Carolina Bescansa
Carolina Bescansa is a Spanish politician and political scientist who co-founded the political party Podemos. She was a representative for Madrid in the Spanish Congress of Deputies from 2016 to 2019. Academic workBescansa is from Santiago de Compostela.[1] She studied Sociology and Political Science in Grenada and Madrid, focusing specifically on political sociology and the study of constitutional law.[1][2] After graduating in 1994, she did a specialist degree in constitutional law at the Centre for Political and Constitutional Studies.[3] She then became a doctoral student at the Complutense University of Madrid, and in the 1999–2000 school year she participated in an Education Abroad Program at the University of California, San Diego.[3] In 1995, she began to teach political science classes at the Complutense University of Madrid, where she became a member of the political science faculty specializing in the methodology of political science research.[3] Political careerBescansa was a co-founder of the political party Podemos, officially registering it as a political party on 11 March 2014 together with Pablo Iglesias Turrión and Juan Carlos Monedero.[1] In 2014, Bescansa was not on the party list of Podemos, but that year she was elected to the Citizens' Council of the party with about 85% of the votes.[4] This made her the most powerful woman and one of the three most powerful people in the party organization.[5] Bescansa also used her expertise as a political science methodologist in her partisan work, heading the party's political analysis unit and analysing its surveys.[5] In the 2015 Spanish general election, Bescansa was ranked second on the Podemos party list to the Congress of Deputies for the Madrid constituency, and she won the seat.[6] She launched a candidacy for President of the Congress of Deputies, but lost the race to Patxi López.[7] In 2017, Bescansa publicly split with the leadership of Podemos, and left her positions within the party.[8] She was subsequently affiliated with a coalition of Más País and Equo.[8] References
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