Gregorio Gordo


Gregorio "Goyo" Gordo Pradel is a Spanish politician and trade unionist. A member of the Assembly of Madrid from 2007 to 2007, 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 in 1976.
Gordo, who dropped off from 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 in the United Left of the Community of Madrid 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 IU–CM in March 2015, after his election among the members of the IU–CM political council. The post had been vacant for a while following the resignation of Fernando Marín in 2008.
He ran first in the United Left–The Greens list for the 2011 Madrilenian regional election, renovating his seat in the regional legislature for its 9th term.
In February 2015, following the credit card misuse scandal of Bankia successor to the Madrid Savings Bank Caja Madrid and the direct implication of the bank's vicechairman and several other forma boardmembers elected on behalf of IU, the national leadership accused the regional leadership of lack of action regarding the activities of its members of the bank, asking for Gordo's resignation. This led to his precautionary suspension of membership in the PCE, and his final expulsion from IU on the basis of a "serious misconduct", following his refusal to rennounce to his posts in the organization after repeated requirements by the IU Federal Council.
In January 2018, informal meetings between Gordo and José Manuel Franco, Secretary-General of the Spanish Socialist Workers' Party of the Community of Madrid were reported.