Cristina Cifuentes

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Cristina Cifuentes, 2017

Cristina Cifuentes Cuencas (born July 1, 1964 in Madrid ) is a former Spanish politician . From June 25, 2015 to April 2018, she was the fifth President of the Regional Government of the Autonomous Community of Madrid and, since March 2017, Chairwoman of the Partido Popular Madrid. On April 25, 2018, she resigned as President of the Autonomous Community of Madrid. After allegations related to obtaining her master's degree , a video of a bag inspection after the alleged theft of two drugstore items in 2011 emerged, for which the supermarket in question had not reported her. On April 28, 2018, she will also step down from her position as President of the Madrid Partido Popular. A short time later she gives up her remaining political offices.

biography

She grew up in Madrid with seven siblings, her father was General of Artillery , her mother a housewife. She studied at the Complutense University of Madrid Business Law and Public Administration and private law at the University Rey Juan Carlos , politicized at the age of 16 years for the conservative Popular Party (PP) , then still Alianza Popular. At 26, she was elected as a member of the Parliament of the Community of Madrid. Between 2005 and 2012 she was Vice-President of the Chamber of Deputies of the Autonomous Community of Madrid. In 1994 she ran unsuccessfully for the European Parliament .

From 2012 to 2015 she was the representative of the Spanish central government in the autonomous community of Madrid .

In 2015, she ran for the office of regional president in the regional elections in Madrid because her party colleague and incumbent Ignacio González González resigned. Like its predecessor González, Cifuentes is involved in the “ Operación Púnica ”, which is about embezzlement of public funds in the second decade of the third millennium, and lost the absolute majority held by the PP since 1995 in the election. With the support of the liberal Ciudadanos , it was finally able to achieve exactly the necessary majority of 65 out of 129 seats, while Socialists and Podemos got 64 seats, and formed a minority government. In the PP, she has been the party leader of Madrid since 2017. She was seen as a supporter of the modernization course within the PP of Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy .

Falsification allegation and withdrawal from politics

On March 21, 2018, the online newspaper published Eldiario.es the accusation, Cristina Cifuentes had 2012 their legal master's degree at the Universidad Rey Juan Carlos acquired as a result of counterfeiting. Two out of three grades have been changed from not submitted to good (notable) . She did not take part in 80% of the scheduled courses as prescribed, nor did she complete the exams at the prescribed time. According to the rector of the university, the existence of a master's thesis , which Cifuentes has properly defended , cannot be proven either. On April 6, 2018, the Móstoles public prosecutor opened a criminal investigation.

On April 27, 2018, Cifuentes announced her resignation from the presidency of the PP of the Community of Madrid, and on May 8, she resigned as a MP, announcing her withdrawal from politics. In March 2019, Cifuentes announced that it had left the PP.

Web links

Cristina Cifuentes at the Dos de Mayo celebrations (2017)
Commons : Cristina Cifuentes  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ NZZ: Madrid is going green: Spain's capital is reinventing itself from June 24, 2017, accessed on June 26, 2017.
  2. ↑ a b Allegations of theft - Regional President of Madrid resigns , spiegel.de, April 25, 2018.
  3. ↑ "Cristina Cifuentes dimite como presidenta de la Comunidad de Madrid." Retrieved on the same day in: EL País of April 25, 2018.
  4. ^ "Cifuentes renuncia a la presidencia del PP de la Comunidad de Madrid." In: El País, April 28th, June 12th 2018.
  5. ^ "Cifuentes deja su acta de diputada y se retira de la política." In: El País of May 8, 2018, accessed on June 12.
  6. ↑ El País: Cifuentes ve motivos políticos en la acusación de corrupción from May 17, 2017, accessed June 26, 2017 (Spanish).
  7. ↑ Süddeutsche Zeitung: Cristina Cifuentes - Hope of the Spanish Conservatives of June 22, 2016, accessed on June 26, 2017.
  8. ↑ Thomas Urban , Magister affair meets Rajoy , sz.de of April 12, 2018 [accessed April 21, 2018].
  9. ↑ Raquel Ejerique: Cristina Cifuentes obtuvo su título de máster en una universidad pública con notas falsificadas . In: eldiario.es . March 21, 2018 (Spanish, eldiario.es [accessed April 6, 2018]).
  10. ↑ José Precedo, David Sarabia, Raúl Rejón, Antonio M. Vélez: Alumnos del masters de Cifuentes: "No la vimos en clase ni un solo día" . In: eldiario.es . March 23, 2018 (Spanish, eldiario.es [accessed April 6, 2018]).
  11. ↑ Mónica Ceberio Belaza: Delitos y faltas en torno al caso Cifuentes: falsedad, prevaricación y nulidad de pleno derecho del título . In: EL PAÍS . April 6, 2018 (Spanish, elpais.com [accessed April 6, 2018]).
  12. ↑ Pilar Álvarez: El rector desmonta la versión de Cifuentes: “No se puede confirmar que defendiera el Trabajo de Fin de Máster” . In: EL PAÍS . April 6, 2018 (Spanish, elpais.com [accessed April 6, 2018]).
  13. ↑ Esther Sánchez, Agencias: La Fiscalía de Móstoles abre diligencias y Cifuentes insiste en que no dimitirá . In: EL PAÍS . April 6, 2018 (Spanish, elpais.com [accessed April 6, 2018]).
  14. ↑ Gonzalo Cortizo; Sofía Pérez Mendoza: Cristina Cifuentes renuncia también a la presidencia del PP de Madrid. In: El Diario. April 27, 2018, accessed January 17, 2019 (Spanish).
  15. ↑ Cifuentes también renuncia a su escaño en la Asamblea de Madrid y deja la política. In: El Diario. May 5, 2018, accessed January 17, 2019 (Spanish).
  16. ↑ Cristina Cifuentes pide su "baja temporal de militancia" en el PP. In: El Mundo. March 1, 2018, accessed July 26, 2019 (Spanish).
personal data
SURNAME Cifuentes, Cristina
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Cifuentes Cuencas, Cristina
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Spanish politician
DATE OF BIRTH July 1, 1964
PLACE OF BIRTH Madrid