Sumar has announced this Tuesday the incorporation of the philosopher and writer Elizabeth Duval as its spokesperson on feminism, equality and LGTBI rights and freedoms.
According to reports from the party led by Vice President Yolanda Díaz, the writer is an “intellectual benchmark” in the country that will promote, from Sumar, an “open, dialogue and inclusive feminism” to expand rights and advance in the construction of a Free, diverse and proud Spain”.
During his literary and intellectual career, Duval has published essays such as Después de lo trans o Melancolía. In the case of this last book, Díaz herself participated together with the writer in her presentation that took place in Madrid on April 13.
In this way, Duval joins the list of incorporations of Sumar to his campaign team, such as the case of the Secretary of Social Rights, Nacho Álvarez (Economy), the leader of Podemos Alejandra Jacinto (Vivienta), the MEP Maria Eugenia Rodríguez Palop (campaign coordinator), and her colleague in Brussels Ernest Urtasun, who is the spokesperson for the candidacy team.
Born in Alcalá de Henares, Duval has a degree in Philosophy from the Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbona and French Philology from the Sorbona Nueva University, as well as Secretary of Equality of the Union of Journalists of Madrid.
In turn, Duval attended the official launch of the candidacy for the Presidency of the Díaz Government, which took place on April 2 in a massive event at the Antonio Magariños sports center in Madrid. He has also attended other events related to Díaz and his political project.
In the presentation of her work ‘Melancolía’, the writer defended the need to recover something as important as “hope” in politics, to make it ugly that the life of the parties is marked by the “short-termism” of electoral cycles every four years.
