Gregorio Gordo
Gregorio "Goyo" Gordo Pradel (19 August 1958 – 20 May 2021) was a Spanish politician and trade unionist. A member of the Assembly of Madrid from 2007 to 2015, he led the United Left of the Community of Madrid from 2009 to 2012. Biography Born on 19 August 1958 in Madrid, he joined the Comisiones Obreras (CC.OO.) in 1976. Gordo, who dropped out from his university studies in Law, worked in a goldsmith workshop from 1976 to 1983. He later became a public officer of the Spanish Tax Agency. He became a member of the Communist Party of Spain in 1983 and also was a founding member of United Left. He was elected in the 1991 municipal election in Getafe and became a city councillor, serving as such until 2003. He ran second on the United Left list for the 2007 Madrilenian regional election led by Inés Sabanés, becoming member of the 8th Assembly of Madrid. He became the new coordinator-general of United Left in March 2015, after his election among the members of their political council (107 positive votes, 7 abstentions). The post had been vacant for a while following the resignation of Fernando Marín in 2008. He ran