The Most Excellent
Pilar Llop
Minister of Justice
First Notary of the Kingdom
In office
12 July 2021 – 21 November 2023
Prime MinisterPedro Sánchez
Preceded byJuan Carlos Campo
Succeeded byFélix Bolaños
61st President of the Senate
In office
3 December 2019 – 8 July 2021
MonarchFelipe VI
Vice PresidentCristina Narbona
Pío García-Escudero
Preceded byManuel Cruz Rodríguez
Succeeded byAnder Gil
Member of the Senate
In office
11 July 2019 – 8 July 2021
ConstituencyAssembly of Madrid
Government Delegate for Gender Violence
In office
24 July 2018 – 13 April 2019
Preceded byMaría José Ordóñez
Succeeded byRebeca Palomo
Member of the Assembly of Madrid
In office
11 June 2019 – 12 July 2021
In office
9 June 2015 – 13 July 2018
Personal details
Born (1973-08-03) 3 August 1973 (age 50)
Madrid, Spain
CitizenshipSpanish
OccupationJudge, politician, consultant

María Pilar Llop Cuenca (born 3 August 1973) is a Spanish judge and politician who served as the minister of Justice of Spain and ex officio First Notary of the Kingdom from 2021 to 2023. Previously, she served as the 61st president of the Senate of Spain. She has been Spanish Senator designated by the Assembly of Madrid, an assembly of which she has been part since June 2019. Previously, she was member of the Assembly of Madrid from 2015 to 2018 and Government Delegate for Gender Violence of the Government of Spain from 2018 to 2019.

Early life and education

Born on 3 August 1973 in Madrid to a humble family; her father was a taxi-driver and her mother a hairdresser.[1][2][3] She graduated with a degree in law at the Complutense University of Madrid.[4] She also obtained a master's degree in judicial translation in the University of Alicante.[2]

Career

Llop entered the judiciary in 1999 and became a magistrate in 2004.[5]

Llop ran in the Spanish Socialist Worker's Party (PSOE) list for the 2015 Madrilenian regional election led by Ángel Gabilondo and became a member of the 10th term of the regional legislature. She formalised the renouncement of her seat in the Assembly of Madrid on 13 July 2018,[6] as she had been appointed by the Council of Ministers presided over by Pedro Sánchez as the new Government Delegate for Gender Violence. She was sworn into office on 24 July 2018.[7]

During her time in office, Llop led efforts on reforming Spain’s insolvency law to simplify bankruptcy proceedings and meet a major condition agreed with the European Commission to obtain European Union recovery funds.[8]

References

  1. ^ Hernández, Nuria (2 December 2019). "Así es Pilar Llop, la próxima presidenta del Senado: jueza políglota, feminista y madre de una hija". Vanity Fair.
  2. ^ a b Álvarez, Pilar (27 December 2018). "En una sociedad democrática no cabe la prostitución". El País.
  3. ^ "Pilar Llop: "Estoy en política para que la igualdad entre hombres y mujeres sea una realidad"". Confilegal. 6 July 2015.
  4. ^ Álvarez, Pilar (13 July 2018). "Pilar Llop, nueva delegada del Gobierno para la Violencia de Género". El País.
  5. ^ "La delegada del Gobierno en violencia machista explicará en el Congreso cómo identificar las conductas de acoso". Europa Press. 12 November 2018.
  6. ^ "Altas y bajas de diputados en la X legislatura" (PDF). Assembly of Madrid. Archived from the original (PDF) on 4 February 2019. Retrieved 4 February 2019.
  7. ^ "Martes, 24 de julio de 2018 (7.00 GMT)". El Confidencial. 24 July 2018.
  8. ^ Belén Carreño (21 December 2021), Spain streamlines bankruptcy process to get EU recovery funds Reuters.
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