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Valentina Martínez Ferro

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Valentina Martínez
Personal details
Born
María Valentina Martínez Ferro

(1976-06-21) 21 June 1976 (age 48)
Santiago de Compostela, Spain
Political partyPeople's Party
Occupation

María Valentina Martínez Ferro (born 1976) is a Spanish politician, a member of the People's Party (PP). She has been a member of the 10th, 12th and 13th terms of the Congress of Deputies.

Biography

Born on 21 June 1976 in Santiago de Compostela (province of A Coruña).[1] She earned a licentiate degree in Political and Administration Sciences; she later obtained a master's degree in european studies at the Université catholique de Louvain.[2] Specialised in international relations,[3] she was part of the Secretariat of International Relations of the People's Party (PP) between 2002 and 2012.[4]

She was included in the 28th slot of the PP list in Madrid for the 2011 general election.[5] She was not elected then and was appointed Chief of Staff of Jorge Moragas (Mariano Rajoy's Chief of Staff).[1] She obtained a parliamentary seat in the Congress of Deputies in October 2014, covering the vacant left by Alberto Ruiz-Gallardón. During the 10th term of the Lower House, she served as Spokesperson in the Committee of International Development Cooperation and as member of the committees of Foreign Affairs and Budget.[6][7]

She ran 17th in the PP list in Madrid for the 2016 general election, but she was not elected this time either. In June 2018, she again obtained her seat covering a vacant post, this time the vacant seat left by Mariano Rajoy.[6]

She ran as candidate to a deputy seat 3rd the PP list for A Coruña (3rd place) vis-à-vis the April 2019 general election.[8] Elected MP, she became a member of the committees on Foreign Affairs, Ecological Transition, International Development Cooperation and the Joint Congress-Senate Committee for the European Union.[9] She replaced José Ramón García Hernández [es] as PP's Secretary on International Relations in July 2019.[10]

References

  1. ^ a b "El Gobierno nombra una directora de Gabinete del director de Gabinete". Público. 17 January 2012.
  2. ^ "Valentina martínez vuelve al congreso tras la renunciar rajoy al escaño". 15 June 2019.
  3. ^ "Las mujeres del PP marcan tendencia". La Razón. 19 November 2011.
  4. ^ Guzmán, Cecilia (17 January 2012). "El Gobierno cuenta con una directora de Gabinete del director de Gabinete". El Plural.
  5. ^ Juntas Electorales Provinciales: "Candidaturas proclamadas para las elecciones al Congreso de los Diputados y al Senado, convocadas por Real Decreto 1329/2011, de 26 de septiembre" (PDF). Boletín Oficial del Estado (257): 111372. 25 October 2011. ISSN 0212-033X.
  6. ^ a b Mayor Ortega, Leonor (20 June 2018). "Valentina Martínez Ferro, la verdadera sustituta de Mariano Rajoy". La Vanguardia.
  7. ^ "X Legislatura (2011-2016) Martínez Ferro, María Valentina". Congreso de los Diputados.
  8. ^ Juntas Electorales Provinciales: "Candidaturas proclamadas para las elecciones al Congreso de los Diputados y al Senado, convocadas por Real Decreto 129/2019, de 4 de marzo" (PDF). Boletín Oficial del Estado (79): 34279. 2 April 2019. ISSN 0212-033X.
  9. ^ "XIII Legislatura (2019-Actualidad) Martínez Ferro, María Valentina". Congreso de los Diputados.
  10. ^ "García Hernández, que compitió con Casado, regresa a la carrera diplomática". www.eldiario.es. eldiario.es. 12 August 2019.
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