Early Political Career
He joined the Communist Party in 1981. In 1988 he was elected Secretary General and General Coordinator of Izquierda Unida in Asturias. In 1991 he was elected deputy to the regional parliament of Asturias, where he was spokesman for Izquierda Unida's group. In this chamber, IU worked with governments of the Spanish Socialist Workers' Party until 1995.
Llamazares was the General Secretary of the PCE in the autonomous community of Asturias and member of Asturias' Parliament between 1988 and 2000.
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