María Luisa Carcedo
María Luisa Carcedo Central Asturias | |
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| Personal details | |
| Born | 30 August 1953 Santa Bárbara, Asturias, Spain |
| Political party | Spanish Socialist Workers' Party |
| Alma mater | University of Oviedo |
María Luisa Carcedo Roces (born 30 August 1953)
In 2004, Carcedo was elected for the first time to represent Asturias in the Congress of Deputies. She was re-elected two more times, in 2008 and 2011. In 2015, she ran for a seat at the Senate, a seat that she got. She resigned from the Senate in 2018 when she was appointed High Commissioner and was elected again for Congress in 2019.
Biography
Carcedo has a degree in medicine and surgery from the University of Oviedo and a diploma in business medicine.[3] She began her professional activity in Primary Health Care from 1978 to 1984, and since 1995 she has been working at the Natahoyo Health Center in Gijón.
Political career
Related to the
In the regional elections of 1991 she was elected MP. Between 1991 and 1995 she was the Regional Minister of Environment and Town Planning.[5]
She was elected MP again in the regional elections of 1995, 1999 and 2003. Moreover, she was the spokesperson of the
After the
In September 2015, she was appointed
After the
With the successful no-confidence motion against Mariano Rajoy in June 2018, Pedro Sánchez became Prime Minister of Spain and gave her his trust again appointing her as High Commissioner for the Fight against Child Poverty, an office that she held until September 2018, when the Health Minister Carmen Montón resigned and she was promoted to that office.[12]
Health Minister
In September 2018, Pedro Sánchez appointed her as Minister of Health, Consumer Affairs and Social Welfare of the Government of Spain after the resignation of her predecessor, Carmen Montón.
As well as Montón, Carcedo took a tough position over homeopathy and other pseudosciences saying that one of her main compromises was «to fight against pseudosciences, and homeopathy is one of them».[13] A few days after that affirmation, the Health Ministry ordered the withdrawal of thousands of homeopathic products from market,[14] something that hundreds of scientists had asked a few months earlier.[15] Continuing with this position, Minister Carcedo wanted to stop the «intrusiveness of the pseudosciences in the health assistance» by forbidding by law the use of this products in «prioritarian» health centres. This would be done in coordination with the Ministry of Science and the Regional Health Departments.[16]
Another objective that Carcedo had was to continue with the objectives marked in her previous job as High Commissioner for the Fight against Child Poverty, saying that her and her team aim was to finish with «child poverty, that they [children] can live with their families without having to worry if they are going to have enough resources for the most basic».[17]
In January 2020, the Prime Minister replaced her with Salvador Illa.
She is credited as the originator of the euthanasia law passed in Spain in 2021.[18]
References
- ^ Congreso de los Diputados. "Ficha de Diputada. María Luisa Carcedo Roces". Retrieved 3 July 2011.
- ^ PSOE. "María Luisa Carcedo Roces". Retrieved 11 September 2018.
- ^ "María Luisa Carcedo - PSOE". www.psoe.es. Retrieved 2018-09-12.
- ^ "Historical archive of the socialist party". 2013-09-28. Archived from the original on 2013-09-28. Retrieved 2018-11-09.
- ^ "Regional Governments of Asturias since 1982" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2014-09-04.
- ^ Congress of Deputies. "María Luisa Carcedo - 8th Cortes Generales".
- ^ Congress of Deputies. "María Luisa Carcedo - 9th Cortes Generales".
- ^ Congress of Deputies. "María Luisa Carcedo - 10th Cortes Generales".
- ^ España, La Nueva. "Francisco Blanco y Elsa Pérez asumen cargos de Carcedo y Lastra en la FSA". Retrieved 2018-11-09.
- ^ Senate of Spain. "Senator's file - María Luisa Carcedo, 10th Cortes Generales". www.senado.es (in Spanish). Retrieved 2018-11-09.
- ISSN 1134-6582. Retrieved 2018-11-09.
- ^ "Maria Luisa Carcedo named as Spanish health minister - Xinhua | English.news.cn". www.xinhuanet.com. Archived from the original on September 13, 2018. Retrieved 2018-11-09.
- ^ "María Luisa Carcedo: "Combatiré las pseudociencias, y la homeopatía lo es"". La Vanguardia. Retrieved 2018-11-09.
- ^ "Spain wages war on dubious homeopathy meds". 2018-10-31. Retrieved 2018-11-09.
- ISSN 1134-6582. Retrieved 2018-11-09.
- ^ "Sanidad quiere prohibir pseudociencias en centros sanitarios "prioritarios"". Redacción Médica (in European Spanish). Retrieved 2018-11-09.
- ISSN 1134-6582. Retrieved 2018-11-09.
- ^ Benito, Emilio de (2020-12-17). "María Luisa Carcedo: "Se ha aprobado un derecho que nos hace más libres"". El País (in Spanish). Retrieved 2022-01-27.