Rafael Mayoral
Rafa Mayoral | |
|---|---|
 In April 2017 | |
| Member of the Congress of Deputies | |
| Assumed office 13 January 2016 | |
| Constituency | Madrid |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 26 March 1974 Madrid |
| Nationality | Spanish |
| Political party | Podemos (since 2014) |
| Other political affiliations | Communist Youth Union of Spain |
| Occupation | Politician, lawyer |
Rafael "Rafa" Mayoral Perales (born 1974) is a Spanish politician, lawyer and activist. A member of Podemos, he has served as MP in the 11th, 12th and 13th terms of the Congress of Deputies representing Madrid.
Biography
Born on 26 March 1974 in Madrid, he earned a Licentiate degree in Law at the Complutense University of Madrid (UCM).[1][2] He led the Madrid regional organization of the Communist Youth in the 1990s, where he met Pablo Iglesias Turrión.[3] In 2010 he headed a list to the 8th Congress of the Communist Party of Madrid (PCM), but Daniel Álvarez Morcillo, a Madrid municipal councillor adept to the orthodox line represented by Ángel Pérez, became the new Secretary-General of the PCM,[4] with Mayoral retreating and ultimately calling for endorsement to Mauricio Valiente.
He has worked as lawyer for Ecuadorian neighbour associations against evictions, with Mayoral later becoming a member of the Madrid branch of the Plataforma de Afectados por la Hipoteca (PAH), a grassroots anti-eviction movement.[5] He joined Podemos in the Spring of 2014, along Irene Montero, both active members in the PAH.[6][7]
In November 2014, following the results of the Podemos' Citizen Assembly Sí Se Puede, Mayoral became a member of the state-wide "Citizen Council",[8] the top body overseeing the party between the celebration of assemblies (congresses).
Mayoral ran 5th in the Podemos list in Madrid for the December 2015 Congressional election. Elected, he became a member of the 11th term of the Congress of Deputies,[9] the Lower House of the Cortes Generales. He renovated his seat at the June 2016 and April 2019 general elections, in which he ran 6th and 5th in the Unidos Podemos and the Unidas Podemos lists in Madrid, respectively.
References
- ^ "Rafael Mayoral Perales". Podemos.
{{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires|journal=(help) - ^ "Boletín Semanal. Comunidad de Madrid" (PDF). Podemos. p. 4.
- ^ Piña, Raúl (17 March 2016). "Montero y Mayoral, los fieles de Iglesias al alza". El Mundo.
- ^ "Daniel Álvarez, concejal en Madrid, nuevo Secretario General del PCM". La República. 31 May 2010.
- ^ Castro, Irene; Pais Beiro, Mario (10 November 2014). "Quién es quién de la lista de Pablo Iglesias para dirigir Podemos". eldiario.es.
- ^ "Así queda la nueva Ejecutiva de Podemos". Expansión. 18 February 2017.
- ^ García, Fernando (26 March 2016). "Irene Montero, la mujer que programa a Pablo Iglesias". La Vanguardia.
- ^ "Así es la dirección de Podemos". Libertad Digital. 15 November 2014.
- ^ "XI Legislatura (2016–2016). Mayoral Perales, Rafael". Congress of Deputies.