President of the Community of Madrid

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President of the
Community of Madrid
Coat of arms of the Community of Madrid
Incumbent
Isabel Díaz Ayuso
since 17 August 2019
StyleExcelentisimo/a señor/a (The Most Excellent)
NominatorAssembly of Madrid
AppointerThe Monarch
countersigned by the Prime Minister
Term lengthFour years
Inaugural holderJoaquín Leguina
Formation15 June 1983
WebsiteComunidad de Madrid

The president of the Community of Madrid is the highest-ranking officer of the

Autonomous Community of Madrid and the head of the executive branch. The office is currently held by Isabel Díaz Ayuso of the People's Party
.

Origins and election

Royal Post Office
is the current seat of the office of the President of Madrid

In the process of the democracy restoration in Spain between 1975–1978, the nationalist and

Autonomous Community of Madrid
(Spanish Comunidad Autónoma de Madrid) was created in 1982, and since then regional elections are held every 4 years.

The citizens of the

Autonomous Communities of Spain do not elect a person for presidency of their community: but rather they elect the regional legislature, and that legislature elects the regional president. A candidate needs a majority (that is supposed to be loyal to him/her during the whole term) to be elected, but the top-voted party can be denied the right to form the government. This situation, though infrequent in nationwide elections, often happens in local/regional legislatures throughout Spain: the most usual coalition is between the Socialist Party (PSOE) and the United Left (IU)
.

In Madrid, such a coalition was formed in the 2nd term, in which the incumbent Socialist

Assembly
Members, which denounced the pact with IU as being too wide and unrepresentative of the people's will due to the planned power balance. Elections were repeated after a few weeks and Partido Popular won, then by absolute majority.

Since then, the People's Party victories by absolute majority were repeated in 2007 and 2011's regional elections. After the resignation of President

Esperanza Aguirre, nominally due to personal matters in late 2012, her deputy president Ignacio González held the post. The People's Party obtained the most votes in 2015 but lost its absolute majority. Its candidate Cristina Cifuentes was invested president after an agreement with Citizens
. She was replaced by her deputy Ángel Garrido when she resigned after evidence of both a fake master's degree and petty shoplifting came out.

List of officeholders

Governments:

  •   
    PSOE
  •   PP
  •   Mixed coalition
Portrait Name
(Birth–Death) 		Term of office Party Government
Composition 		Election Monarch
(Reign) 		Ref.
Took office Left office Duration
Joaquín Leguina
(born 1941) 		15 June
1983 		22 July
1987 		12 years and 15 days
PSOE
 Leguina I
PSOE
 		1983
Juan Carlos I

(1975–2014) 		[2]
[3]
[4]
[5]
22 July
1987 		13 July
1991 		Leguina II
PSOE
 		1987
13 July
1991 		30 June
1995 		Leguina III
PSOE
 		1991
Alberto Ruiz-Gallardón
(born 1958) 		30 June
1995 		8 July
1999 		8 years and 144 days PP Gallardón I
PP 		1995 [6]
[7]
[8]
8 July
1999 		21 November
2003 		Gallardón II
PP 		1999
May 2003
Esperanza Aguirre
(born 1952) 		21 November
2003 		20 June
2007 		8 years and 301 days PP Aguirre I
PP 		Oct. 2003 [9]
[10]
[11]
[12]
[13]
20 June
2007 		16 June
2011 		Aguirre II
PP 		2007
16 June
2011 		17 September
2012
(resigned) 		Aguirre III
PP 		2011
During this interval, Vice President Ignacio González served as acting officeholder.
Ignacio González
(born 1960) 		27 September
2012 		25 June
2015 		2 years and 271 days PP González
PP 		[14]
[15]
[16]
Felipe VI

(2014–present)
Cristina Cifuentes
(born 1964) 		25 June
2015 		25 April
2018
(resigned) 		2 years and 304 days PP Cifuentes
PP 		2015 [17]
[18]
[19]
[20]
During this interval, Minister of the Presidency Ángel Garrido served as acting officeholder.
Ángel Garrido
(born 1964) 		19 May
2018 		11 April
2019
(resigned) 		327 days PP Garrido
PP 		[21]
[22]
[23]
During this interval,
Pedro Rollán
served as acting officeholder.
Isabel Díaz Ayuso
(born 1978) 		17 August
2019 		19 June
2021 		4 years and 245 days PP Ayuso I
PP–Cs until Mar 2021
PP from Mar 2021 		2019 [24]
[25]
[26]
19 June
2021 		23 June
2023 		Ayuso II
PP 		2021
23 June
2023 		Incumbent Ayuso III
PP 		2023

Timeline

Isabel Díaz AyusoPedro Rollán (politician)Ángel GarridoCristina CifuentesIgnacio González (politician)Esperanza AguirreAlberto Ruiz-GallardónJoaquín Leguina

References

  1. ^ In fact, even the PSOE-IU coalition was in the minority (47 seats) against the centre-right parties PP and CDS (49), which however could not reach an agreement to rule. Once they did, a situation similar to the 6th term scandal arose, depriving those parties of the majority and allowing President Leguina to continue his minority government.
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  12. ^ Marcos, José (17 September 2012). "Esperanza Aguirre dimite". El País (in Spanish). Madrid. Retrieved 25 April 2018.
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  14. ^ "Ignacio González asume la presidencia en funciones de la Comunidad de Madrid". El Periódico de Catalunya (in Spanish). 17 September 2012. Retrieved 25 April 2018.
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  18. ^ Pérez Mendoza, Sofía (25 April 2018). "Cristina Cifuentes dimite como presidenta de la Comunidad de Madrid". eldiario.es (in Spanish). Retrieved 28 April 2018.
  19. ^ "El portavoz Ángel Garrido asume la presidencia de la Comunidad de Madrid en funciones". eldiario.es (in Spanish). 25 April 2018. Retrieved 25 April 2018.
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  22. ^ "Pedro Rollán asume la Presidencia de la Comunidad en funciones tras la dimisión de Garrido" (in Spanish). Telemadrid. 11 April 2019. Retrieved 6 September 2020.
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