Amparo Marco

María Amparo Marco Gual (born 8 February 1968)[1] is a Spanish economist and Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE) politician. She was a deputy in the Corts Valencianes (2003–2011), a city councillor (2007–2023) and mayor (2015–2023) of Castellón de la Plana, and was elected to the Senate of Spain in 2023.

Biography

Marco was born in Castellón de la Plana. She graduated in economic and business sciences from the University of Valencia in 1992 and achieved a doctorate in business management and administration from the Jaume I University in 1998.[1] She then became a professor in the Department of Finance and Accounting at the same university.[1] She was still lecturing as of 2017, when she was mayor.[2]

In the 2003 Valencian regional election, Marco was elected to the Corts Valencianes, where she remained until 2011.[2] First elected to the city council in Castellón in 2007, she was elected at the end of 2014 as the Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE) candidate for mayor in 2015.[3] In the election, her party won seven seats and the People's Party (PP) of incumbent Alfonso Bataller eight, but she was installed as the city's first woman mayor with the support of Coalició Compromís and Castelló en Moviment, while the PP abstained due to Bataller's implication in corruption.[4] Four years later, the PSOE was the most voted party in the city for the first time since 1987 and she was re-elected, with the support of Compromís and a coalition led by Unidas Podemos.[5]

Marco ran again for mayor in 2023.[6] Her mandate ended, as Begoña Carrasco of the PP was invested mayor as leader of the most voted list (11 out of 27 seats).[7] Soon after the local elections, a general election was called and Marco led the PSOE list in the Castellón constituency.[8] As the third most-voted candidate, she took the PSOE's only seat from the four-seat constituency, with the others going to the PP.[9]

References

  1. ^ a b c Campos, A. (8 May 2023). "Amparo Marco, formación y trayectoria profesional" [Amparo Marco, education and professional career]. El Periódico Mediterráneo (in Spanish). Retrieved 18 February 2026.
  2. ^ a b Maceda, Víctor (25 December 2017). "«Estem ordenant la casa, no expandint-la»" ["We're tidying up the house, not expanding it"]. Els Temps (in Catalan). Retrieved 18 February 2026.
  3. ^ "Amparo Marco hace una llamada al cambio para "Dar a Castellón una oportunidad de futuro"" [Amparo Marco makes a call for change to "give Castellón an opportunity for the future"]. El Periòdic (in Spanish). 22 December 2014. Retrieved 18 February 2026.
  4. ^ Ortega, Lorena (13 June 2015). "La socialista Amparo Marco, primera alcaldessa de Castelló" [Socialist Amparo Marco, first female mayor of Castellón]. El País (in Catalan). Retrieved 18 February 2026.
  5. ^ Maicas, Jaume (15 June 2019). "Amparo Marco, elegida alcaldesa del Ayuntamiento de Castelló" [Amparo Marco, elected mayor of Castellón City Council] (in Spanish). Cadena SER. Retrieved 18 February 2026.
  6. ^ Ortega, N. (13 April 2023). "Candidatos a la alcaldía de Castellón en las elecciones municipales 2023" [Candidates for mayor of Castellón in the 2023 municipal elections]. Las Provincias (in Spanish). Retrieved 18 February 2026.
  7. ^ "Begoña Carrasco toma posesión como nueva alcaldesa de Castelló sin el apoyo de Vox" [Begoña Carrasco takes office as new mayor of Castellón without the support of Vox] (in Spanish). Cadena SER. 17 June 2023. Retrieved 18 February 2026.
  8. ^ "El PSOE apuesta por Amparo Marco como candidata al Senado y Susana Ros al Congreso de los Diputados" [PSOE bets on Amparo Marco as candidate for the Senate and Susana Ros to the Congress of Deputies] (in Spanish). Cadena SER. 6 June 2023. Retrieved 18 February 2026.
  9. ^ "Castellón" (in Spanish). Europa Press. Retrieved 18 February 2026.
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