Soraya Sáenz de Santamaría

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Soraya Sáenz de Santamaría (2018)
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María Soraya Sáenz de Santamaría Antón (born June 10, 1971 in Valladolid ) is a Spanish politician of the Partido Popular . She was Deputy Prime Minister of the country in the Rajoy II cabinet until June 1, 2018, and thus acting head of government of the Catalonia region from October 2017 to May 2018 .

Background and political career

She studied law at the University of Valladolid and graduated in 1994. She then worked as a prosecutor in Castile and León , before entering politics in 1999 at the age of 27.

She has been a member of the Spanish Parliament since 2004 as a member of the Madrid Parliament . In 2008 she was the first woman to be elected spokeswoman for the Partido Popular. From December 2011 on, she was the first deputy head of government, government spokeswoman and presidential minister in the Rajoy cabinet . In the election campaign leading up to the 2015 parliamentary elections , she took on a leading role for her party; She has therefore already been seen by part of the media as Rajoy's successor at the head of the government. In the second Rajoy cabinet, formed in 2016 , she remained deputy prime minister , but gave up the office of government spokeswoman. She got the responsibility for the "territorial administrations", thus also for the relations with the regional governments.

During the constitutional crisis following the controversial Catalan independence referendum on October 1, 2017, she represented the line of her government and the king as the responsible minister . After the Catalan Parliament's declaration of independence, which is illegal under Spanish law, on October 27, 2017 and the subsequent dismissal of the Catalan government by the Spanish government, citing  Article 155 of the Spanish Constitution , Mariano Rajoy appointed Soraya Sáenz as acting president of the Catalan Generalitat until the Catalan autonomous elections announced for December 21, 2017, succeeding the deposed Carles Puigdemont . Her elected successor as President of Catalonia was on May 14, 2018, the independent independence supporter Quim Torra, who was elected to the regional parliament via the Junts per Catalunya list .

With the constructive no-confidence vote on June 1, 2018, the said Cortes Generales over the Rajoy government of her suspicions, whereupon the reign de Santa María ended up as vice president.

Private life

Sáenz de Santamaría has been married to José Iván Rosa Vallejo since 2005 and has one son.

Web links

Commons : Soraya Sáenz de Santamaría  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Antonio Jiménez Barca: Lista para la batalla. In: El País , April 6, 2008, accessed October 28, 2017 (Spanish).
  2. ^ Carlos E. Cué: Rajoy inicia la renovación del PP colocando a Sáenz de Santamaría como portavoz en el Congreso. In: El País , March 31, 2008, accessed October 28, 2017 (Spanish).
  3. ↑ Thomas Urban : You call it "La Merkel" . In: Süddeutsche Zeitung , November 30, 2015, accessed October 2017.
  4. ↑ Rajoy anuncia un Gobierno de lleno sorpresas. In: El Confidencial , November 3, 2016, accessed October 28, 2017 (Spanish).
  5. ↑ Santamaría considera que “causa sonrojo que Puigdemont le recuerde al Rey sus obligaciones”. In: La Vanguardia , October 4, 2017, retrieved on the same day (Spanish).
  6. ↑ Werner A. Perger: The emergency has begun. In: Die Zeit , October 28, 2017, retrieved on the same day.
  7. ↑ Puigdemont confidante Torra is the new President of Catalonia. Spiegel online from May 14, 2018
  8. ↑ Ralf Streck: Spanish head of government overthrown for the first time with Rajoy. June 2, 2018, accessed June 2, 2018 .
  9. ^ FJ Barroso: Soraya Sáenz de Santamaría da a luz a un niño. In: El País , November 11, 2011, accessed October 28, 2017 (Spanish).
personal data
SURNAME Sáenz de Santamaría, Soraya
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Sáenz de Santamaría Antón, María Soraya
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Spanish politician (PP)
DATE OF BIRTH June 10, 1971
PLACE OF BIRTH Valladolid , Spain