Manuela Carmena
Manuela Carmena | |
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Mayor of Madrid | |
In office 13 June 2015 – 15 June 2019 | |
Deputy | Marta Higueras |
Preceded by | Ana Botella |
Succeeded by | José Luis Martínez-Almeida |
Member of the City Council of Madrid | |
In office 13 June 2015 – 17 June 2019 | |
Member of the General Council of the Judiciary | |
In office 26 July 1996 – 7 November 2001 | |
Personal details | |
Born | Madrid, Spain | 9 February 1944
Political party | Más Madrid (since 2019) |
Other political affiliations | PCE (1965–1981) Ahora Madrid (2015–2019) |
Spouse |
Eduardo Leira (m. 1967) |
Children | 2 |
Alma mater | University of Valencia |
Profession |
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Manuela Carmena Castrillo (Spanish pronunciation: [maˈnwela kaɾˈmena kasˈtɾiʎo]; born in 1944) is a retired Spanish lawyer and judge who served as Mayor of Madrid from June 2015 to June 2019. She was a member of the General Council of the Judiciary.
Biography
Early life
She was born on 9 February 1944 in
After graduating in
Carmena, who joined the Communist Party of Spain (PCE) in 1965,[10] married architect Eduardo Leira in 1967;[7] they have had two children: Eva and Manuel.[11] She ran as a candidate in the PCE list for the 1977 general election in the constituency of Madrid.[12] She had left the party by 1981.[13]
Judicial career
After passing public examinations to become a judge, she started her judicial career in January 1981.[14] As a judge she began an almost solitary fight to prevent corruption in existing courts.[15] In 1986 she received the National Human Rights Award.[16] She was a founding member of the progressive association Judges for Democracy.[14] Judge of Penitentiary Vigilance and head of the Penitentiary Vigilance Court No. 1 of Madrid, she was elected senior judge of Madrid in 1993.[17] She was appointed as member of the General Council of the Judiciary (proposed by United Left)[18] and served from 1996 to 2001.[19]
Activity after retirement
After retiring from the judiciary in 2010, Carmena moved on to become a member of the Patronato de la Fundación Alternativas, a think tank with ties to the Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE), and whose members included the former Socialist prime ministers Felipe González and José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero. Carmena was Chair-Rapporteur of the United Nations Working Group on Arbitrary Detention, and as such, she has visited Equatorial Guinea, Honduras, Nicaragua and South Africa, among other countries.[20] In September 2011, Carmena was appointed advisor to the Patxi López cabinet of the Basque Government in the area of assistance to victims of police abuse.[21]
Carmena Castrillo founded the supportive cooperative "Yayos emprendedores" (literally, "entrepreneur grannies"), which manages a small retail business selling children's games, clothing and shoes made by prisoners at the Alcalá de Guadaira jail in Seville.[22][23]
Mayor of Madrid
Carmena headed Ahora Madrid's ticket in the Madrid local election held on 24 May 2015. After Ahora Madrid made a coalition deal with the PSOE, Carmena was elected as Mayor on 13 June 2015, obtaining the votes of 29 out of 57 councillors and thereby winning a narrow majority.[24]
Carmena reduced Madrid's municipal debt by €5.6 billion (or 38%) in the first 18 months of her mayorship.
Carmena ran for re-election in the 2019 municipal election,[28] but stated that she would retire from the City Council should she not be re-elected as Mayor.[29][30] In November 2018, the political platform for Más Madrid was unveiled, with Carmena at its centre.[31] In the municipal election held on 26 May 2019, Más Madrid was the most-voted party, obtaining 19 seats in the plenary assembly, but on 15 June 2019, the People's Party's mayoral candidate José Luis Martínez-Almeida, with the support of Citizens and Vox, earned the vote of an absolute majority of councillors (29 out of 57 councillors) and was elected as Mayor.[32][33] On 17 June 2019, Carmena resigned from her councillor seat.[34]
Since June 2019
In January 2021, she complained that, "We are infected with lies regarding reality. It is very difficult to develop correct policies for a deformed reality. One of the issues we must consider is how to combat the systematic lies that deform the social reality."[35]
Electoral history
Election | List | Constituency | List position | Result |
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Spanish general election, 1977 (Congress of Deputies) | PCE | Madrid | 23rd (out of 32)[36] | Unelected |
Madrid municipal election, 2015 | Ahora Madrid | - | 1st (out of 57)[37] | Elected |
Madrid municipal election, 2019 | Más Madrid | - | 1st (out of 57) | Elected |
Books
- — (1997). Crónica de un desorden: Notas para reinventar la Justicia. Madrid: Alianza Editorial.[38]
- — (2014). Por qué las cosas pueden ser diferentes: Reflexiones de una jueza. Madrid: Clave Intelectual.[39]
- — (2019). A los que vienen. Madrid: Aguilar.
