Alma Lucía Ezcurra Almansa (Spanish pronunciation: [ˈalma eθˈkura]; born 1986)[1] is a Spanish politician of the People's Party (PP). She was elected to the Assembly of Madrid in 2023 and the European Parliament in 2024.
Biography
editBorn in Madrid, Ezcurra graduated with a law degree from the Autonomous University of Madrid and has a master's degree in business law. She then worked as a junior analyst in FAES, a think tank led by former People's Party prime minister of Spain José María Aznar.[2]
In 2012, Ezcurra became a consultant to PP mayor of Madrid Ana Botella's cabinet, and from 2014, to the cabinet of Javier Fernández-Lasquetty the minister of health for the Government of the Community of Madrid. She then moved up to the national government of prime minister Mariano Rajoy, serving as director of the Department of Education, Science, Culture and Sport. After Rajoy was removed from office in 2018, she remained a consultant to the parliamentary PP group and the vice-presidency of the Congress of Deputies. From January 2021 to March 2023, she was director of public affairs for the private consultancy company Lasker.[2]
Ezcurra was named 33rd on the PP list for the 2023 Madrilenian regional election by incumbent President of the Community of Madrid Isabel Díaz Ayuso;[3] the party won a majority with 71 seats.[4] In November that year, she made a speech against the amnesty offered by Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE) prime minister Pedro Sánchez for the leaders of the 2017 Catalan independence referendum; various sources described the speech as viral.[2][5][6]
PP leader Alberto Núñez Feijóo chose Ezcurra as number three on an all-female top three on the party's list for the 2024 European Parliament election in Spain, after Dolors Montserrat and Carmen Crespo.[7] The party came first with 22 seats.[1]
References
edit- ^ a b "Estos son los 61 diputados españoles del próximo Parlamento Europeo" [These are the 61 Spanish deputies for the next European Parliament]. La Vanguardia (in Spanish). 10 June 2024. Retrieved 13 June 2024.
- ^ a b c Roces, Pablo R. (25 November 2023). "Alma Ezcurra, el nuevo ariete del ayusismo: del laboratorio político de Aznar a hacerse viral por su discurso anti amnistía" [Alma Ezcurra, the new battering ram of Ayuso's ideology: from Aznar's political laboratory to going viral for her speech against the amnesty]. El Mundo (in Spanish). Retrieved 13 June 2024.
- ^ Laurel, I. (18 April 2023). "Esta es la candidatura completa del PP de Madrid para el 28-M" [This is the complete PP of Madrid candidacy for the 28 May election]. La Razón (in Spanish). Retrieved 13 June 2024.
- ^ Barrado, Blas (29 May 2023). "Los diputados electos en la Asamblea de Madrid de PP, Más Madrid, PSOE y Vox" [The deputies elected to the Assembly of Madrid for the PP, Más Madrid, PSOE and Vox] (in Spanish). Madrid Actual. Retrieved 13 June 2024.
- ^ "El discurso viral de una diputada de Ayuso: "La amnistía, un fraude redactado por delincuentes"" [The viral speech of one of Ayuso's deputies: "The amnesty, a fraud written by delinquents"]. El Diario de Cantabria (in Spanish). 24 November 2023. Retrieved 13 June 2024.
- ^ González, Raúl (26 November 2023). "Quién es Alma Ezcurra, la diputada de Ayuso que debutó en la Asamblea con un discurso contra la amnistía" [Who is Alma Ezcurra, Ayuso's deputy who debuted in the Assembly with a speech against the amnesty]. Diario AS (in Spanish). Retrieved 13 June 2024.
- ^ "Feijóo elige a tres mujeres para encabezar la lista europea: Dolors Montserrat, Carmen Crespo y Alma Ezcurra" [Feijóo chooses three women to head the European list: Dolors Montserrat, Carmen Crespo and Alma Ezcurra] (in Spanish). Europa Press. 3 May 2024. Retrieved 13 June 2024.