Demetrio Eduardo "Eddy" Sánchez Iglesias (born 1973) is a Spanish politician and economist.

Eddy Sánchez
In October 2018
Coordinator of United Left of the Community of Madrid
In office
December 2012 – December 2014
Member of the Assembly of Madrid
In office
19 February 2015 – 31 March 2015
Personal details
Born (1973-09-01) 1 September 1973 (age 51)
Maracay, Venezuela
Political partyPCE
OccupationEconomist, politician, researcher

Background

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Sánchez was born on 1 September 1973 in Maracay (Venezuela),[1] to a Cuban father and a Spanish mother. Sánchez moved to Spain when he was 14 years old.[2] There he joined Comisiones Obreras (CC.OO.).[2] He studied law at the University of Salamanca (USAL) and graduated in Political Science and Sociology at the Complutense University of Madrid (UCM).[2][3]

Political career

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He ran 16th in the United Left of the Community of Madrid–The Greens (IUCM–LV) list for the 2011 Madrilenian regional election.[4] As the candidature only. Retrieved 13 seats, he was not elected then a member of the regional legislature.

A member of the Communist Party of Spain (PCE),[5] Sánchez, who had worked at the Assembly of Madrid as technician and as associate researcher for the UCM's Department of Applied Economy, was elected the Coordinator of United Left of the Community of Madrid (IU–CM) in December 2012.[1][3] He handed in his resignation as Coordinator of IU–CM in December 2014, following the victory of Tania Sánchez in the party primaries to elect a candidate to challenge the Presidency of the Community of Madrid.[6]

He became a member of the 9th term of the Assembly of Madrid on 19 February 2015, covering the vacant seat of María Espinosa de la Llave,[7] who had precisely left the party along Tania Sánchez to pursue a different political project.[6]

References

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  1. ^ a b "Eddy Sánchez, nuevo coordinador de Izquierda Unida en Madrid". Nueva Tribuna. 2 December 2012.
  2. ^ a b c Marcos, José (2 December 2012). "IU elige a un activista de base como nuevo coordinador". El País.
  3. ^ a b "Eddy Sánchez, nuevo coordinador general de IU-CM en sustitución de Gregorio Gordo". eldiario.es. 2 December 2012.
  4. ^ Junta Electoral Provincial de Madrid: "Candidaturas proclamadas por los diversos partidos políticos y coaliciones que concurren a las Elecciones a la Asamblea de Madrid 2011" (PDF). Boletín Oficial de la Comunidad de Madrid (97): 142. 26 April 2011.
  5. ^ "Eddy Sánchez, el economista que "pateará" la calle para derrotar a la derecha". El Diario Vasco. 2 December 2012. Archived from the original on 31 January 2019. Retrieved 30 January 2019.
  6. ^ a b "Eddy Sánchez entra como diputado en la Asamblea". Europa Press. 12 February 2015.
  7. ^ "Promesa o juramento ante el Pleno de la Asamblea, de fecha 19 de febrero de 2015, por el que adquiere la plena condición de Diputado de la Asamblea el Ilmo. Sr. D. Demetrio Eduardo Sánchez Iglesias, del Partido de Izquierda Unida-Los Verdes Comunidad de Madrid, en sustitución por renuncia de la Ilma. Sra. Dña. María Espinosa de la Llave y previa renuncia anticipada de Dña. Emilia Alonso Serrano" (PDF). Boletín Oficial de la Asamblea de Madrid (231): 27954. 26 February 2015. Archived from the original (PDF) on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 30 January 2019.