Francina Armengol | |
Honorific Prefix: | The Most Excellent |
Honorific Suffix: | MP |
Office: | President of the Congress of Deputies |
Term Start: | 17 August 2023 |
Predecessor: | Meritxell Batet |
Office2: | President of the Government of the Balearic Islands |
Monarch2: | Felipe VI |
Term Start2: | 2 July 2015 |
Term End2: | 20 June 2023 |
Predecessor2: | José Ramón Bauzà |
Successor2: | Marga Prohens |
Office3: | Secretary-general of the Socialist Party of the Balearic Islands |
Term Start3: | 26 February 2012 |
Predecessor3: | Francesc Antich |
Office4: | President of the Island Council of Mallorca |
Term Start4: | 7 July 2007 |
Term End4: | 25 June 2011 |
Predecessor4: | Maria Antònia Munar |
Successor4: | Maria Salom |
Office5: | Member of the Congress of Deputies |
Term Start5: | 17 August 2023 |
Constituency5: | Balearic Islands |
Office6: | Member of the Parliament of the Balearic Islands |
Term Start6: | 12 June 1999 |
Term End6: | 24 July 2023 |
Constituency6: | Mallorca |
Birth Name: | Francesca Lluch Armengol Socias |
Birth Date: | 11 August 1971 |
Birth Place: | Inca, Mallorca (Balearic Islands), Spain |
Party: | Socialist Party of the Balearic Islands |
Children: | 2 |
Alma Mater: | University of Barcelona |
Otherparty: | Spanish Socialist Workers' Party |
Francesca Lluc Armengol Socias, known as Francina Armengol Socias (pronounced as /ca/; born 11 August 1971), is a Spanish politician from the Socialist Party of the Balearic Islands. She currently serves as president of the Congress of Deputies since 2023 and as member of the Congress of Deputies from the Balearic Islands since 2023.[1]
Armengol served as president of the Balearic Islands between 2015 and 2023, and also the first woman to ever hold the office.[2] She ruled in coalition with the left-wing Podemos and the regional Catalanist party Mes per Mallorca as well as external support from the regionalist and Catalanist Mes per Menorca Party.[3]
In the 2023 Spanish general election Armengol was elected to the 15th Congress of Deputies representing the Balearic Islands.[4] In August 2023, the Socialists had Armengol appointed speaker or president of the Congress of Deputies with support from Catalan pro-independence parties.[5]
Armengol tested positive for COVID-19 on 20 December 2021.[6]
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