José Luis Martínez-Almeida

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José Luis Martínez-Almeida (2018)

José Luis Martínez-Almeida Navasqüés (born April 17, 1975 in Madrid ) is a Spanish lawyer and politician of the Partido Popular (PP), the Spanish people's party. He has been Mayor of Madrid since June 2019.

Life

José Luis Martínez-Almeida began studying law in 1993 at the Pontifical University of Comillas at the Instituto Católico de Administración y Dirección de Empresas (ICADE), the center for law and economics, graduating in 1998 ( Licenciatura en Derecho ). In 2001 he became a public prosecutor , first in Girona , from 2002 in Toledo and from 2003 to 2007 he was at the Tribunal Superior de Justicia de Madrid , the Supreme Court of the Autonomous Community of Madrid .

politics

At the age of 20 he joined the Partido Popular (PP), in 2007 he was appointed Director General of the Historical Heritage of the Autonomous Community of Madrid by the President of the Community of Madrid Esperanza Aguirre and was an advisor to the Minister of Culture, Santiago Fisas . In 2011 Aguirre appointed him Secretary General of the Government of the Autonomous Community, a post he held until 2013. He was then head of the legal department at SEPIDES ( SEPI Desarrollo Empresarial ), a subsidiary of Sociedad Estatal de Participaciones Industriales (SEPI), the state company for industrial holdings. In 2014, the Rajoy government appointed him legal director of a newly created independent financial agency.

In the 2015 local elections in Madrid he ran for the Partido Popular led by Esperanza Aguirre and was elected to the city council. Although the PP achieved a relative majority in the elections, Manuela Carmena, nominated by Podemos , and her leftist alliance with the support of the socialist PSOE were able to collect the necessary seats in the city council and thus replace the PP, which has been in power for 24 years, as mayor. After Esperanza Aguirre's withdrawal, Martínez-Almeida was elected chairman and spokesman for the PP parliamentary group in the town hall in 2017.

In July 2018, the newly elected party chairman Pablo Casado brought him to the Partido Popular executive committee.

Mayor of Madrid

After the local elections in 2019, Martínez-Almeida was elected Mayor of Madrid on June 15 to succeed Manuela Carmena . In addition to the votes of the fifteen representatives of his own party, he also received eleven votes from Ciudadanos and four votes from Vox . With their help, the conservatives were able to replace the previous incumbent from the left-wing Más Madrid alliance . In the local elections in May 2019, she had received the most votes in Madrid, but since then she has not had enough seats on the city council for an absolute majority with other left parties.

Demonstration for the conservation of the low-traffic environmental zone "Madrid Central" in June 2019 in Madrid

At the beginning of July 2019, Martínez-Almeida suspended the ban on old diesel and petrol vehicles from entering the 472-hectare protected area Madrid Central, which its predecessor had in 2018. Due to an injunction , he had to withdraw this measure a few days later. The mayor's environmental policy measures led to a demonstration with 60,000 participants in downtown Madrid and in front of the city hall, around 240,000 citizens also signed a protest resolution calling for “a pedestrian-friendly, modern and sustainable Madrid”.

Web links

Commons : José Luis Martínez-Almeida  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d José Luis Martínez-Almeida, el valor del escalafón. May 7, 2019, accessed July 28, 2019 (Spanish).
  2. ↑ a b Madrid: Influence of right-wing populists has grown. June 15, 2019, accessed July 27, 2019 .
  3. ↑ a b c José Luis Martínez-Almeida Navasqüés. Retrieved July 28, 2019 (Spanish).
  4. ↑ Casado incorpora a Martínez Almeida, Díaz Ayuso, Vera y González Terol en el nuevo Comité Ejecutivo del PP. July 26, 2018, Retrieved July 28, 2019 (Spanish).
  5. ^ Too much nitrogen oxide in Spain: thick air between the EU and Madrid. July 25, 2019, accessed July 27, 2019 .
  6. ↑ "Fewer cars, better air": Exhaust emissions in Madrid and Barcelona are far too high. July 27, 2019, accessed July 27, 2019 .
predecessor Office successor
Manuela Carmena Mayor of Madrid
2019– 		-
personal data
SURNAME Martínez-Almeida, José Luis
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Martínez-Almeida Navasqüés, José Luis (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Spanish lawyer and politician (PP), Mayor of Madrid
DATE OF BIRTH April 17th 1975
PLACE OF BIRTH Madrid