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Amanda Meyer is Irene Montero's left hand '. His chief of staff in the Ministry of Equality, the woman who heads the team of "[nine] wonderful aunts ... and [three] uncles" who are part of the team of Feministra Irene Montero. Of course, surprisingly it is the most discreet of all. Meyer held the cake to Pablo Iglesias' partner in the famous surprise video for his 32nd birthday, but he was the one who least talked to the camera. She barely joked about how badly she cut the cake - "I could do this," she laughed - and she kept a low profile throughout the entire short film compared to her much more chatty companions.

However, this 43-year-old Sanluqueña is the one who is most familiar with this of making friends in the game in front of the public. Since she was a child, she has accompanied her parents to meetings of Izquierda Unida, since she is the daughter of well-known party leaders Willy Meyer and Julia Hidalgo . Politics runs through his veins, ergo feminism, mythomania by figures such as Pasionaria, Constancia de la Mora and blah, blah, blah.

Personally, Meyer is "mother of dragons" (we understand daughters) according to her Twitter profile and has had a relationship for years with another important red male : Toni Valero, three years younger than her , named coordinator of Izquierda Unida last year in Andalusia to replace Antonio Maíllo. Valero is a professor of History at the University of Malaga and shares with Amanda the ownership of a 120 square meter apartment in Malaga.

Julia Hidalgo (center), Amanda's mother, in her native Sanlúcar. HUMMOCK

Career

Since graduating in Law from the University of Granada in 2000, Meyer has never been unemployed. Later, he says on Linked-in, he went to Madrid, took out the certificate of pedagogical aptitude (CAP) to be able to teach in secondary school and then did a Master in International Criminal Law. She was even a lawyer for the Association 11M Affected by Terrorism for seven years.

She has also worked in a notary and in several law firms as a partner and has been the legal representative of several companies, never neglecting her activism in the leadership of IU and the Communist Party of Spain.

Until reaching Equality, where she has achieved a level 30 as an adviser receiving 83,425 euros a year (more than the minister and President Sánchez), she has held positions in the Andalusian Government while IUgobernó in coalition with the PSOE. She agreed to the first in 2012, when she was appointed general secretary of Housing, Rehabilitation and Architecture at the Ministry of Development and Housing, a position she held until 2015, when Susana Díaz agreed with Ciudadanos. There she starred in her first scandal: she created the well-known blac k scholarship that Íñigo Errejón received from the University of Malaga at a rate of 1,825 euros gross per month. A project titled Housing in Andalusia. Diagnosis, analysis and proposals for public policies .

Controversies

This was not the first mess that she starred in: after her dismissal, IU hired her as an adviser to Miguel Díaz, deputy mayor delegate for Mobility of the Marbella town hall, an appointment that caused a stir in the opposition as a piece of cake .

Willy Meyer, before his resignation from IU, with a republican flag.JAVI MARTÍNEZ

In addition, Meyer was a lawyer until 2010 of the Kinema cooperative , which she founded four years earlier with Rafael Mayoral, deputy of Podemos, activist of the Platform of People Affected by the Mortgage (PAH) and secretary of Relations with Civil Society and Social Movements of the party purple. Kinema was accused of being favored by the party , since she received, among other endowments, almost half a million euros from the award of three service contracts by the Madrid city council when it was in the hands of Manuela Carmena.

Incidentally, this cooperative offers legal services in the municipality of Rivas-Vaciamadrid where Amanda Meyer resides with her family. A very different place from his beloved Sanlúcar, where his mother Julia Hidalgo comes from.

Hidalgo belongs to a rich saga of right-wing winemakers where she always played the role of loose verse. Despite their ideological differences, the former councilor of the Sanluqueño city council was linked to her family's companies as counselor and vice president until her and her brothers decided to sell the Argüeso and Hidalgo-La Gitana wineries, known for their exquisite fragrant wines. , for 18 million euros in 2006.

The Nut

In an interview with Pablo Iglesias in La Tuerka, Julia reviewed her life. She recalled her happy childhood as the daughter of "an intimate , tolerant and coherent Christian Democrat judge" of Ramón Carande . She said that she grew up in the country, where she was educated by a private teacher until she was 10 years old, and she was proud of having fought in the 80s in Andalusia for abortion: "They called me a murderer."

She did not speak of her husband, Willy Meyer. Iglesias did not ask about his resignation in 2014 when it emerged that the pension fund for MEPs in which he was a participant was managed by a sicav in Luxembourg .

In La Tuerka, Julia's little son works with Meyer: Tristán. He and his sister Amanda strengthened their relationship with Podemos in the show's producer, Con Mano Izquierda, which IU commissioned several electoral videos. On that set, and in the corridors of the Complutense, Podemos was conceived.

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