Pilar González

María Pilar González Modino (born 1962) is a Spanish former politician. As a member of the Andalusian Party (PA), she was a councillor on the City Council of Seville from 2004 to 2005, then a deputy in the Parliament of Andalusia from 2005 to 2008. From 2008 to 2012, she was secretary general of the party, but missed out on election at local and regional level.

After her resignation from PA, González set up Primavera Andaluza, which joined the first Adelante Andalucía. She was elected to the council in Dos Hermanas in 2019, and resigned after being named to the Senate of Spain later that year. She retired after missing out on election to the Congress of Deputies for the second Adelante Andalucía in 2023.

Biography Early life and career González was born in Mérida in Extremadura. and in 1995 she joined the Andalusian Party (PA).

González was the PA candidate for mayor in the 2011 Seville municipal election, and promised to finish the Seville Metro that had been proposed by her party's mayors Luis Uruñuela and Alejandro Rojas-Marcos. She also called for the end of provincial deputations, classing them as "Francoist relics". With 4.78% of the vote, her list took no seats.

González was proclaimed the PA candidate for President of the Regional Government of Andalusia in the 2012 Andalusian regional election. Having won no seats, she resigned.

Return to politics In September 2012, González returned to politics, establishing Primavera Andaluza in Antequera. The self-declared "non-electoral" entity was established "to unite the Andalusian left in defence of the welfare state, Andalusian self-government and an escape from the [economic] crisis".

González told the Diario de Sevilla in February 2018 that "My time [as an elected representative] has already passed. My career in the gladiators' arena is over". Her party won four seats, becoming the second largest group after the PSOE majority of mayor Francisco Toscano.

In November 2019, the AA group in the Parliament of Andalusia named González to the Senate of Spain. She resigned from Dos Hermanas City Council in January 2020. In September 2021, González spoke in the Senate in favour of official recognition of Andalusian Spanish as a separate language.

González was the lead candidate for the second Adelante Andalucía for the Cádiz constituency in the 2023 Spanish general election. Having failed to win a seat, she retired from politics.