Gaspar Llamazares
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Gaspar Llamazares Trigo (born November 28, 1957 in Logroņo, La Rioja, Spain) is a Spanish politician. He is the leader of the leftist coalition Izquierda Unida (IU, United Left) since 2001, with the charge of general coordinator. He is a member of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Spain (PCE).
Second of six brethren, he spent his childhood and youth in Salinas, Castrillón, Asturias. He studied medicine in the Autonomous University of Madrid and in the University of Oviedo, where he received his degree. There he founded "Bocetos", a medical publication attempting to focus especially on the social issues of medicine, unlike the biologicist paradigms then dominating in medicine. He then completed his studies with a master in Public Health in the University of Havana, in Cuba. In 1985, back in Spain, he started teaching in the University of Santiago de Compostela and then in the Unidad Docente de Medicina de Familia in Cazoņa (Cantabria).
He entered the communist party in 1981. In 1988 he was elected Secretary General and General Coordinator of Izquierda Unida en Asturias. In 1991 he was elected deputy to the regional parliament of Asturias, where he was speaker for Izquierda Unida's group. In this chamber, IU colaborated with governments of the Spanish Socialist Workers' Party until 1995.
Llamazares was the General Secretary of the PCE in the autonomous community of Asturias and member of Asturias' Parliament between 1988 and 2000. Since 2000, he has been a deputy in the Spanish Congress for the constituency of Asturias.
See also: Politics of Spainast:Gaspar Llamazares es:Gaspar Llamazares Trigo