Marta Gastón Menal is a Spanish

Spain

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 politician

Politician

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. She is currently a member of the Congress of Deputies for 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).

Gastón graduated in economics

Economics

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, and worked as a business manager for a bank. She was elected to the Senate of Spain for the province of Huesca in the 2004 election, and to the Huesca

Huesca

Huesca is a city in north-eastern Spain, within the autonomous community of Aragon. It is also the capital of the Spanish province of the same name and the comarca of Hoya de Huesca....

 municipal council in the 2007 election

Spanish regional elections, 2007

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. In the 2008 election

Spanish general election, 2008

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, she opted for the Congress of Deputies rather than the Senate and was elected as second on the PSOE list

Party-list proportional representation

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 for Huesca

Huesca (Spanish Congress Electoral District)

Huesca is one of the 52 electoral districts used for the Spanish Congress of Deputies - the lower chamber of the Spanish Parliament, the Cortes Generales. It is one of the three electoral districts which correspond to the provinces of Aragon. Huesca is the largest municipality although it only has...

.