mundo (in Spanish). Madrid: Unidad Editorial. Retrieved 10 May 2019.
- 20minutos.es(in Spanish). 5 June 2018. Retrieved 10 May 2019.
- ^ "Sánchez oficializará hoy los nombramientos de Héctor Gómez y Eva Granados como portavoces parlamentarios". COPE (in Spanish). Europa Press. 2021-09-06. Retrieved 2021-09-08.