Inés Sabanés
{{short description|Spanish politician}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=February 2019}}
{{Infobox officeholder
| name = Inés Sabanés
| image = (Inés Sabanés) Candidatura de Ahora Madrid - Inés Sabanés 01 (cropped).jpg
| office = Member of the Congress of Deputies
| term_start = 3 December 2019
| constituency = Madrid
| office2 = Madrid municipal councillor
| term_start2 = 13 June 2015
| term_end2 = 20 December 2019
| office3 = Member of the Assembly of Madrid
| term_start3 = 12 June 2007
| term_end3 = 29 March 2011
| office4 = Madrid municipal councillor
| term_start4 = June 1999
| term_end4 = June 2007
| office5 = Member of the Congress of Deputies
| term_start5 = 25 March 1996
| term_end5 = 3 September 1999
| constituency5 = Madrid
| birth_date = 24 June 1953
| birth_place = Cubells, Catalonia, Spain
| citizenship = Spanish
| occupation = Politician, civil servant, handballer
| party = PASOC {{Small|(1982–2001)}}
IU {{Small|(1986–2011)}}
Equo {{Small|(since 2011)}}
| term_end = 17 August 2023
}}
Inés Sabanés Nadal (born 1953) is a Spanish eco-socialist politician.{{Citation needed|date=May 2021}} She served as Madrid's Councillor for the Environment and Mobility from 2015 to 2019.
Biography
Born on 24 June 1953 in Cubells, province of Lleida. She moved to Madrid to study at the National Institute for Physical Education (now part of the Technical University of Madrid). She played for the Women's Handball section of Atlético Madrid,{{Cite web|publisher=Europa Press|url=https://www.europapress.es/madrid/noticia-27-perfiles-ines-sabanes-debuta-comunidad-intencion-ser-clave-futuro-gobierno-progresista-20070512113416.html|title=27-M.-Perfiles. Inés Sabanés debuta en la Comunidad con la intención de ser clave en un futuro Gobierno progresista|date=12 May 2007}} as well as for the handball national team.{{Cite journal|journal=El País|url=https://elpais.com/diario/1999/06/09/madrid/928927472_850215.html|date=9 June 1999|title=El alcalde de Madrid tiene un talante claramente misógino}}
Sabanés, who had become a member of the Unión General de Trabajadores (UGT) and the Socialist Action Party (PASOC) in 1982, was a founding member of the United Left in 1986. A resident in Vallecas, she became a civil servant of the Madrid City Council in 1986, and she worked in the Municipal Sports Institute until 1996.{{Cite journal|journal=El Mundo|url=https://www.elmundo.es/elmundo/2011/06/29/madrid/1309361772.html|date=29 June 2011|first=María|last=Martín|title=Inés Sabanés recupera su plaza en el Ayuntamiento de Madrid}}
She ran sixth in the IU list in Madrid for the 1996 general election{{Smallcaps|Juntas Electorales Provinciales}}: {{Cite journal|date=6 February 1996|title=Candidaturas proclamadas para las elecciones al Congreso de los Diputados y al Senado, convocadas por Real Decreto 1/1996, de 8 de enero|page=4006|issue=32|url=http://www.juntaelectoralcentral.es/cs/jec/documentos/GENERALES_1996_Candidaturas.pdf|issn=0212-033X|journal=Boletín Oficial del Estado}} and became a member of the Spanish lower house, in what it was her first elected office.{{Cite journal|journal=Público|url=https://www.publico.es/espana/equo-elige-ines-sabanes-dirigir.html|title=Equo elige a Inés Sabanés para dirigir su campaña|first=Juanma|last=Romero|date=5 September 2011}} She left her seat in September 1999,{{Cite web|url=http://www.congreso.es/portal/page/portal/Congreso/Congreso/Diputados/BusqForm?_piref73_1333155_73_1333154_1333154.next_page=/wc/fichaDiputado?idDiputado=308&idLegislatura=6|publisher=Congress of Deputies|title=VI Legislatura (1996–2000). Sabanés Nadal, Inés}} as she had successfully ran as candidate in the 1999 municipal election in Madrid and had become city councillor. Following the decision of the PASOC party to unlink from the IU federation in 2001, Sabanés and fellow PASOC colleague Franco González decided to remain in IU.{{Cite journal|url=https://elpais.com/diario/2001/07/11/madrid/994850662_850215.html|journal=El País|date=11 July 2001|title=Inés Sabanés y Franco González crean la Corriente Socialista en IU-Madrid|first=Rodolfo|last=Serrano}} She renovated her seat as city councillor following the 2003 municipal election for the 2003–2007 term.{{Cite web|url=https://www.asambleamadrid.es/ES/QueEsLaAsamblea/ComposiciondelaAsamblea/Distribuciondeescanos/Paginas/curriculum.aspx?IdDip=220|publisher=Assembly of Madrid|title=Inés Sabanés Nadal}}
She led the IU list for the 2007 Madrilenian regional election,{{Smallcaps|Junta Electoral Provincial de Madrid}}: {{Cite journal|date=1 May 2007|issue=102|page=93|url=http://www.juntaelectoralcentral.es/cs/jec/documentos/MADRID_2007_Candidaturas.pdf|journal=Boletín Oficial de la Comunidad de Madrid|title=Elecciones a la Asamblea de Madrid 2007. Candidaturas proclamadas}} becoming a member of the 8th term of the regional legislature, as well as the Spokesperson of the parliamentary group. She was removed from the later post in December 2009 and was replaced by Gregorio Gordo.{{Cite journal|first=Juanma|last=Romero|url=https://www.publico.es/actualidad/iu-desaloja-sabanes-portavocia-asamblea.html|journal=Público|title=IU desaloja a Sabanés de la portavocía en la Asamblea de Madrid|date=18 December 2009}} Gradually distanced from the IU board,{{Cite journal|journal=Público|url=https://www.publico.es/espana/sabanes-deja-iu-irse-equo.html|title=Sabanés deja IU para irse a Equo|first=Juanma|last=Romero|date=15 June 2011}} Sabanés left IU and joined Equo in June 2011.{{Cite journal|url=https://elpais.com/diario/2011/06/16/madrid/1308223455_850215.html|journal=El País|date=16 June 2011|first2=Pilar|last2=Álvarez|title=Inés Sabanés abandona IU y se une al proyecto Equo|first=Jesús Sérvulo|last=González}} She also returned to her post as civil servant in the city council.
