Maria Antonia de Armengol Criado (Paris

Paris

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, France

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, 22 September 1950) is a Spanish politician who belongs to the Spanish Socialist Workers' Party

Spanish Socialist Workers' Party

The Spanish Socialist Workers' Party is a social-democratic political party in Spain. Its political position is Centre-left. The PSOE is the former ruling party of Spain, until beaten in the elections of November 2011 and the second oldest, exceeded only by the Partido Carlista, founded in...

 (PSOE).

Married, Armengol qualified as a lawyer and entered politics in 1983 when she was elected as a PSOE deputy to the Cortes Valencianas, the Valencian regional parliament, serving until 2003.

In 2004 she was elected to the Congress of Deputies as a deputy for Valencia region

Valencia (Spanish Congress Electoral District)

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but did not stand at the 2008 election. She also served as a member of the federal committee of the PSOE and was a member of Greenpeace.