María Eugenia Carballedo Berlanga (born 4 September 1971) is a Spanish politician from the People's Party (PP), serving as a president of the Assembly of Madrid since 2021.

Eugenia Carballedo
Eugenia Carballedo
11th President of the Assembly of Madrid
In office
8 June 2021 – 13 june 2023
Vice PresidentJorge Rodrigo
Preceded byJuan Trinidad
Succeeded byEnrique Ossorio
Minister of Sports and Transparency of the Community of Madrid
In office
11 March 2021 – 8 June 2021
MonarchFelipe VI
PresidentIsabel Díaz Ayuso
Preceded byIgnacio Aguado
Succeeded byMarta Rivera de la Cruz
Minister of the Presidency of the Community of Madrid
In office
20 August 2019 – 8 June 2021
MonarchFelipe VI
PresidentIsabel Díaz Ayuso
Preceded byPedro Rollán
Succeeded byEnrique Ossorio (acting)
Member of the Congress of Deputies
In office
13 May 2008 – 6 June 2011
ConstituencyMadrid
Member of the Assembly of Madrid
Assumed office
7 June 2011
Personal details
Born
María Eugenia Carballedo Berlanga

(1971-09-04) 4 September 1971 (age 53)
Madrid, Spain
Political partyPP
Alma materComplutense University of Madrid

Biography

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Born in Madrid, Carballedo graduated in Law from the Complutense University of Madrid and obtained a Master's degree in European Law from KU Leuven.[1] Carballedo worked in the office of the Ombudsman before becoming PP's executive secretary of Justice.

In May 2008, Carballedo was designated to fill the seat of Eduardo Zaplana in the Congress of Deputies after he resigned to join the board of directors of Telefónica.[2] She didn't revalidate her seat in the X Legislature, instead opting to run in the 2011 Madrilenian regional election, as 29th in the PP party list.[3] She was elected, and in 2014 she was named Deputy Minister of Employment of the regional government.

She was her party's nominee for mayor of Leganés in the 2015 municipal elections but didn't take possession after losing half of the council seats obtained in the 2011 election.[4]

After the 2019 election, she was elevated to the post of Cabinet Minister of the Presidency of the Community of Madrid, also taking over as acting Cabinet Minister of Sports and Transparency in March 2021, following the expulsion of the Ciudadanos cabinet members from the government.[5][6][7]

Following the dissolution of the Assembly and the 2021 snap election, Carballedo was elected President of the chamber with the support of Vox.

She was elected to the 15th Congress of Deputies in the 2023 Spanish general election from Madrid.[8]

References

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  1. ^ "Asamblea de Madrid. Ficha del diputado". 2023-04-30. Archived from the original on 2023-04-30. Retrieved 2023-04-30.
  2. ^ "María Eugenia Carballedo sustituirá a Zaplana en el Congreso". El Confidencial (in Spanish). 29 April 2008. Retrieved 1 May 2023.
  3. ^ "Candidaturas Madrid 2011" (PDF).
  4. ^ "LEGANÉS / Carballedo (PP) renuncia a su acta de concejal". Noticias Para Municipios (in Spanish). 11 June 2015. Retrieved 1 May 2023.
  5. ^ "Tres mujeres y diez hombres en el gobierno de Díaz Ayuso". El País (in Spanish). Madrid. 20 August 2019. Retrieved 11 March 2021.
  6. ^ "Los 13 de Ayuso". Cadena SER (in Spanish). Madrid. 20 August 2019. Retrieved 11 March 2021.
  7. ^ "Los consejeros del PP asumen las competencias de las áreas que pertenecían a Ciudadanos" (in Spanish). Europa Press. 10 March 2021. Retrieved 11 March 2021.
  8. ^ "Comunidad de Madrid dice que el Gobierno también contrató a Quirón y que la Comunidad "no renunciará a ninguna opción"". Europa Press. 2020-08-11. Retrieved 2023-08-18.