María Izquierdo Rojo


María Izquierdo Rojo is a Spanish politician of the Spanish Socialist Workers' Party. She was a member of the Spanish Congress of Deputies in 1977–1979, 1979–1982 and 1986–1989, representing Granada. She was a member of the European Parliament from 1989 to 2004.
In 2018 she was one of a group of eleven women honoured by the city of Granada for having enabled the peaceful transition to democracy in the city forty years earlier. A conference was held entitled "Granadinas por la libertad: once figuras femeninas para la democracia española".
Speaking on television in 2018 she said "Me he pasado los cincuenta años primeros años de mi vida discriminada por ser mujer, y los siguientes haGranadinas por la libertad: once figuras femeninas para la democracia española"sta hoy discriminada por ser mayor''".