Jesús Manuel Sánchez Cabrera (born 1 August 1982)[1] is a Spanish politician of the For Ávila (XAV) party. He was elected mayor of Ávila in 2019, having been the President of the Provincial Deputation of Ávila from 2015 to 2019, as a member of the People's Party (PP).
Biography
editBorn in Ávila, Castile and León, Sánchez Cabrera studied Political and Administrative Sciences at the Complutense University of Madrid and worked in a bank from 2007 to 2015.[1] In 2011, he was elected to the town council in Padiernos in the Province of Ávila, and into the Provincial Deputation. Four years later, he was installed as president of the deputation in a surprise move, as the designated candidate of the People's Party (PP) was Pablo Luis Gómez, a councillor in the provincial capital.[2]
In December 2018, Sánchez Cabrera announced that he would not be the PP candidate for mayor of Ávila in the coming elections.[2] The following March, two months before the vote, he was announced as the candidate for For Ávila (XAV), a local split from the PP.[3] A motion of no confidence was then passed successfully against him in the provincial deputation, and he was succeeded by his former ally Carlos García González.[4] In June, he was invested as mayor as his party took 11 out of 25 seats and the PP took 6; he ended 28 years of PP control in the city.[5] He retained the exact amount of seats in 2023, choosing to preside over a minority government in dialogue with all opposition parties.[6]
References
edit- ^ a b "Jesús Manuel Sánchez Cabrera". Cadena COPE. Retrieved 28 August 2022.
- ^ a b "Jesús Manuel Sánchez Cabrera no será candidato a la alcaldía de Ávila" [Jesús Manuel Sánchez Cabrera will not be the candidate for mayor of Ávila] (in Spanish). Cadena SER. 22 December 2018. Retrieved 28 August 2022.
- ^ "Sánchez Cabrera será candidato de "Por Ávila" al Ayuntamiento de la capital" [Sánchez Cabrera will be "For Ávila" candidate for mayor of the capital]. ABC (in Spanish). 1 March 2019. Retrieved 28 August 2022.
- ^ "Carlos García, nuevo presidente de la Diputación de Ávila tras prosperar la moción de censura contra Sánchez Cabrera" [Carlos García, new president of the Deputation of Ávila after the motion of no confidence against Sánchez Cabrera carries]. La Vanguardia (in Spanish). Europa Press. 27 March 2019. Retrieved 28 August 2022.
- ^ "Sánchez Cabrera, nuevo alcalde de Ávila" [Sánchez Cabrera, new mayor of Ávila]. El Español (in Spanish). 15 June 2019. Retrieved 28 August 2022.
- ^ "Sánchez Cabrera repite al frente del Ayuntamiento de Ávila por mayoría simple" [Sánchez Cabrera again in charge of Ávila City Council in plurality]. El Norte de Castilla (in Spanish). 17 June 2023. Retrieved 2 July 2023.