Francina Armengol
Francesca Lluc Armengol Socias, known as Francina Armengol Socias, 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.
Early life
Armengol was born on 11 August 1971 in Inca, Mallorca. She is the daughter of Juan Armengol, who was the mayor of Inca from 1991 to 1995. By 1991 she had joined the PSOE. She studied pharmacy at the University of Barcelona and then completed a postgraduate degree in dermopharmacy and law studies at the Open University of Catalonia. She was also a member of the Bloc d'Estudiants Independentistes during the time she studied pharmacy.She first entered politics in 1997, as she was deputy secretary of the PSOE in Mallorca until 1998, and was afterward, from 1998 to 2000, councillor of Inca. She was also a member of the Parliament of the Balearic Islands starting 12 July 1999, a position she has continuously held since then. During her time in parliament, she was a coordinator of the Parity Law and was, from 2007 to 2011, President of the Island Council of Mallorca.
Political career
Armengol served as president of the Balearic Islands between 2015 and 2023, and also the first woman to ever hold the office. 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.In the 2023 Spanish general election Armengol was elected to the 15th Congress of Deputies representing the Balearic Islands. In August 2023, the Socialists had Armengol appointed speaker or president of the Congress of Deputies with support from Catalan pro-independence parties.