Maribel Flores (politician)

Flores was born in Tudela in Navarre in 1950, and grew up in Córdoba in Andalusia. She was a teacher and a member of the Unión General de Trabajadores.^[1]

Flores held roles in the executive of the Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE) at provincial and regional level. She was a deputy in the Parliament of Andalusia from 1990 to 2004, and a member of the Senate of Spain from 1996 to 2015. From 1996 to 2004, she was a senator designated by the regional parliament, and from 2004 she was elected by the Córdoba constituency.^[1]

In September 2015, Flores announced that she would not run in the general election and that she was retiring from frontline politics.^[2] In December 2021, at the congress of the Córdoba branch of the PSOE in Baena, she resigned as president of the provincial organisation.^[3]

Flores died in Córdoba on 2 April 2026.^[4]

• Maribel Flores at Senate of Spain