Lidia Senra Rodríguez (born 14 June 1958) is an agrarian and political unionist from Galicia. She was secretary general of the Sindicato Labrego Galego (SLG) for 18 years and, since 2014, has been a Member of the European Parliament.
Lidia Senra | |
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| Member of the European Parliament | |
| In office 1 July 2014 | |
| Secretary General of the Sindicato Labrego Galego-Comisións Labregas | |
| In office 1984–2007 | |
| Personal details | |
| Born | Lidia Senra Rodríguez 14 June 1958 A Pobra do Brollón, Spain |
| Political party | Anova–Nationalist Brotherhood |
| Other political affiliations | Sindicato Labrego Galego-Comisións Labregas |
| Occupation | Organic farmer, beekeeper, politician |
| Website | ageuropa |
Biography
editLidia Senra took Baccalaureate studies in Monforte de Lemos and then began to collaborate with the Committees of Axuda to Loita Labrega in the mid-1970s. In 1984, during the second congress of Comisións Labregas, she was elected to be responsible for organization and finance. Five years later, in the third congress, she acceded to the general secretariat of the Sindicato Labrego Galego (SLG). At that time, the Sindicato Labrego Galego-Comisións Labregas was in the orbit of the Galician People's Union (UPG), the Marxist–Leninist party that constituted the nucleus of the Galician Nationalist Bloc (in fact, it was the UPG that chose the union's secretaries general), and the SLG constituted the agrarian front of the BNG.[1] Senra was re-elected three times. In 2007, she announced that she would not run for re-election.[2] As secretary general of the SLG, she was a member of the executive of the Coordination Paysanne Européenne (transformed in 2008 into the European Coordination of Via Campesina, the world peasant movement that brings together organizations from the Americas, Asia, Africa, and Europe).[1] In addition, she actively participated in the European Social Forums of Florence (2002), Paris (2003), and London (2004).
Despite her initial closeness to the UPG, she distanced herself from this organization. Thus, during the stage of the Galician bipartite (2005–2009), the union maintained a confrontation with the Xunta de Galicia's Ministry of Rural Affairs, in the hands of the UPG.[3] Senra was integrated into the current Encontro Irmandiño in 2009, sponsored by Xosé Manuel Beiras.[4] Senra left the Galego Nationalist Bloc in 2012, at the same time as the supporters of Beiras,[5] who later formed the Anova–Nationalist Brotherhood.
After the internal vote in which Anova narrowly decided to stand for the 2014 European Parliament elections at the hands of the United Left (with which it formed the Galician Left Alternative in the Parliament of Galicia), Senra was proposed as its head of list in the candidacy of the Plural Left by the leader of Anova, Xosé Manuel Beiras, and endorsed mostly by the militants.[6][7] Senra was in fifth place in the candidature,[8] being one of the six elected MEPs. After the constitution of the chamber, she joined the Confederal Group of the European United Left–Nordic Green Left (GUE-NGL), and was part of the Committee on Agriculture and Rural Development. On 4 March 2017, Lidia Senra left the Confederal Group of the GUE-NGL.[9]
References
edit- ^ a b Carreira, Xoán Carlos (27 November 2007). "Lidia Senra, o rural galego e os novos camiños" [Lidia Senra, the Rural Galician and the New Ways]. Vieiros (in Galician). Retrieved 23 July 2018.
- ^ Insua, Lucía R. (4 October 2007). "Lidia Senra deja 18 años de sindicalismo" [Lidia Senra Leaves Behind 18 Years of Unionism]. La Voz de Galicia (in Spanish). Retrieved 23 July 2018.
- ^ Beramendi, Mario (20 February 2010). "El Sindicato Labrego expulsa a tres fundadores de la organización agraria afín a la UPG" [The Sindicato Labrego Expels Three Founders of the Agrarian Organization Related to the UPG]. La Voz de Galicia (in Spanish). Retrieved 23 July 2018.
- ^ "Las diferencias en el BNG se traducen en cuatro candidaturas al Consello Nacional" [The Differences in the BNG Translate into Four Candidatures to the National Council]. Faro de Vigo (in Spanish). 6 May 2009. Retrieved 23 July 2018.
- ^ "La sindicalista agraria Lidia Senra deja su militancia en el BNG" [The Agrarian Unionist Lidia Senra Leaves Her Militancy at the BNG] (in Spanish). Santiago de Compostela. Europa Press. 11 February 2012. Retrieved 23 July 2018.
- ^ "Anova elige a Senra candidata a las europeas con el 85% de los votos" [Anova Chooses Senra Candidate for the European Elections with 85% of the Votes]. El País (in Spanish). 30 March 2014. Retrieved 23 July 2018.
- ^ "Lidia Senra será la candidata de Anova que ocupe el quinto puesto de la lista con IU a las europeas" [Lidia Senra Will Be Anova's Candidate That Occupies the Fifth Position of the List with IU to the European Parliament] (in Spanish). Santiago de Compostela. Europa Press. 30 March 2014. Retrieved 23 July 2018.
- ^ "Acuerdo de 28 de abril de 2014, de la Junta Electoral Central, de proclamación de candidaturas a las elecciones de Diputados al Parlamento Europeo" [Agreement of 28 April 2014, of the Central Electoral Board, of Proclamation of Candidacies for the Elections of Deputies to the European Parliament]. Boletín Oficial del Estado (in Spanish). 29 April 2014. Retrieved 23 July 2018.
- ^ "Propuestas de funcionamiento de la delegación de Izquierda Unida en el Parlamento Europeo, aprobadas en la Coordinadora Federal del 4 de marzo de 2017" [Proposals for the Operation of the United Left Delegation in the European Parliament Approved by the Federal Coordinator on 4 March 2017] (PDF) (in Spanish). United Left. Retrieved 23 July 2018.