María Dolores de Cospedal García

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Maria Dolores de Cospedal, 2008

María Dolores de Cospedal García (birth name: María Dolores Cospedal García ; born December 13, 1965 in Madrid ) is a former Spanish politician . From June 2008 to July 2018 she was General Secretary of the Partido Popular (PP). From November 2016 to June 2018 she was Minister of Defense of Spain .

Career

Cospedal studied law at the Madrid private university CEU San Pablo of the Catholic Centro de Estudios Universitarios . From 1991 she was a prosecutor in the Basque Country . From 1992 she worked for what is now the Ministry of Development, later in the Ministry of Social Affairs. In 1998 she worked as a consultant at the Spanish Embassy in the United States , and in 1999 she was appointed Technical Secretary General in the Department of Social Affairs and Labor. She also worked for the Ministry of Public Administration and the Ministry of the Interior .

Political offices

In June 2006 Cospedal was elected party leader of the PP in Castile-La Mancha . Two years later, Mariano Rajoy appointed her as the first general secretary in the history of the PP. After a historic election victory for her party on May 22, 2011 in Castile-La Mancha, which has always been governed by socialism since 1982 , she was Prime Minister of the Autonomous Community of Castile-La Mancha from June 2011 to 2015 . She lost this post after the May 2015 autonomous elections when her government was replaced by an alliance between socialists and the left-wing populist Podemos party . On November 3, 2016, María Dolores de Cospedal was appointed Minister of Defense of the Spanish Government in the second Rajoy cabinet.

With the constructive no-confidence vote on June 1, 2018, the said Cortes Generales over the Rajoy government of her suspicions, whereupon the reign Cospedal ended.

After Rajoy's resignation from the party chairmanship of the PP, Cospedal applied for the party office, but only received 26 percent of the votes in the primary and thus third place. She was eliminated from the race and made a recommendation for Pablo Casado , who finally prevailed against Soraya Sáenz de Santamaría in the second ballot at the party congress on July 21, 2018 . After Casado was elected party chairman, Cospedal also lost her post as general secretary of the PP, her successor being Teodoro García Egea .

On November 5, 2018, Cospedal also resigned from the party's executive committee. The background to this was the publication of tape recordings that revealed that nine years earlier she had hired a former national police commissioner to spy on both rivals in her own party and members of the competing PSOE . On November 7, 2018, she finally renounced her parliamentary mandate and announced her retirement from politics.

Party donation scandal

Through press releases in July 2013, allegations of corruption in connection with the Caso belt against representatives of the People's Party in Toledo became known. In October 2013 a preliminary investigation into suspected illegal party funding was opened at the Madrid Supreme Court. It was about a donation of 200,000 euros for the 2007 autonomous elections in Castile-La Mancha, in which Cospedal was the top candidate of the PP. The accused were employees of the city of Toledo. They are said to have received the donation from a subsidiary of the Sacyr company and passed it on to the party. In return, the was to the spain wide operating companies for 10 years behalf of the waste disposal of the city of Toledo has been awarded. María Dolores de Cospedal protested against allegations of personal involvement in these processes by filing a defamation suit against Luis Bárcenas, the former treasurer of the PP, which was the focus of the belt affair , which was rejected at the beginning of December 2013. Cospedal waived the right to appeal because, in her opinion, the course of the proceedings had made it sufficiently clear that the allegations made against her personally were inaccurate or unproven.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Ralf Streck: Spanish head of government overthrown for the first time with Rajoy. June 2, 2018, accessed June 2, 2018 .
  2. ^ Teodoro García Egea, secretario general 2.0. El País , July 30, 2018, accessed November 9, 2018 (Spanish)
  3. ↑ Hans-Christian Rößler: The sewers of the Spanish state. FAZ.NET , November 7, 2018, accessed on November 9, 2018
  4. ↑ Ralf Streck: Spanish Swamp: Whom does it hit next? Telepolis , November 8, 2018, accessed the same day
  5. ↑ Desestimada la demanda contra de Cospedal Bárcenas por derecho al honor. Reuters report, December 5, 2013, accessed October 2017.
personal data
SURNAME Cospedal García, María Dolores de
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Cospedal, María Dolores de
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Spanish politician
DATE OF BIRTH December 13, 1965
PLACE OF BIRTH Madrid