Maria Isabel Pozueta Fernández (born 21 September 1965) is a
Basque sexologist, activist, politician and a member of the
Congress of Deputies of
Spain.
Pozueta is an expert in sexology and
co-education. Between 1994 and 2006 she taught
sex education at the Center for Women's Care in
Etxarri-Aranatz, teaching individuals and groups and training professionals.[3][4] Later she taught at various education centres in
Gipuzkoa and Navarre.[3][4] She has also worked for the municipal youth service in
Vitoria-Gasteiz and was director of Biok Tú y Yo, a
couples therapy centre in
Burlata.[3]
At the
1999 regional election Pozueta was placed 31st on
Euskal Herritarrok's
list of candidates in Navarre but the alliance only won eight seats in the region and as a result she failed to get elected.[5] At the
2003 local elections in
Altsasu she was placed 11th on the Altsasuko Indarra (AI) electoral alliance's list of the candidates but the
Supreme Court annulled the list as it considered AI to be a successor to
Batasuna which had been banned in March 2003.[6] She was one of the founders of the Altsasu branch of the
Gure Esku Dago which campaigns for
self-determination for the Basque Country.[7]
Pozueta came to national prominences as the mother of Adur Ramirez de Alda Pozueta, one of eight youths imprisoned for the
Altsasu incident in 2016.[8][9] She was the spokesperson for the Altsasu Gurasoak group which represented the mothers of the prisoners.[10][11] She resigned as spokesperson in March 2019, though she remained a member, in order to contest the general election as the group had stated that it would not support any candidate.[12][13][14]