With a diploma in human nutrition and dietetics from the Autonomous University of Madrid, Sira Rego (Valencia, 1973) focused her training on projects related to sexual and reproductive health. He entered politics on the municipal lists of IU in the Madrid town of Rivas Vaciamadrid, a historic fiefdom of the left where he was deputy mayor since 2007 and responsible for Housing Policies, Environmental Sustainability, Parks and Gardens, Urban Mobility and Transportation and Citizen Security .
A member of the Communist Party of Spain – and also affiliated with the Workers' Commissions – she joined the federal executive of IU in the XI Assembly in 2017, and since then she has been considered one of Alberto Garzón's closest collaborators. The year after joining Garzón's federal executive, Rego was chosen as number one on the IU list for the 2019 European elections, although the formation already anticipated a subsequent agreement with Podemos for the joint electoral list. After the departure of Bustinduy from that candidacy and the incorporation of María Eugenia Rodríguez Palop, Sira Rego was finally number two on the Unidas Podemos Cambiar Europa list, which won six seats in May 2019.
In the European Parliament, Sira Rego is a member of the Industry, Research and Energy Committee, the Petitions Committee, the Delegation to the EU-UK Partnership Parliamentary Assembly and the Delegation for Relations with EU Countries. Central America.
Integrated into the European group of The Left (Confederal Group of the European United Left/Nordic Green Left), she was the candidate of this group to preside over the European Parliament in July 2019. Since then she has served as vice president of the group The Left. Since the Hamas attack on Israel and the outbreak of Tel Aviv's brutal offensive on the Gaza Strip, Rego, who spent part of his childhood in Palestine, has taken a very active role in calling for an immediate ceasefire in Gaza. Israel.
Sira Rego could run in the next IU Assembly to succeed Alberto Garzón as general coordinator, after the work of the Malaga native, who saved the organization from disappearance in the face of the appearance of Podemos.
