Gaspar Llamazares
| Gaspar Llamazares | |
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| General Coordinator of United Left | |
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In office December 2000 – October 2008 |
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| Preceded by | Julio Anguita |
| Succeeded by | Cayo Lara |
| Member of the Congress of Deputies | |
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Assumed office 20 November 2011 |
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| Constituency | Asturias |
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In office 14 March 2004 – 20 November 2011 |
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| Constituency | Madrid |
| Member of the Congress of Deputies | |
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In office 12 March 2000 – 14 March 2004 |
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| Constituency | Asturias |
| Personal details | |
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Gaspar Llamazares Trigo November 28, 1957 Logroño, La Rioja, Spain |
| Nationality | Spanish |
| Children | 1 |
| Residence | Asturias - Madrid |
| Website | http://www.gasparllamazares.com |
Gaspar Llamazares Trigo (Spanish pronunciation: [ɡasˈpar ʎamaˈθaɾes ˈtɾiɣo]; born 28 November 1957) is a Spanish politician. He was the leader of the leftist coalition Izquierda Unida (IU, United Left) from 2001 to 2008, in the post of General Coordinator. He is a member of the Communist Party of Spain (PCE).
Llamazares was born in Logroño, La Rioja, Spain. Second of six brothers and sisters, he spent his childhood and youth in Salinas, Castrillón, Asturias. He studied medicine in the Autonomous University of Madrid and in the University of Oviedo, where he received his degree. There, he founded "Bocetos" ("sketches"), a medical publication attempting to focus especially on the social issues of medicine, unlike the biological paradigms then dominating in medicine. He then completed his studies with a Masters in Public Health in the University of Havana, in Cuba. In 1985, back in Spain, he started teaching in the University of Santiago de Compostela, and then in the Unidad Docente de Medicina de Familia in Cazoña (Cantabria).
He joined the Communist Party in 1981. In 1988, he was elected Secretary General and General Coordinator of Izquierda Unida in Asturias. In 1991, he was elected deputy to the regional parliament of Asturias, where he was spokesman for Izquierda Unida's group. In this chamber, IU worked with governments of the Spanish Socialist Workers' Party until 1995.
Llamazares was the General Secretary of the PCE in the autonomous community of Asturias, and member of Asturias' Parliament between 1988 and 2000.
Llamazares was elected deputy in the Spanish Congress for the constituency of Asturias in the 2000 General Elections. Following the poor results obtained by IU in that elections (20 deputies in 1996, and 8 in 2000), Llamazares announced his intentions to run for the post of General Coordinator in the Coalition's sixth Federal Assembly due to be held December that year. During the Assembly, the post was contested by Francisco Frutos, Secretary General of the Communist Party of Spain, and Angeles Maestro, who was supported by the most radical factions of IU, along with Llamazares, who was supported by the then General Coordinator Julio Anguita. In the Election for the Political Committee, the list backing Llamazares obtained 32 seats, whilst the list backing Frutos obtained 30 seats, and the list backing Maestro obtained 13 seats. In the following General Coordinator election, Maestro's supporters abstained, allowing Llamazares to be elected as General Coordinator. Being the General Coordinator, Llamazares was also designated as IU's parliamentary leader.
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