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President of the Community of Madrid

Political position in Madrid


Political position in Madrid

FieldValue
postPresident of the
Community of Madrid
insigniaCoat of Arms of the Community of Madrid.svg
insigniasize70px
insigniacaptionCoat of arms of the Community of Madrid
imageIsabel Díaz Ayuso visita un centro de FP Dual (33690566148) (cropped).jpg
incumbentIsabel Díaz Ayuso
incumbentsince17 August 2019
style*Excelentisimo/a señor/a* (The Most Excellent)
nominatorAssembly of Madrid
appointerThe Monarch
appointer_qualifiedcountersigned by the Prime Minister
termlengthFour years
inauguralJoaquín Leguina
formation15 June 1983
website[Comunidad de Madrid](http://www.madrid.org/)

Community of 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

In the process of the democracy restoration in Spain between 1975–1978, the nationalist and regionalist parties pressed to grant home rule to parts of Spain. Finally, the Constitution stated that any province or group of provinces could form an autonomous community and thus be granted partial home rule. The 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 Joaquín Leguina obtained the most vote but not a majority, once more in the 3rd term, allowing him to remain in office even after having obtained fewer votes than the People's Party (PP), and once more in the 6th term, by the PSOE candidate Rafael Simancas. However, this last coalition ultimately failed due to the dissidence of two PSOE 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:

PortraitName
(Birth–Death)Term of officePartyGovernment
CompositionElectionMonarch
(Reign)Ref.Took officeLeft officeDuration
[[File:(Leguina) Felipe González recibe al presidente de la Comunidad de Madrid (cropped) (cropped).jpeg65px]]**Joaquín Leguina**
(born 1941)15 June
198322 July
1987Madrilenian Socialist Federation}};"PSOELeguina I
PSOE[1983](1983-madrilenian-regional-election)King
**Juan Carlos I**
[[File:Coat of Arms of Spain.svg60px]]
(19752014)
22 July
198713 July
1991Leguina II
PSOE[1987](1987-madrilenian-regional-election)
13 July
199130 June
1995Leguina III
PSOE[1991](1991-madrilenian-regional-election)
[[File:Ruiz Gallardón 2005.jpg65px]]**Alberto Ruiz-Gallardón**
(born 1958)30 June
19958 July
1999People's Party of the Community of Madrid}};"PPGallardón I
PP[1995](1995-madrilenian-regional-election)
8 July
199921 November
2003Gallardón II
PP[1999](1999-madrilenian-regional-election)
May 2003
[[File:Esperanza Aguirre 2008b (cropped).jpg65px]]**Esperanza Aguirre**
(born 1952)21 November
200320 June
2007People's Party of the Community of Madrid}};"PPAguirre I
PPOct. 2003
20 June
200716 June
2011Aguirre II
PP[2007](2007-madrilenian-regional-election)
16 June
201117 September
2012
*(resigned)*Aguirre III
PP[2011](2011-madrilenian-regional-election)
*During this interval, Vice President Ignacio González served as acting officeholder.*
[[File:Ignacio González 2013 (cropped).jpg65px]]**Ignacio González**
(born 1960)27 September
201225 June
2015People's Party of the Community of Madrid}};"PPGonzález
PP
King
**Felipe VI**
[[File:Coat of Arms of Spain.svg60px]]
(2014present)
[[File:Cristina Cifuentes 2018c (cropped).jpg65px]]**Cristina Cifuentes**
(born 1964)25 June
201525 April
2018
*(resigned)*People's Party of the Community of Madrid}};"PPCifuentes
PP[2015](2015-madrilenian-regional-election)
*During this interval, Minister of the Presidency Ángel Garrido served as acting officeholder.*
[[File:Ángel Garrido 2018 (cropped).jpg65px]]**Ángel Garrido**
(born 1964)19 May
201811 April
2019
*(resigned)*People's Party of the Community of Madrid}};"PPGarrido
PP
*During this interval, Vice President Pedro Rollán served as acting officeholder.*
[[File:Isabel Díaz Ayuso 2019c (cropped).jpg65px]]**Isabel Díaz Ayuso**
(born 1978)17 August
201919 June
2021People's Party of the Community of Madrid}};"PPAyuso I
PP–Cs until Mar 2021
PP from Mar 2021[2019](2019-madrilenian-regional-election)
19 June
202123 June
2023Ayuso II
PP[2021](2021-madrilenian-regional-election)
23 June
2023IncumbentAyuso III
PP[2023](2023-madrilenian-regional-election)

Timeline

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from: 15/06/1983 till: 30/06/1995 color:PSOE text:"Leguina" fontsize:10 from: 30/06/1995 till: 21/11/2003 color:PP text:"Gallardón" fontsize:10 from: 21/11/2003 till: 17/09/2012 color:PP text:"Aguirre" fontsize:10 from: 17/09/2012 till: 25/06/2015 color:PP text:"González" fontsize:10 from: 25/06/2015 till: 25/04/2018 color:PP text:"Cifuentes" fontsize:10 from: 25/04/2018 till: 11/04/2019 color:PP text:"Garrido" fontsize:10 from: 11/04/2019 till: 17/08/2019 color:PP text:"Rollán" fontsize:10 from: 17/08/2019 till: end color:PP text:"Ayuso" fontsize:10

