The congresswoman who loved her motorcycle more than her life

ValenciaThe cliché goes that summers are a time to forget about the clock and stretch out the evenings until the sun sets. To beat the heat, you have to dive into rivers or pools, and for getting around, if you're a teenager, nothing beats a motorbike. This idyllic memory of youth is held by Compromís MP Àgueda Micó (L'Olleria, 1978), who made headlines this week after announcing that she will leave the Sumar parliamentary group and join the mixed coalition.

In those summers, Micó traveled around on her Derbi Variante. It wasn't the most coveted motorcycle, but it gave her the freedom she needed, and for that, she loved it more than life. Over the years, the Més leader swapped two wheels for a car, but never left the village. Coming from a humble family, with a father who worked in a glass factory cooperative and a mother who worked in a wicker workshop, she was the first to join a party. She chose the Valencian Nationalist Bloc (currently Más) and for 12 years—from 2003 to 2015—held the Ministry of Culture, Heritage, and Tourism.

Her stay in L'Olleria also has its tolls. One of them is all the hours she must spend driving. However, she makes the most of her time and often meets with journalists to assist them while she makes the journey there or back.

To try to disconnect, she relies on music. As a young woman, she learned to play the tenor saxophone in the band and practices from time to time. She also has access to cinema. She is an activist for the original version and finds dubbing "heresy." For movies, she always has an eighties romantic comedy or a tear-jerker period drama on hand. A reader of political essays, she considers Joan Fuster one of her references and is a fan of Ken Follett.

As a child, she discovered nature through scouts and still maintains her love of going to the mountains. However, during the pandemic, she became hooked on more fashionable practices such as mountain routines. influencer Patri Jordán. Feminist, she denounces the difficulties women face in politics.