She ran third in the Ahora Madrid list for the 2015 Madrid municipal election. Sabanés became city councillor for another spell and, as member of the municipal government board presided by Manuela Carmena, she has served as councillor of Environment and Mobility of the corporation during the 2015–2019 term, in which she promoted Madrid Central, a plan for a new range of inner-city traffic restrictions{{Cite journal|url=https://www.elperiodico.com/es/medio-ambiente/20181130/ines-sabanes-con-sus-criticas-a-madrid-central-el-pp-retrocede-a-los-anos-80-7176443|journal=El Periódico|title=Inés Sabanés: "Con sus críticas a Madrid Central el PP retrocede a los años 80"|date=30 November 2018|first=Manuel|last=Vilaseró}}{{Cite web|url=https://www.eveningexpress.co.uk/motoring/madrid-introduces-traffic-restrictions-for-older-petrol-and-diesel-cars/|work=Evening Express|title=Madrid introduces traffic restrictions for older petrol and diesel cars|date=30 November 2018}} as well as the "re-naturalization" of the Manzanares river, opening the locks impounding the stream along its watercourse.{{Cite journal|url=https://elpais.com/ccaa/2018/08/10/madrid/1533912530_771887.html|journal=El País|date=10 August 2018|title=Regeneración exprés en el Manzanares|first=Carmen|last=Pérez-Lanzac}}
Standing up for reelection at the May 2019 Madrid municipal election under the Más Madrid banner, she renovated her seat as municipal councillor, switching to the opposition following the investiture of PP's José Luis Martínez-Almeida as new mayor in June 2019.
Sabanés ran 3rd in the list of the Más País–Equo list in Madrid for the Congress of Deputies led by Íñigo Errejón vis-à-vis the November 2019 Spanish general election. The coalition only earned 2 MPs at the election, but, following the renouncement of Marta Higueras (number 2) to assume office,{{Cite web|url=https://www.eldiario.es/politica/Marta-Higueras-Pais-Congreso-Sabanes_0_965554228.html|date=20 November 2019|title=Marta Higueras renuncia a su escaño por Más País en el Congreso de los Diputados y el cargo lo ocupará Inés Sabanés|website=eldiario.es|first=Fátima|last=Caballero}} Sabanés did so,{{Cite web|url=http://www.congreso.es/portal/page/portal/Congreso/Congreso/Diputados/BusqForm?_piref73_1333155_73_1333154_1333154.next_page=/wc/fichaDiputado?idDiputado=234&idLegislatura=14|publisher=Congress of Deputies|title=XIV Legislatura (2019-Actualidad) Sabanés Nadal, Inés}} becoming a legislator since the beginning of the legislative term on 3 December 2019. Later in December she left her seat of city councillor. The municipal government of PP and Citizens made the most of the gap until her successor (Mar Barberán) took office, passing the annual budget in a controversial action that spearheaded the absence en bloc of the opposition councillors during the vote as sign of protest.{{Cite web|url=https://www.infolibre.es/noticias/politica/2019/12/23/el_aprovecha_renuncia_sabanes_aun_no_sustituida_para_sacar_presupuesto_madrid_con_abstencion_vox_102258_1012.html|website=InfoLibre|title=El PP aprovecha la renuncia de Sabanés, aún no sustituida, para sacar el Presupuesto de Madrid con la abstención de Vox|date=23 December 2019}}
Equo members elected Sabanés as Federal Co-Spokesperson of the party along Florent Marcellesi in February 2020.{{Cite web|url=https://www.eldiario.es/politica/Ines-Sabanes-Florent-Marcellesi-Equo_0_999500219.html|website=eldiario.es|title=Inés Sabanés y Florent Marcellesi, elegidos nuevos coportavoces de Equo|date=25 February 2020}}
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Category:Madrid city councillors (1999–2003)
Category:Madrid city councillors (2003–2007)
Category:Members of the 8th Assembly of Madrid
Category:Members of the United Left Parliamentary Group (Assembly of Madrid)
Category:Madrid city councillors (2015–2019)
Category:Members of the 6th Congress of Deputies (Spain)
Category:Madrid city councillors (2019–2023)