Leire Pajín

Leire Pajín Iraola (born September 16, 1976) is a Spanish socialist politician. She served as a minister under José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero.^[1]

She was born in San Sebastián but moved with her parents to Benidorm when she was a child. She graduated at the University of Alicante with a Sociology degree in 1998.

In 2000 and 2004 Pajín was elected to the Congress of Deputies representing Alicante.

Although she had no professional experience outside her political party, she was chosen to serve as the Secretary of State for International Cooperation from 2004 to 2008 in the first Zapatero government. After serving as Minister of Health in 2010/11 she remained deputy for Alicante.

July fourth of 2012 she announced that temporarily she quit politics and consequently her seat in the Chamber of Deputies to pursue work in the Pan American Health Organization(PAHO )

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