Aina Rado

Aina Sebastiana Rado i Ferrando was a Spanish Socialist Workers' Party politician who served as a deputy in the Parliament of the Balearic Islands for Mallorca (Parliament of the [Balearic Islands constituency)|Mallorca] from 2004 until 2011, as well as their president from 2010 until 2011. Prior to her election, she was a councillor on the from 1999 until 2006 and secretary-general of the from 1987 until 1995.

Biography

Aina Sebastiana Rado i Ferrando was born on 9 August 1947 in Santanyí, and she worked as a teacher outside of politics. A former member of the Communist Party of Spain, she later moved to the , becoming their secretary-general from 1987 until 1995 and later the secretary of social action for their state-level branch.
Rado was a councillor on the , as well as general director for minors of the . She joined the Spanish Socialist Workers' Party in 1998, and was secretary of equality of the party's Mallorca federation between 2000 and 2004.
Rado succeeded as a deputy of the Parliament of the Balearic Islands for Mallorca on 21 September 2004. She was re-elected to the same constituency in the 2007 election, and she served until 7 June 2011. she also became vice-president of that parliament. She became president of the Parliament on 9 March 2010, replacing, and she stood down from the vice-presidency; she was the second woman elected to the position, after Munar herself.
Rado died on 25 April 2017, aged 70.