Yolanda Díaz
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Díaz in 2024 | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Second Deputy Prime Minister of Spain | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Assumed office 12 July 2021 | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Monarch | Felipe VI | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Prime Minister | Pedro Sánchez | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Preceded by | Nadia Calviño | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Minister of Labour and Social Economy | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Assumed office 13 January 2020 | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Monarch | Felipe VI | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Prime Minister | Pedro Sánchez | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Preceded by | Magdalena Valerio (Labour, Migration and Social Security) | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Third Deputy Prime Minister of Spain | |||||||||||||||||||||
| In office 31 March 2021 – 12 July 2021 | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Monarch | Felipe VI | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Prime Minister | Pedro Sánchez | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Preceded by | Nadia Calviño | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Succeeded by | Teresa Ribera | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Member of the Congress of Deputies | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Assumed office 13 January 2016 | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Constituency | A Coruña (2016–2019) Pontevedra (2019–2023) Madrid (2023–present) | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Member of the Parliament of Galicia | |||||||||||||||||||||
| In office 13 November 2012 – 4 January 2016 | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Constituency | A Coruña | ||||||||||||||||||||
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| Born | Yolanda Díaz Pérez 6 May 1971 Fene, Spain | ||||||||||||||||||||
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| Other political affiliations | United Left (1986–2019) | ||||||||||||||||||||
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Juan Andrés Meizoso (m. 2004) | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Children | 1 | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Alma mater | University of Santiago de Compostela | ||||||||||||||||||||
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Yolanda Díaz Pérez (Spanish: [ɟʝoˈlanda ˈði.aθ]; born 6 May 1971) is a Spanish politician and labour lawyer, currently serving as Second Deputy Prime Minister since 2021, and Minister of Labour and Social Economy of the Government of Spain since 2020. A longtime member of the Communist Party of Spain, in 2023 she founded the electoral alliance Sumar, as well as its instrumental party Movimiento Sumar, resigning as the leader of the alliance in 2024. She has been a member of the Congress of Deputies since 2016, having previously been a Ferrol municipal councillor (2003–2012) and member of the Parliament of Galicia (2012–2016). She was also the National Coordinator of Esquerda Unida (EU) from 2005 to 2017.