Manuela Carmena

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Manuela Carmena (2015)
Manuela Carmena (2015)

Manuela Carmena (born Manuela Carmena Castrillo on February 9, 1944 in Madrid ) is a Spanish judge and politician. She was Mayor of Madrid from June 2015 to June 2019.

Life

Manuela Carmena Castrillo studied law at the Complutense University of Madrid , which she graduated in 1965. She worked as a lawyer. She was a supporter of the Partido Comunista de España, which was banned by the dictatorial Franco regime , and defended imprisoned trade unionists. She was therefore politically persecuted by the Franco regime. After the PCE was re-admitted in 1977, she joined it. After the transition phase in Spain , she was able to become a judge in 1981 and left the PCE.

She received the premio nacional Derechos Humanos in 1986 for her intrepid persecution of acts of violence and human rights violations by the French secret service. In Madrid she was elected chairman of the Madrid Judges' Association. She has worked in criminal and administrative courts and was elected to the General Legal Council in 1996 . She is co-founder of the organization Jueces para la Democracia.

Mayoress of Madrid

In 2015, Carmena was nominated by Podemos for the Spanish municipal elections in Madrid as the top candidate for the Ahora Madrid civic platform . The alliance missed an absolute majority, but together with the socialist PSOE achieved the required majority of 29 out of 57 votes in the local parliament and was able to replace the conservative Partido Popular (PP) , which has ruled for 24 years . In Madrid, Carmena is faced with an administration dominated by the PP and a conservative regional government and, as a supposedly “bourgeois”, has to reckon with fluctuating support from within her own ranks. In June 2015 it failed when Guillermo Zappata was appointed City Councilor for Culture. After being severely attacked by the leading Spanish newspapers El País and El Mundo in the first few weeks of her tenure , she set up the Versión Original website, which compares false reports from the press with corrections by the City Hall.

In the local elections in May 2019, the list she ran, “ Más Madrid ” (More Madrid), won the highest percentage of votes (30.95%), but a coalition of PP, the liberal Ciudadanos and the right-wing populist Vox together held over 50% of the votes and appointed José Luis Martínez-Almeida as the new mayor on June 15 ; Carmena then resigned her office as elected city councilor.

Awards

Fonts (selection)

  • Crónica de un desorden: Notas para reinventar la Justicia . Madrid: Alianza, 1997
  • Por qué las cosas pueden ser diferentes: Reflexiones de una jueza . Madrid: Clave Intelectual, 2014

Web links

Commons : Manuela Carmena  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e Thomas Urban : Manuela Carmena: Renowned lawyer, new left-wing mayor of Madrid , in: Süddeutsche Zeitung , June 15, 2015, p. 4
  2. ↑ Thomas Urban: No more fun , in: Süddeutsche Zeitung , June 17, 2015, p. 13
  3. ^ Paul Ingendaay : Small corrections , in: FAZ , July 18, 2015, p. 16
  4. ↑ El Mundo: Carmena renuncia a su acta de concejal: "Yo ya no soy nadie" , June 17, 2019 (Spanish)
predecessor Office successor
Ana Botella Mayoress of Madrid
2015-2019 		José Luis Martínez-Almeida
personal data
SURNAME Carmena, Manuela
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Spanish lawyer and mayor
DATE OF BIRTH February 9, 1944
PLACE OF BIRTH Madrid