Ahora Madrid
Which party was Inés Sabanés a member of from 2015 to 2016?
Inés Sabanés Inés Sabanés Nadal ( born 1953 ) is a Spanish eco-socialist politician . She served as Madrids 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 Womens Handball section of Atlético Madrid , as well as for the handball national team . 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 . She ran sixth in the IU list in Madrid for the 1996 general election and became a member of the Spanish lower house , in what it was her first elected office . She left her seat in September 1999 , 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 . She renovated her seat as city councillor following the 2003 municipal election for the 2003–2007 term . She led the IU list for the 2007 Madrilenian regional election , 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 . Gradually distanced from the IU board , Sabanés left IU and joined Equo in June 2011 . 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 as well as the re-naturalization of the Manzanares river , opening the locks impounding the stream along its watercourse . 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 PPs 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 , Sabanés did so , 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 . Equo members elected Sabanés as Federal Co-Spokesperson of the party along Florent Marcellesi in February 2020 .