María Luisa Carcedo
María Luisa Carcedo | |
|---|---|
| Minister of Health, Consumer Affairs and Social Welfare of Spain | |
| In office 12 September 2018 – 13 January 2020 | |
| Monarch | Felipe VI |
| Prime Minister | Pedro Sánchez |
| Preceded by | Carmen Montón |
| Succeeded by | Salvador Illa (Health) Pablo Iglesias Turrión (Social Welfare) Alberto Garzón (Consumer Affairs) |
| High Commissioner for the Fight against Child Poverty | |
| In office 21 June 2018 – 12 September 2018 | |
| Monarch | Felipe VI |
| Prime Minister | Pedro Sánchez |
| Preceded by | Office established |
| Succeeded by | Pau Vicent Marí Klose |
| Member of Congress of Deputies | |
| Assumed office 21 May 2019 | |
| Constituency | Asturias |
| In office 2 April 2004 – 25 September 2015 | |
| Constituency | Asturias |
| Member of the Senate | |
| In office 25 September 2015 – 20 June 2018 | |
| Constituency | Asturias |
| Member of the General Junta of the Principality of Asturias | |
| In office 28 May 1991 – 2 April 2004 | |
| Constituency | Central Asturias |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 30 August 1953 Santa Bárbara, Asturias, Spain |
| Political party | Spanish Socialist Workers' Party |
| Alma mater | University of Oviedo |
María Luisa Carcedo Roces (born 30 August 1953) is a Spanish doctor, politician and former senator who belongs to the Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE). From 2018 to 2020, she served as minister of Health, Consumer Affairs and Social Welfare after the resignation of Carmen Montón. Previously, she also served as the first High Commissioner for the Fight against Child Poverty from June to September 2018, a position within the Office of the Prime Minister.
In 2004, Carcedo was elected for the first time to represent Asturias in the Congress of Deputies. She was re-elected two more times, in 2008 and 2011. In 2015, she ran for a seat at the Senate, a seat that she got. She resigned from the Senate in 2018 when she was appointed High Commissioner and was elected again for Congress in 2019.