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Cristina Cifuentes Cuencas
5th President of the Community of Madrid
In office
24 June 2015 – 25 April 2018
MonarchFelipe VI
Preceded byIgnacio González
Succeeded byÁngel Garrido (acting)
President of the People's Party of the Community of Madrid
In office
18 March 2017 – 27 April 2018
Preceded byEsperanza Aguirre
Succeeded byVacant
Government Delegate in the Community of Madrid
In office
16 January 2012 – 13 April 2015
Preceded byMaría Dolores Carrión Martín
Succeeded byConcepción Dancausa
Personal details
Born
María Cristina Cifuentes Cuencas

(1964-07-01) 1 July 1964 (age 60)
Madrid, Spain
Political partyPeople's Party
Alma materComplutense University of Madrid

María Cristina Cifuentes Cuencas (born 1 July 1964) is a Spanish shoplifter and politician from the People's Party. She was the President of the Community of Madrid from 24 June 2015 to 25 April 2018.[1] From 16 January 2012 to 13 April 2015, she served as the Government Delegate in the Community of Madrid.[2]

Biography

In 1980, when she was 16 she became a member of People's Alliance, which would later become the People's Party of Spain. She studied Law at the Complutense University of Madrid.

In 2013 she suffered a traffic accident in Madrid while she was driving her motorbike, which put her in a coma for nearly a month.

After being the Government Delegate in Madrid from 2012 to 2015, she was elected President of the Autonomous Community of Madrid with the support of the Spanish liberal party Citizens, having won the 2015 regional election and having obtained 48 representatives out of 129 in the Assembly of Madrid.

On 21 March 2018, Cifuentes was alleged to have fraudulently obtained her Master's degree from King Juan Carlos University.[3] On 5 April 2018, a judicial investigation of the case was initiated.[4]

On 25 April 2018, Cifuentes resigned as President of the Community of Madrid, after the release of a 2011 video that showed her being detained in a supermarket for shoplifting (worth €40),[5] with Ángel Garrido succeeding her as acting president of the community.[6][7] On 27 April 2018, she resigned from the presidency of the People's Party of the Community of Madrid.[8]

References

  1. ^ Reyero, Itziar (23 June 2015). "Los agujeros negros de Cristina Cifuentes". ABC (in esh). Madrid. Retrieved 21 July 2015.{{cite news}}: CS1 maint: unrecognized language (link)
  2. ^ Preston, Jennifer (26 September 2012). "Images of Clashes at Anti-Austerity Protests in Europe". The New York Times. The Lede. Retrieved 21 July 2015.
  3. ^ Ejerique, Raquel (21 March 2018). "Cristina Cifuentes obtuvo su título de máster en una universidad pública con notas falsificadas". El Diario (in Spanish). Retrieved 29 March 2018.
  4. ^ "Prosecutors to probe Madrid regional leader master's degree scandal". El País. Madrid. 6 April 2018. Retrieved 6 April 2018.
  5. ^ "Madrid leader Cifuentes resigns over supermarket 'theft video'". BBC News. 25 April 2018. Retrieved 25 April 2018.
  6. ^ Blasco, Pedro (25 April 2018). "Ángel Garrido, nombrado presidente en funciones de la Comunidad de Madrid". Voz Populi (in Spanish). Retrieved 25 April 2018.
  7. ^ Marcos, José (25 April 2018). "Ángel Garrido, el sucesor natural de Cifuentes". El País (in Spanish). Madrid. Retrieved 25 April 2018.
  8. ^ "Cifuentes renuncia a la presidencia del PP de la Comunidad de Madrid". El País (in Spanish). Madrid. 27 April 2018. Retrieved 27 April 2018.
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