Decorations
- Great Cross of the Order of the Sun of Peru (2015)[42][43]
- Great Cross of the Order of Merit (2018)[44]
References
- ^ "Carmena: "El reto es convertir a Madrid en una ciudad decente"". La Vanguardia. 24 May 2015.
- ^ Gallo, Bruno García (10 March 2015). "La exjuez Manuela Carmena, candidata de Podemos en Madrid". El País.
- ^ Gutiérrez, Juan (14 June 2017). "Manuela Carmena: "Nos inquieta la violencia en el deporte"". As.
- La Razón.
- ^ Silió, Elisa (7 March 2018). "Carmena hace tertulia con las maestras". El País.
- ^ Rodríguez-Pina, Gloria (28 May 2015). "Manuela Carmena: 27 cosas que tienes que saber sobre la nueva alcaldesa de Madrid". El HuffPost.
- ^ a b c Villalba, Enrique (2016). "Manuela Carmena, la alcaldesa del cambio". Madridiario.
- ^ "Manuela Carmena Castrillo". Transparenciamadrid. Ayuntamiento de Madrid. Archived from the original on 20 November 2017.
- ^ "Manuela Carmena, elected Podemos' candidate to lead the Ahora Madrid list". HuffPost (in Spanish). 10 March 2015.
- ^ Carvajal, Álvaro; Bécares, Roberto (10 March 2015). "Podemos elige a la ex juez Manuela Carmena como apuesta para el Ayuntamiento de Madrid". El Mundo.
- ^ "La hija de cine de la candidata a la alcaldía Manuela Carmena". El Mundo. 18 April 2015.
- ^ "The "visionary" story of Manuela Carmena" (in Spanish). La Marea. 1 April 2015.
- ^ "Important drop of communist party membership". El País. 10 May 1981.
- ^ a b Ríos, Daniel; Romero, Juanma (10 March 2015). "Podemos apuesta por la exjueza Manuela Carmena para aspirar a la Alcaldía de Madrid". InfoLibre.
- ^ "First legal agreements to prevent corruption in the courts". El País (in Spanish). 16 May 1985.
- ^ "Judge Manuela Carmena, National Human Rights Award 1986". El País (in Spanish). 6 December 1986.
- ^ "A progressive judge, new senior of Madrid". El País (in Spanish). 11 February 1993.
- ^ "Podemos apuesta por la exvocal del CGPJ Manuela Carmena para la Alcaldía de Madrid". RTVE. 10 March 2015.
- ^ "El Rey se reúne con Manuela Carmena". El Correo. 3 July 2015.
- ^ "Manuela Carmena, chosen as Podemos' candidate for leader of Ahora Madrid's list". HuffPost (in Spanish). 10 March 2015.
- ^ "Manuela Carmena: "I was menaced by ETA myself"". El País (in Spanish). 20 May 2015.
- ^ Yayos Emprendedores, una empresa con beneficio social (in Spanish)
- ^ Zapatelas: Quiénes Somos (in Spanish)
- ^ García Gallo, Bruno (13 June 2015). "Manuela Carmena, alcaldesa de Madrid". El País.
- ^ "El Ayuntamiento de Carmena reduce la deuda de Madrid un 38% en menos de dos años: "No robar ayuda"". 4 November 2016.
- ^ Eldiario.es.
- ^ López de Miguel, Alejandro (19 December 2017). "Siete claves de la destitución de Sánchez Mato y la crisis Montoro en el Ayuntamiento". Público.
- ^ Martiarena, Asier (9 September 2018). "Manuela Carmena se presentará a la reelección como alcaldesa de Madrid". La Vanguardia (in Spanish). Retrieved 21 December 2018.
- Europa Press (21 November 2018). "Carmena asegura que se retirará si no gana las elecciones de mayo". Público(in Spanish). Display Connectors, S.L. Retrieved 21 December 2018.
- ABC(in Spanish). Retrieved 21 December 2018.
- ^ Rodríguez-Pina, Gloria (22 November 2018). "Carmena presenta Más Madrid, la plataforma con la que concurrirá a las elecciones". El País.
- ^ "Resultados Electorales en Madrid: Elecciones Municipales 2019 en EL PAÍS". El País. Resultados.elpais.com. Retrieved 16 June 2019.
- ISSN 1134-6582. Retrieved 16 June 2019.
- eldiario.es. Retrieved 17 June 2019.
- Wikidata Q110039788.
- ISSN 0212-033X.
- ISSN 1989-4791.
- ISSN 0718-0853.
- ABC. 4 June 2015.
- ISSN 0212-033X.
- Agencia EFE. 13 June 2015.
- ^ "El gobierno peruano condecora a la alcaldesa de Madrid, señora Manuela Carmena". Embajada del Perú en España. 30 December 2015.
- Eldiario.es. 30 December 2015.
- ^ "Entidades Estrangeiras Agraciadas com Ordens Portuguesas". Presidência da República Portuguesa. Retrieved 22 October 2018.. Result of searching: "Manuela Carmena Castrillo"