Clara Serra

Spanish politician

Clara Serra
In 2016

Member of the Assembly of Madrid
In office 9 June 2015 – 7 October 2019

Personal details
Born	(1982-09-13) 13 September 1982 (age 41) Madrid
Citizenship	Spanish
Political party	Podemos
Occupation	Politician, high school teacher, essayist, philosopher
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Clara Irma Serra Sánchez (born 1982) is a Spanish politician and feminist author. She was a member of the Assembly of Madrid between 2015 and 2019, during the 10th and 11th terms of the regional legislature.

Biography

Born on 13 September 1982 in Madrid.^[1]^[2] Her father, Fernando Serra, is a former leftist turned into a liberal and writer for Libertad Digital.^[3]^[4] She graduated in Philosophy at the Complutense University of Madrid (UCM).^[5] She worked as highschool philosophy teacher for six years.^[6] She entered politics with the creation of Podemos.^[5]

She ran as candidate of the Podemos list for the 2015 Madrilenian regional election, and became a member of the 10th term of the regional legislature. Her younger sister, Isabel, also became a member of the Assembly in the Podemos parliamentary group.^[7]

After the resignation of Lorena Ruiz-Huerta as Spokeswoman of the Podemos parliamentary group in the Assembly, Serra was elected within the members of the parliamentary group to replace Ruiz-Huerta.^[8]

Serra ran 2nd in the Más Madrid list for the May 2019 Madrilenian regional election, and renovated her seat at the regional legislature. Following the September 2019 presentation of the nation-wide Más País project for the 10 November 2019 general election, she communicated her renouncement to her seat in the Assembly of Madrid on 7 October 2019 in disagreement with the way the platform was working, in addition to Más País intending to run against En Comú Podem in Barcelona, which Serra was opposed to.^[9]

Works

— (2018). Leonas y zorras. Estrategias políticas feministas. Catarata.^[2]
— (2019). Manual ultravioleta. Feminismo para mirar el mundo. Ediciones B.^[10]

References

^ "Clara Irma Serra Sánchez". Assembly of Madrid.
^ ^a ^b Riaño, Peio H. (26 April 2018). "Clara Serra: "Es una sentencia machista y vergonzosa. Las mujeres estamos solas"". El Español.
^ Ramírez, Daniel (9 November 2016). "Serra contra Serra: dos hermanas enfrentadas por Iglesias y Errejón". El Español.
^ Landaluce, Emilia (10 September 2016). "¿Asistirá Rivera a la boda de Luis Garicano este fin de semana?". El Mundo.
^ ^a ^b Rodríguez Álvarez, Sabela (29 April 2018). "Clara Serra: "Es imprescindible que el feminismo no pida siempre las cosas por favor"". Infolibre.
^ García, Javier (29 November 2018). "Clara Serra (Podemos): "El feminismo tiene que plantar cara a PP y Cs"". 20minutos.es.
^ López Macías, Javier (9 October 2018). "Clara Serra, el 'errejonismo' tiene nombre de mujer". Madridiario.
^ "Podemos propone a Clara Serra como nueva portavoz en la Asamblea". La Vanguardia. 8 October 2018.
^ Caballero, Fátima (11 October 2019). "Íñigo Errejón y Clara Serra: historia de un desencuentro que duró dos años". eldiario.es.
^ "Artesfera – Manual Ultravioleta, segundo libro de Clara Serra". RTVE. 31 January 2019.