Cristina Almeida
María Cristina Almeida Castro ( born July 24, 1944 in Badajoz) is a Spanish lawyer and politician.
She studied law at the University of Madrid in 1967 and opened her first law firm, where she represented the labor and political prisoners in the area primarily clients; now she is more engaged in the representation of abused and battered women and Ehe-/Scheidungsrecht. It is considered a social and feminist lawyer.
From 1963 to 1981 member of the Almeida (until 1977 banned ) Partido Comunista de España ( PCE ) before after disputes with Secretary Santiago Carrillo left as part of a " reform faction " the party. For the PCE she sat since 1979 in the city government of Madrid. From 1979 to 1983 she was also chairman of the District Assembly of Fuencarral and 1981-1983 educational and cultural councilor of Madrid.
In 1986, she was one of the founding members of the new left-wing coalition Izquierda Unida (IU ), for which it was from 1989 to 1993 and from 1996 to 1999 Member of the Lower House of the Spanish Parliament. Izquierda Unida Almeida Within the block belonged to the party independents who stood in opposition especially after the election Julio Anguitas as Chairman of the PCE ( the other main block of the IU ) and Secretary General of the IU for this. The blocks differed in the fact that the PCE leadership of the Social Democratic government Partido Socialista Obrero Español ( PSOE) make the role as the leading Left party in dispute and the independents more 're looking for the approach to the PSOE. Anguita is made primarily responsible for ensuring that Almeida and others ( Nicolás Sartorius, Pablo Castellano ) were not nominated for the parliamentary elections in 1993. Almeida and other members of the IU founded in 1996 within the Left Alliance party Partido Democrático de Nueva Izquierda ( PDNI, German Democratic Party of the New Left ), whose chairman was Almeida.
After clashes with IU leader Anguita the PDNI finally in 1997 resigned from the Izquierda Unida and joined the PSOE in 1999, initially for an electoral alliance that led to the accession of the institutional PDNI the PSOE in 2000. Almeida ran in 1999 as a Socialist candidate for the Presidency of the Autonomous Community of Madrid and for the Parliament of the Autonomous Community. In the elections to the Regional Presidency, she was defeated by Alberto Ruiz- Gallardón Christian; in the parliamentary elections, she won a seat from 1999 to 2003 she was seconded Representative of the Madrid Region Member of the Spanish Senate and here from 1999 to 2000 second spokeswoman for the Education and Culture Committee, and from 2000 to 2003 vice-chairman of the Committee on issues of the Autonomous Communities.
As editor and author, she participated in various magazines rights and women's issues as well as neighborhood associations. (Neighborhood associations originated in Spain in the Franco - time basis often uncontrolled construction and inadequate infrastructure and formed part of the opposition to the dictatorship ). She wrote the essay La mujer y el mundo del trabajo (1982).
In 2006 she took part in a television program of the Spanish private broadcaster laSexta, are given in the courses for comedic, political and other monologues.