José Luis Martínez-Almeida

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José Luis Martínez-Almeida
Martínez-Almeida in August 2019
Mayor of Madrid
Assumed office
15 June 2019
DeputyBegoña Villacís
Inmaculada Sanz
Preceded byManuela Carmena
National spokesperson of the People's Party
In office
20 August 2020 – 22 February 2022
LeaderPablo Casado
Preceded byOffice created
Succeeded byOffice abolished
Personal details
Born
José Luis Martínez-Almeida Navasqüés

(1975-04-17) 17 April 1975 (age 48)
Madrid, Spain
Political partyPeople's Party
Alma materComillas Pontifical University

José Luis Martínez-Almeida Navasqüés (born 17 April 1975) is a Spanish state lawyer and politician. A member of the

Madrid City Council since 2015 and has been Mayor of Madrid
since 2019.

Biography

Martínez-Almeida was born in Madrid on 17 April 1975. His grandfather Pablo Martínez-Almeida y Nacarino was a member of the Privy Council of the Count of Barcelona, he is the youngest of the six children of Rafael Martínez-Almeida y León y Castillo and Ángela Navasqüés Cobián.[1] He studied at the Retamar School in Pozuelo de Alarcón, linked to the Opus Dei.[2] Martínez-Almeida affiliated to the

Licentiate degree in law at the ICADE (Comillas Pontifical University) in 1998.[3] In 2001, he joined the State Lawyers Corps.[4]

He served as Director-General for Historic Heritage of the

SEPI
) as Secretary of the Law Division. He left this post in 2015.

Aguirre included Martínez-Almeida as a principal figure in the candidacy of PP for the

Ignacio González, Martínez-Almeida replaced her as Spokesperson of the PP's Municipal Group in the City Council.[5] His interventions as leader of the opposition made him widely known.[6]

In July 2018, he was appointed member of the National Executive Committee of the PP after the election of Pablo Casado as party leader.[7]

In January 2019, he was designated candidate of the PP to be the next Mayor of Madrid.[8]

In January 2024, he announced his engagement [9] to Teresa Urquijo y Moreno, the great-granddaughter of Infante Alfonso, Duke of Calabria.

Mayor of Madrid

He ran first in the PP list for the

Citizens and Vox, he was invested as Mayor on 15 June 2019, during the opening session of the new municipal corporation.[10]

During the campaign, the PP pledged to get rid of the star measure of the previous municipal administration: the low emission zone Madrid Central.[11] As promised, on July 1,[12] the City Council led by Martínez-Almeida suspended the system for three months by ceasing to fine infractions. Environmental groups such as Greenpeace cut roads in protest.[13] However, a week later a court in Madrid restored the fines.[14] After more than one year of legal dispute, in July 2020, the derogation of the measure was supported by a judicial sentence, but the municipal government maintained the fines.[15]

During the

weasel words] reconstruction plan.[19][20][21][22]

In September 2021, Almeida's government banned the in-person participation of neighbors in the plenary meetings of the district councils.[23]

He tested positive for COVID-19 on 21 December 2021 during the pandemic in Spain.[24]

In April 2022, it came to light that his government was involved in a scandal for awarding several contracts to companies managed by aristocrat Luis Medina Abascal, son of

Nati Abascal and the Duke of Feria; and his partner, Alberto Javier Luceño Cerón, two businessmen who mediated in the purchase of sanitary material with the Madrid City Council in March 2020, during the worst moment of the COVID-19 pandemic in Spain and a few days after the state of alarm was declared,[25] with whom them both took millionaire commissions for various contracts, being investigated by the Anti-Corruption Prosecutor's Office.[26]