References

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 [[#The 6th term scandal. 6th term scandal]] arose, depriving those parties of the majority and allowing President Leguina to continue his minority government.
  2. (15 June 1983). "Real Decreto 1620/1983, de 14 de junio, por el que se nombra Presidente de la Comunidad de Madrid a don Joaquín Leguina Herrán". Agencia Estatal Boletín Oficial del Estado.
  3. (22 July 1987). "Real Decreto 945/1987, de 20 de julio, por el que se nombra Presidente de la Comunidad de Madrid a don Joaquín Leguina Herrán". Agencia Estatal Boletín Oficial del Estado.
  4. (13 July 1991). "Real Decreto 1083/1991, de 12 de julio, por el que se nombra Presidente de la Comunidad de Madrid a don Joaquin Leguina Herrán". Agencia Estatal Boletín Oficial del Estado.
  5. (30 June 1995). "Real Decreto 1097/1995, de 29 de junio, por el que se declara el cese de don Joaquín Leguina Herrán, como Presidente de la Comunidad de Madrid". Agencia Estatal Boletín Oficial del Estado.
  6. (30 June 1995). "Real Decreto 1098/1995, de 29 de junio, por el que se nombra Presidente de la Comunidad Autónoma de Madrid a don Alberto Ruiz-Gallardón Jiménez". Agencia Estatal Boletín Oficial del Estado.
  7. (8 July 1999). "Real Decreto 1196/1999, de 7 de julio, por el que se nombra Presidente de la Comunidad de Madrid a don Alberto Ruiz-Gallardón Jiménez". Agencia Estatal Boletín Oficial del Estado.
  8. (21 November 2003). "Real Decreto 1426/2003, de 7 de noviembre, por el que se declara el cese de don Alberto Ruiz-Gallardón Jiménez como Presidente de la Comunidad de Madrid". Agencia Estatal Boletín Oficial del Estado.
  9. (21 November 2003). "Real Decreto 1427/2003, de 20 de noviembre, por el que se nombra Presidenta de la Comunidad de Madrid a doña Esperanza Aguirre Gil de Biedma". Agencia Estatal Boletín Oficial del Estado.
  10. (20 June 2007). "Real Decreto 809/2007, de 19 de junio, por el que se nombra Presidenta de la Comunidad de Madrid a doña Esperanza Aguirre Gil de Biedma". Agencia Estatal Boletín Oficial del Estado.
  11. (16 June 2011). "Real Decreto 836/2011, de 15 de junio, por el que se nombra Presidenta de la Comunidad de Madrid a doña Esperanza Aguirre Gil de Biedma". Agencia Estatal Boletín Oficial del Estado.
  12. Marcos, José. (17 September 2012). "Esperanza Aguirre dimite". El País.
  13. (27 September 2012). "Real Decreto 1360/2012, de 26 de septiembre, por el que se declara el cese de doña Esperanza Aguirre Gil de Biedma como Presidenta de la Comunidad de Madrid". Agencia Estatal Boletín Oficial del Estado.
  14. (17 September 2012). "Ignacio González asume la presidencia en funciones de la Comunidad de Madrid". El Periódico de Catalunya.
  15. (27 September 2012). "Real Decreto 1361/2012, de 26 de septiembre, por el que se nombra Presidente de la Comunidad de Madrid a don Jaime Ignacio González González". Agencia Estatal Boletín Oficial del Estado.
  16. (25 June 2015). "Real Decreto 532/2015, de 24 de junio, por el que se declara el cese de don Jaime Ignacio González González como Presidente de la Comunidad de Madrid". Agencia Estatal Boletín Oficial del Estado.
  17. (25 June 2015). "Real Decreto 533/2015, de 24 de junio, por el que se nombra Presidenta de la Comunidad de Madrid a doña Cristina Cifuentes Cuencas". Agencia Estatal Boletín Oficial del Estado.
  18. Pérez Mendoza, Sofía. (25 April 2018). "Cristina Cifuentes dimite como presidenta de la Comunidad de Madrid". eldiario.es.
  19. (25 April 2018). "El portavoz Ángel Garrido asume la presidencia de la Comunidad de Madrid en funciones". eldiario.es.
  20. (28 April 2018). "Real Decreto 234/2018, de 27 de abril, por el que se declara el cese de doña Cristina Cifuentes Cuencas como Presidenta de la Comunidad de Madrid". Agencia Estatal Boletín Oficial del Estado.
  21. (19 May 2018). "Real Decreto 329/2018, de 18 de mayo, por el que se nombra Presidente de la Comunidad de Madrid a don Ángel Garrido García". Agencia Estatal Boletín Oficial del Estado.
  22. (11 April 2019). "Pedro Rollán asume la Presidencia de la Comunidad en funciones tras la dimisión de Garrido". Telemadrid.
  23. (13 April 2019). "Real Decreto 254/2019, de 12 de abril, por el que se declara el cese de don Ángel Garrido García como Presidente de la Comunidad de Madrid". Agencia Estatal Boletín Oficial del Estado.
  24. (17 August 2019). "Real Decreto 495/2019, de 16 de agosto, por el que se nombra Presidenta de la Comunidad de Madrid a doña Isabel Natividad Díaz Ayuso". Agencia Estatal Boletín Oficial del Estado.
  25. (19 June 2021). "Real Decreto 439/2021, de 18 de junio, por el que se nombra Presidenta de la Comunidad de Madrid a doña Isabel Natividad Díaz Ayuso". Agencia Estatal Boletín Oficial del Estado.
  26. (23 June 2023). "Real Decreto 542/2023, de 22 de junio, por el que se nombra Presidenta de la Comunidad de Madrid a doña Isabel Natividad Díaz Ayuso.". Agencia Estatal Boletín Oficial del Estado.
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