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Francina Armengol

Spanish politician

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
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Source revisionSep 4, 2026
Entity authorityQ5412268 ↗
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Francesca Lluc Armengol Socias, known as Francina Armengol Socias (Balearic Catalan: [fɾənˈsinə əɾməŋˈgɔl soˈsi.əs]; born 11 August 1971), is a Spanish politician from the Socialist Party of the Balearic Islands. She currently serves as president of the Congress of Deputies since 2023 and as member of the Congress of Deputies from the Balearic Islands since 2023.

Early life

Armengol was born on 11 August 1971 in Inca, Mallorca. She is the daughter of Juan Armengol, who was the mayor of Inca from 1991 to 1995. By 1991 she had joined the PSOE. She studied pharmacy at the University of Barcelona and then completed a postgraduate degree in dermopharmacy and law studies at the Open University of Catalonia. She was also a member of the Bloc d'Estudiants Independentistes during the time she studied pharmacy.

She first entered politics in 1997, as she was deputy secretary of the PSOE in Mallorca until 1998, and was afterward, from 1998 to 2000, councillor of Inca. She was also a member of the Parliament of the Balearic Islands starting 12 July 1999, a position she has continuously held since then. During her time in parliament, she was a coordinator of the Parity Law and was, from 2007 to 2011, President of the Island Council of Mallorca.

Political career

Armengol served as president of the Balearic Islands between 2015 and 2023, and also the first woman to ever hold the office.

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Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Francina Armengol” is spanish politician. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Francina, Armengol and Spanish, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewStrongest as a route into the people, institutions and dated events that shaped the subject’s public record. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1971, 2023, 1991, 1995—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1971-08-11. For this dossier, Francina, Armengol and Spanish is the immediate research focus.
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This entry incorporates text from “Francina Armengol” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.