Cayo Lara
| Cayo Lara | |
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| General Coordinator of United Left | |
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In office 14 December 2008 – 4 July 2016 |
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| Preceded by | Gaspar Llamazares |
| Succeeded by | Alberto Garzón |
| Member of the Congress of Deputies | |
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In office 20 November 2011 – 13 November 2016 |
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| Constituency | Madrid |
| Mayor of Argamasilla de Alba | |
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In office 13 June 1987 – 12 June 1999 |
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| Personal details | |
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January 29, 1952 Argamasilla de Alba, Ciudad Real Province, Spain |
| Nationality | Spanish |
| Political party | Communist Party of Spain (United Left) |
| Children | 2 |
| Residence | Madrid, Argamasilla de Alba |
| Profession | Farmer |
Cayo Lara Moya (born 1952) is a Spanish politician. He has been the leader of United Left (IU) since December 2008. He is also a member of the leadership of the Communist Party of Spain.
Born at Argamasilla de Alba in Ciudad Real Province, Lara, the son of a truck driver, has spent most of his life there. At the age of 13, he abandoned his studies to help support his family, having several jobs, until returning from his military service where he established his own farm. By the late 1970s, he was one of the main leaders of the Farmers' Unions in his province and joined the Communist Party of Spain. With the restoration of democracy in Spain, he was elected a member of the executive committee of the Coordination of Farmers Organisations (COAG).
In 1987, Lara was elected Mayor of Argamasilla de Alba, remaining in that position until 1999. In 2000, he was appointed as General Coordinator of IU in Castile-La Mancha. He was a candidate for the Presidency of that community in the 2007 Regional elections, failing to win a seat in the Community's parliament. At that time, he was known for his defence of the Mayor of Seseña in Toledo and Party colleague Manuel Fuentes against building enterpeur Francisco Hernando, el Pocero, for the alleged corruption charges in that municipality.
In the wake of IU's poor results in the 2008 Spanish general election, the previous General Coordinator, Gaspar Llamazares, resigned. IU, with its alliance with the Catalan Initiative for Catalonia Greens, had lost three of their five seats in those elections.
Subsequently, three factions emerged prior to the 9th Federal Assembly of IU. One around the leadership and the majority of the membership of the Communist Party of Spain, one formed by the membership closer to the positions of Gaspar Llamazares, and a third one formed by the leaderships of Madrid, Aragon and Catalonia (with the Communist Party of Catalonia being prominent) was called the N-II (after the road that joins these territories). Lara, a member of the first group, and considered a moderate communist by the press, was chosen in October 2008 by the Federal Committee of PCE as the party's candidate to lead the list for the leadership election in the subsequent assembly, along with several other internal allies.
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