The former president of the Parliament of Andalusia in the XI Legislature and former member of Ciudadanos (CS) for Almería, Marta Bosquet, has been appointed this Wednesday, 11 November, as the new head of the Ombudsman of Andalusia, becoming the first woman to take on this position. Her election took place in the Plenary of the regional chamber thanks to the affirmative votes of the PP-A and Vox deputies, in a session marked by the absence of the opposition groups --PSOE-A, Adelante Andalucía and Por Andalucía--, which did not attend the debate to back the general strike called by the main trade unions.
The election of Marta Bosquet was carried out through a roll-call vote by the parliamentarians and the deposit of the vote in a ballot box, in a process that coincided with two other appointments: the re-election of Rafael Porras as president of the board of directors of the public radio television company of Andalusia, and the election of María Jesús Botella as a member of the board of directors of the public entity at the proposal of PP-A.
In total, Marta Bosquet’s candidacy obtained 66 votes in favor and no votes against, as the president of the Parliament, Ana Mestre, detailed at the end of the scrutiny. In this way, she reached the three-fifths qualified majority required by the regulations to assume the leadership of the office of the Ombudsman of Andalusia.
The president of the Junta of Andalusia and leader of PP-A, Juanma Moreno, had already indicated on 9 October, by means of a message on his social media account on the network 'X', his group’s intention to propose Marta Bosquet as the first woman at the head of the Ombudsman of Andalusia institution, in place of Jesús Maeztu, who had remained acting since September 2024 after the end of his second term.
At the time of her proposal for the position, Marta Bosquet was the chair of the Andalusian Institute of Research and Agrarian and Fisheries Training, Food, and Ecological Production (Ifapa), an agency dependent on the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries, Water and Rural Development. Then, Moreno highlighted her “commitment to dialogue, her track record, her broad legal knowledge and her marked social sensitivity,” qualities that, as he emphasized, “make her an ideal person to defend the interests of the people of Andalusia.”
Professional and political career of Marta Bosquet
Born in Almería in 1969, Bosquet was President of the Parliament of Andalusia during the XI Legislature, between December 2018 and April 2022, following the government agreement reached between Ciudadanos and the PP-A that made the investiture of Juanma Moreno as President of the Junta possible.
She was a regional deputy for Ciudadanos for Almería from 2015 to 2022. She has a Master’s Degree in Administrative Law and Public Service from the School of Legal Sciences and is a Bachelor of Laws from the University of Granada since 1994. In the professional sphere, she has 22 years of experience as an attorney in practice, from April 1995 to 2015. She began in a law firm in Almería and, in 1998, founded her own firm.
Throughout her career as a lawyer, she took on external legal advisory for various companies, mainly in the sectors of property development and construction, agribusiness, and restoration. She has practiced law for both individuals and companies in the civil, criminal, administrative, and insolvency branches. In addition, she taught Criminal Law at the academy of the Centro de Estudios Universitarios de Almería during the years 1999 and 2000.
In the political arena, during the X Legislature of the Parliament of Andalusia she held the Presidency of the Justice Commission; she was a spokesperson in the Commission on Agriculture, Fishing and Rural Development; a spokesperson in the Commission on Equality and Social Policies; a spokesperson in the Investigation Commission of the Grants for Vocational Training and Employment in Andalusia; a spokesperson for the Advisory Commission on Appointments, Relations with the Ombudsman of Andalusia, and Petitions; a spokesperson in the Employment, Enterprise and Trade Commission; a member of the working group on Regional Financing and a member of the Commission on Development and Housing. She has also taken part as a speaker in various specialized courses and conferences.