On Rtve they have a new drama series underway: The Lawyers. It tells the story of four women who contributed to changing Spain in the 1970s. But the project gains more interest when discovering who it intends to talk about: Manuela Carmena, Cristina Almeida, Paca Sauquillo and Lola González, who will be played by Irene Escolar (Tell me who I am), Elisabet Casanovas (The Route), Almudena Pascual (Serve and Protect) and Pausa Usero (Luimelia).
The synopsis is the following: “Madrid, 1969. Lola González, fresh out of the Faculty of Law, is living with excitement a new era in which the end of the dictatorship begins to be glimpsed. When her boyfriend, Enrique, is detained by the police and dies during an interrogation by falling from a seventh floor under strange circumstances, Lola awakens to the reality that surrounds her and reaffirms her convictions.
“On that path to freedom, Lola will meet other young labor lawyers: Cristina, Manuela and Paca. Together with them, she will bravely defend her democratic ideals, always on the side of the most disadvantaged,” promises the project written by Patricia Ferreira, screenwriter and director of films such as I Know Who You Are and The Impatient Alchemist.
These women are the ones who later adopted a media profile. Almeida was a councilor of the Madrid City Council for the Communist Party between 1979 and 1982, and then returned to the forefront of politics in 1989 when she was elected deputy for the United Left. Later, she would repeat in Congress for the PSOE and then move to the Madrid Assembly and the Senate for the same socialist party.
González, after the death of her then partner Enrique Ruano, was linked to leftist movements and survived the murders of the Atocha Lawyers in 1977. Paquita Sauquillo was also active in leftist movements, contributing from her legal training, to later serving as a deputy in the Madrid Assembly, as a senator and saying goodbye to her political career in 2004 after a decade in the European Parliament, always for the PSOE.
And, finally, Manuela Carmena, who was a member of the General Council of the Judiciary, served as mayor of Madrid between 2015-2019 for Ahora Madrid, losing in the following elections against the Popular Party of Martínez-Almeida, which was able to govern with the support of Ciudadanos and VOX.
