Inés Sabanés
Member of the Congress of Deputies
In office
3 December 2019 – 17 August 2023
ConstituencyMadrid
Madrid municipal councillor
In office
13 June 2015 – 20 December 2019
Member of the Assembly of Madrid
In office
12 June 2007 – 29 March 2011
Madrid municipal councillor
In office
June 1999 – June 2007
Member of the Congress of Deputies
In office
25 March 1996 – 3 September 1999
ConstituencyMadrid
Personal details
Born24 June 1953
Cubells, Catalonia, Spain
CitizenshipSpanish
Political partyPASOC (1982–2001)
IU (1986–2011)
Equo (since 2011)
OccupationPolitician, civil servant, handballer

Inés Sabanés Nadal (born 1953) is a Spanish eco-socialist politician. She served as Madrid's Councillor for the Environment and Mobility from 2015 to 2019.

Biography

Born on 24 June 1953 in Cubells,[1] province of Lleida. She moved to Madrid to study at the National Institute for Physical Education (now part of the Technical University of Madrid). She played for the Women's Handball section of Atlético Madrid,[2] as well as for the handball national team.[3]

Sabanés, who had become a member of the Unión General de Trabajadores (UGT) and the Socialist Action Party (PASOC) in 1982, was a founding member of the United Left in 1986.[2] A resident in Vallecas, she became a civil servant of the Madrid City Council in 1986, and she worked in the Municipal Sports Institute until 1996.[4]

She ran sixth in the IU list in Madrid for the 1996 general election[5] and became a member of the Spanish lower house, in what it was her first elected office.[6] She left her seat in September 1999,[7] as she had successfully ran as candidate in the 1999 municipal election in Madrid and had become city councillor. Following the decision of the PASOC party to unlink from the IU federation in 2001, Sabanés and fellow PASOC colleague Franco González decided to remain in IU.[8] She renovated her seat as city councillor following the 2003 municipal election for the 2003–2007 term.[1]

She led the IU list for the 2007 Madrilenian regional election,[9] becoming a member of the 8th term of the regional legislature,[1] as well as the Spokesperson of the parliamentary group. She was removed from the later post in December 2009 and was replaced by Gregorio Gordo.[10] Gradually distanced from the IU board,[11] Sabanés left IU and joined Equo in June 2011.[4][12] She also returned to her post as civil servant in the city council.[4]

She ran third in the Ahora Madrid list for the 2015 Madrid municipal election. Sabanés became city councillor for another spell and, as member of the municipal government board presided by Manuela Carmena, she has served as councillor of Environment and Mobility of the corporation during the 2015–2019 term, in which she promoted Madrid Central, a plan for a new range of inner-city traffic restrictions[13][14] as well as the "re-naturalization" of the Manzanares river, opening the locks impounding the stream along its watercourse.[15]

Standing up for reelection at the May 2019 Madrid municipal election under the Más Madrid banner, she renovated her seat as municipal councillor, switching to the opposition following the investiture of PP's José Luis Martínez-Almeida as new mayor in June 2019.

Sabanés ran 3rd in the list of the Más País–Equo list in Madrid for the Congress of Deputies led by Íñigo Errejón vis-à-vis the November 2019 Spanish general election. The coalition only earned 2 MPs at the election, but, following the renouncement of Marta Higueras (number 2) to assume office,[16] Sabanés did so,[17] becoming a legislator since the beginning of the legislative term on 3 December 2019. Later in December she left her seat of city councillor. The municipal government of PP and Citizens made the most of the gap until her successor (Mar Barberán) took office, passing the annual budget in a controversial action that spearheaded the absence en bloc of the opposition councillors during the vote as sign of protest.[18]

Equo members elected Sabanés as Federal Co-Spokesperson of the party along Florent Marcellesi in February 2020.[19]

References

  1. 1 2 3 "Inés Sabanés Nadal". Assembly of Madrid.
  2. 1 2 "27-M.-Perfiles. Inés Sabanés debuta en la Comunidad con la intención de ser clave en un futuro Gobierno progresista". Europa Press. 12 May 2007.
  3. ↑ "El alcalde de Madrid tiene un talante claramente misógino". El País. 9 June 1999.
  4. 1 2 3 Martín, María (29 June 2011). "Inés Sabanés recupera su plaza en el Ayuntamiento de Madrid". El Mundo.
  5. ↑ Juntas Electorales Provinciales: "Candidaturas proclamadas para las elecciones al Congreso de los Diputados y al Senado, convocadas por Real Decreto 1/1996, de 8 de enero" (PDF). Boletín Oficial del Estado (32): 4006. 6 February 1996. ISSN 0212-033X.
  6. ↑ Romero, Juanma (5 September 2011). "Equo elige a Inés Sabanés para dirigir su campaña". Público.
  7. ↑ "VI Legislatura (1996–2000). Sabanés Nadal, Inés". Congress of Deputies.
  8. ↑ Serrano, Rodolfo (11 July 2001). "Inés Sabanés y Franco González crean la Corriente Socialista en IU-Madrid". El País.
  9. ↑ Junta Electoral Provincial de Madrid: "Elecciones a la Asamblea de Madrid 2007. Candidaturas proclamadas" (PDF). Boletín Oficial de la Comunidad de Madrid (102): 93. 1 May 2007.
  10. ↑ Romero, Juanma (18 December 2009). "IU desaloja a Sabanés de la portavocía en la Asamblea de Madrid". Público.
  11. ↑ Romero, Juanma (15 June 2011). "Sabanés deja IU para irse a Equo". Público.
  12. ↑ González, Jesús Sérvulo; Álvarez, Pilar (16 June 2011). "Inés Sabanés abandona IU y se une al proyecto Equo". El País.
  13. ↑ Vilaseró, Manuel (30 November 2018). "Inés Sabanés: "Con sus críticas a Madrid Central el PP retrocede a los años 80"". El Periódico.
  14. ↑ "Madrid introduces traffic restrictions for older petrol and diesel cars". Evening Express. 30 November 2018.
  15. ↑ Pérez-Lanzac, Carmen (10 August 2018). "Regeneración exprés en el Manzanares". El País.
  16. ↑ Caballero, Fátima (20 November 2019). "Marta Higueras renuncia a su escaño por Más País en el Congreso de los Diputados y el cargo lo ocupará Inés Sabanés". eldiario.es.
  17. ↑ "XIV Legislatura (2019-Actualidad) Sabanés Nadal, Inés". Congress of Deputies.
  18. ↑ "El PP aprovecha la renuncia de Sabanés, aún no sustituida, para sacar el Presupuesto de Madrid con la abstención de Vox". InfoLibre. 23 December 2019.
  19. ↑ "Inés Sabanés y Florent Marcellesi, elegidos nuevos coportavoces de Equo". eldiario.es. 25 February 2020.
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