References

  1. ^ Piñón, Manu (27 May 2019). "La conexión con la realeza de Martínez-Almeida, el próximo alcalde de Madrid". Vanity Fair (in Spanish). Retrieved 1 October 2019.
  2. Unidad Editorial Información General
    , S.L.U.
  3. ^ a b "José Luis Martínez-Almeida, el valor del escalafón". Telemadrid (in Spanish). 7 May 2019. Retrieved 1 October 2019.
  4. ^ "José Luis Martínez-Almeida, candidato del PP al Ayuntamiento de Madrid". Madridiario (in Spanish). 21 May 2019. Retrieved 1 October 2019.
  5. ^ Belver, Marta (28 April 2017). "José Luis Martínez-Almeida, un abogado del Estado de verbo ágil para sustituir a Esperanza Aguirre". El Mundo (in Spanish). Unidad Editorial. Retrieved 15 June 2019.
  6. ^ Y Redacción, Agencias (27 May 2019). "Martínez-Almeida, un 'colchonero' fan del 'cholismo' en el Palacio de Cibeles". La Vanguardia (in Spanish). Retrieved 27 May 2020.
  7. Europa Press
    . 26 July 2018. Retrieved 15 June 2019.
  8. Vocento
    . Retrieved 15 June 2019.
  9. ^ [1] (in Spanish)
  10. ISSN 1134-6582
    . Retrieved 15 June 2019.
  11. ^ Agencias, El Periódico / (26 March 2019). "Más Madrid apuesta por ampliar Madrid Central y el PP y Vox por eliminarlo". elperiodico (in Spanish). Retrieved 27 July 2019.
  12. ISSN 0362-4331
    . Retrieved 27 July 2019.
  13. ^ Objective, The (July 2019). "Activistas de Greenpeace cortan el acceso al tráfico a Madrid Central". The Objective | Periodismo ethos (in European Spanish). Retrieved 27 July 2019.
  14. ISSN 1134-6582
    . Retrieved 27 July 2019.
  15. ^ Medina, Miguel Ángel (28 July 2020). "La Justicia anula Madrid Central por defectos formales pero las multas continuarán". El País (in Spanish). Retrieved 8 September 2020.
  16. ^ De Vega, Luis/ (18 April 2020). "Más Madrid ofrece a Almeida su "apoyo total" ante la crisis". El País (in Spanish). Retrieved 27 May 2020.
  17. ^ Martin, Anai. "Revolución en Madrid: un sondeo dispara a Ayuso y Almeida por su titánica labor". EsDiario (in European Spanish). Retrieved 27 May 2020.
  18. ^ Pardo, Liarla (10 May 2020). "La surrealista interrupción a la entrevista de Almeida en Liarla Pardo por aplausos al alcalde". La Sexta. Retrieved 27 May 2020.
  19. ^ González, Yolanda. "Almeida pone en un aprieto a Casado y Ayuso con su pacto de reconstrucción en Madrid". infoLibre (in European Spanish). Retrieved 27 May 2020.
  20. ^ De Vega, Luis (25 May 2020). "El Gobierno municipal confirma que Vox se une al proceso de reconstrucción pese a tratar de vetar a Villacís". El País. Retrieved 30 May 2020.
  21. ^ De Vega, Luis (25 May 2020). "El Ayuntamiento de Madrid se da un mes para consensuar con la oposición una salida a la crisis". El País. Retrieved 30 May 2020.
  22. ^ De Vega, Luis (29 May 2020). "El Ayuntamiento aprueba sin votos en contra 66 millones de rebaja fiscal para afrontar la pandemia". El País. Retrieved 30 May 2020.
  23. eldiario.es
    .
  24. ^ El alcalde de Madrid, José Luis Martínez-Almeida, positivo en coronavirus (in Spanish)
  25. ^ Pozas, Pedro Águeda, Alberto (31 March 2022). "Anticorrupción investiga comisiones millonarias en compras de material sanitario por el Ayuntamiento de Madrid". ElDiario.es (in Spanish). Retrieved 19 April 2022.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  26. ^ Moraga, Carmen (17 April 2022). "El contrato de las mascarillas de Almeida se aprobó por WhatsApp y de madrugada". ElDiario.es (in Spanish). Retrieved 19 April 2022.


Political offices
Preceded by Director-General for Historical Heritage of the Community of Madrid
2007–2011
Succeeded by
Preceded by
Manuela Carmena Castrillo
Mayor of Madrid
Since 2019
Succeeded by
Incumbent