Susana Díaz

This name uses Spanish naming customs: the first or paternal family name is Díaz and the second or maternal family name is Pacheco.

Excelentísima Señora Susana Díaz


President of Andalusia
Incumbent
Assumed office 7 September 2013
Monarch	Juan Carlos I (2011–14) Felipe VI (2014–present)
Deputy	Diego Valderas (2012–15) Manuel Jiménez (2015–present)
Preceded by	José Antonio Griñán
Member of the Congress of Deputies
In office 14 March 2004 – 9 March 2008
Constituency	Seville
Member of the Senate
In office 21 December 2011 – 6 May 2012
Constituency	Andalusia
Personal details
Born	Susana Díaz Pacheco (1974-10-18) 18 October 1974 Seville, Spain
Political party	Spanish Socialist Workers' Party
Spouse(s)	José María Moriche Ibáñez
Children	1
Alma mater	University of Seville
Religion	Roman Catholicism

Susana Díaz Pacheco (Spanish pronunciation: [suˈsana ˈði.aθ]; born 18 October 1974) is a Spanish politician and member of the Spanish Socialist Workers' Party, currently President of Andalusia and Secretary General of the PSOE Andalusian branch. She acceeded the post in 2013 after José Antonio Griñán's renounce, and was re-elected in the 2015 regional election.

Biography

Susana Díaz was born the eldest child to José Díaz,^[1] a plumber in the Seville City Council, and his wife, a housewife with whom he had three other children.^[2]

Early political career

Susana Díaz was elected secretary of Organisation of Socialist Youth of Andalusia in 1997. In the elections of June 1999 she was included in the list of the PSOE to the City of Seville and was elected as councillor and, Alfredo Sánchez Monteseirín as mayor.

Susana Díaz studied law at the University of Seville.

President of Andalusia (2013–present)

Díaz was elected as President of Andalusia in 2013.

For the 2015 Andalusian parliamentary election, Díaz led a forceful campaign in which she transferred the blame for Andalusia’s economic problems onto Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy and the austerity cuts imposed by the central government. During the campaign, she also insisted that the Socialists would not form alliances with the Popular Party or Podemos if the vote failed to produce a clear-cut winner.^[3]

In the election, Díaz' party retained the same number of seats as prior to the election. The new centrist party, Citizens won 9 seats in the election. As her party did not win an absolute majority, they needed another party to reach the 55 seats needed for a majority. In early May 2015, her government received 56 votes for her investiture through an agreement with C's, thus being re-elected as regional President.

References

↑ "Susana Díaz wants to become 'baroness'" (in Spanish). El País. 2013-07-07.
↑ "The last Socialist hope" (in Spanish). El Mundo. 2013-11-24.
↑ Raphael Minder (March 22, 2016), Shy of Majority, Socialists Win in Spain’s Andalusia New York Times.

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Political offices
Preceded by Mar Moreno (Presidency) Micaela Navarro (Equality)	Regional Minister of the Presidency and Equality 2012–2013	Succeeded by Manuel Jiménez Barrios (Presidency) María José Sánchez Rubio (Equality)
Preceded by José Antonio Griñán	President of Andalusia 2013–present	Incumbent
Party political offices
Preceded by José Antonio Griñán	Secretary-General of the PSOE-A 2013–present	Incumbent

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