Roser Maestro

Roser Maestro Moliner
Member of the Congress of Deputies
In office 8 May 2019 – 24 September 2019
Constituency	Valencia
Personal details
Born	(1988-11-18) 18 November 1988 (age 36) Puerto de Sagunto, Valencian Community, Spain
Political party	Unidas Podemos United Left of the Valencian Country Communist Party of the Valencian Country
Occupation	politician

Roser Maestro Moliner (born in Puerto de Sagunto, 18 November 1988)^[1] is a Spanish communist politician and member of the Congress of Deputies since the 13th legislature.^[1] She is a member of the United Left of the Valencian Country and the Communist Party of the Valencian Country.^[1]

Biography

She was previously a councillor in Sagunto, Valencian Community.^[2] She was elected for the office in the 2015 Spanish local elections for the United Left of the Valencian Country.^[3]

In the 2015 Spanish general election she ran for the Congress of Deputies for the Valencia constituency.^[4]

In March 2019, she won the primary elections of the United Left of the Valencian Country for the April 2019 Spanish general election. She was the head of the candidature promoted by the Communist Party of the Valencian Country, competing with the candidature of Esther López Barceló, which was closer to the United Left direction.^[5] The primaries list headed by Maestro was initially formed by women only, but it had to be modified to comply with the parity law.^[6]

References

1. "Maestro Moliner, Roser". Congress of Deputies (in Spanish). Retrieved 1 October 2019.
2. "La concejala de EU de Sagunt Roser Maestro toma posesión de su acta como diputada de Unidas Podemos en el Congreso de los Diputados". El Periódico de Aquí (in Spanish). 22 May 2019. Retrieved 1 October 2019.
3. "Concejales electos" (PDF). Ayuntamiento de Sagunto (in Spanish). 24 April 2015. Retrieved 2 October 2019.
4. Arribas, Mónica (12 December 2015). "Compromís-Podemos arrasa en Sagunt y acaba con la hegemonía del PP". Levante-EMV (in Spanish). Retrieved 2 October 2019.
5. "Roser Maestro gana las primarias a López Barceló y será la candidata de EU al Congreso". Valencia Plaza (in Spanish). 12 March 2019. Retrieved 1 October 2019.
6. Giménez, Miguel (6 March 2019). "IU obliga a modificar la lista de Roser Maestro a las primarias al Congreso por Valencia al estar compuesta sólo por mujeres". eldiario.es (in Spanish). Retrieved 1 October 2019.