Amparo Rubiales

Amparo Rubiales Torrejón (Madrid, 20 October 1945) is a Spanish politician who belongs to the political party PSOE and is ex-counsellor of the Junta de Andalucía.

When she was a young woman, Rubiales was involved in a political activist work against Franco's dictatorship.

That gave Amparo Rubiales Torrejón the opportunity to preside the organ of Pablo de Olavide University as the principal responsible of the Social Council.

[2] The following year, and still working in the Social Council, La Asociación de Mujeres Investigadoras y Tecnólogas awarded Rubiales for her efficient contribution to improve the position and visibility of women in science and technology.

In addition, she was a member of the World Interparliamentary Union and the president of the Parliamentary Friendship Group with Italy, Greece and Argentina.

In July 2012 she was appointed president for the PSOE-A, a position from which she resigned on June 8, 2023, after calling the general coordinator of the Popular Party Elías Bendodo a "Nazi Jew".