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Ana Botella Serrano
Mayor of Madrid
Incumbent
Assumed office 27 December 2011
Preceded by	Manuel Cobo (Caretaker)
Personal details
Born	(1954-07-23) July 23, 1954 (age 57) Madrid, Spain
Nationality	Spanish
Political party	People's Party
Spouse(s)	José Maria Aznar
Children	3
Residence	Madrid, Spain
Alma mater	Complutense University of Madrid
Profession	Public Servant, Lawyer
Religion	Roman Catholic

Ana Botella Serrano (born 23 July 1954 in Madrid) is a Spanish politician belonging to the Spanish People's Party and mayor of Madrid since December 2011. She has been on the Madrid City Council since 2003, where she has been Second Lieutenant Mayor and headed the Departments of Social Services (2003-2007) and of the Environment (2007-2011)^[1]

Mayor of Madrid[link]

In December 27 2011 was elected Mayor of Madrid, after the resignation of Alberto Ruiz-Gallardón, due to the latter being designated Minister of Justice. She is the first female Mayor of the city. She has been criticised for failure to tackle Madrid's air pollution which frequently exceeds permitted levels in the city.^[2]

Family life[link]

She is the wife of the former Spanish prime minister José María Aznar.

Ana Botella and José María Aznar married in 1977, and have three children: José María Aznar Botella, Ana Aznar Botella, and Alonso Aznar Botella. Their daughter married on 5 September 2002 Alejandro Tarik Agag Longo in a lavish ceremony at El Escorial.^[3] Ana Botella has four grandchildren, Alejandro (born 4 June 2004 in Madrid), Rodrigo (born 13 December 2005 in Madrid), Pelayo (born 20 January 2008 in Madrid) and Alonso (born 22 December 2010 in Madrid) Agag Aznar.^[4]

References[link]

Bibliography[link]

Botella, Ana Mis ocho años en La Moncloa

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David Ortega

Personal information
Born	20 July 1979
Medal record Men’s swimming Competitor for  Spain European Championships Gold 2000 Helsinki 100 m backstroke Bronze 2000 Helsinki 50 m backstroke Bronze 2004 Madrid 50 m backstroke Mediterranean Games Silver 2005 Almería 50 m backstroke Silver 2005 Almería 4×100 m medley Bronze 2005 Almería 100 m backstroke

David Ortega Pitarch (born 20 July 1979 in Castellón de la Plana, Castellón) is a freestyle and backstroke swimmer from Spain, who competed for his native country at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, Australia. Prior to that event he won the 100 m backstroke at the 2000 European Aquatics Championships in Helsinki, Finland.

References[link]

• Spanish Olympic Committee

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El Gran Wyoming
Birth name	José Miguel Monzón Navarro
Born	(1955-05-15) May 15, 1955 (age 57) Madrid, Spain
Medium	Television
Nationality	Spanish
Genres	Political satire
Notable works and roles	Host of El Intermedio

José Miguel Monzón, also known as El Gran Wyoming (English: The Great Wyoming) or Guayo is an actor, director and humorist; he is licensed in Medicine but not an M.D.. He was born in Madrid, Spain, in 1955.

He has been showman of several programs like Silencio se juega (1984), La noche se mueve (1992) and El peor programa de la semana (1993). Televisión Española refused to broadcast this last episode because of an interview with the writer Quim Monzó, in which a joke was made about the laboral activity of Elena de Borbón, the daughter of the King. The official reason given was the low ratings of the program.

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In 1995 el Guayo returned to TV, but this time he appeared on private channel Telecinco. The name of the program was Caiga quien caiga. He was firstly critical of Felipe Gonzalez's government and later against the government of that time, the Partido Popular.

In 2004 he obtained another program in Televisión Española: La Azotea de Wyoming. It was not completely successful.

Now he is doing El Intermedio on La Sexta.^[2]

Notes[link]

The Most Excellent The Countess of Murillo GE, DBE
3rd President of Madrid
Incumbent
Assumed office 17 October 2003
Monarch	Juan Carlos I
Preceded by	Alberto Ruiz-Gallardón
President of the Spanish Senate
In office 9 February 1999 – 16 October 2002
Preceded by	Juan Ignacio Barrero
Succeeded by	Juan José Lucas
Personal details
Born	Esperanza Aguirre y Gil de Biedma (1952-01-03) 3 January 1952 (age 60) Madrid, Spain
Nationality	Spanish
Political party	People's Party
Other political affiliations	Liberal Party People's Alliance
Spouse(s)	Fernando Ramírez de Haro, 15th Count of Murillo
Children	Fernando Ramírez de Haro, 10th Marquis of Villanueva del Duero Álvaro, 16th Count of Villariezo
Alma mater	Complutense University
Profession	Civil Servant
Website	www.esperanzaaguirre.org

Esperanza Aguirre y Gil de Biedma, Countess of Murillo, Grandee of Spain, DBE (born 3 January 1952) is a Spanish politician and the current President of Madrid. She is President of Madrid's People's Party and the first female politician to have held the office of President of the Senate and Minister of Education and Culture in Spanish democratic history.

Aguirre is a former member of Unión Liberal, Partido Liberal and Popular Alliance, which changed its name to Partido Popular (People's Party) in 1989. Since her early years she has been a member of the Club Liberal of Madrid, which was presided over by an economics professor at the Complutense University, Pedro Schwartz.^{[citation needed]} Schwartz reportedly played an important role in the beginnings of Aguirre's political career: in 1983, he was the one to convince her, by then a civil servant, to stand in the Madrid local elections of that year for Schwartz's Liberal Union and become a councilwoman.^[1]

Early years (1952-1974)[link]

Aguirre was born in Madrid into a family Spanish nobility, being the eldest daughter of José Luis Aguirre Borrell, a lawyer, and Piedad Gil de Biedma y Vega de Seoane, daughter of José Gil de Biedma, 3rd Count of Sepúlveda. She is a niece of the late Catalan poet, Jaime Gil de Biedma. She studied in the "La Asunción" School and in the British Council School of Madrid and earned a degree in Law in Complutense University (Madrid) in 1974. She is fluent in English and French.

Administrative career (1974-1982)[link]

Aguirre joined the Technical Division of the Ministry of Information and Tourism as a civil servant in 1976. She was head of the Department of Publicity and Tourism, where she remained until 1979. Subsequently, she had many different jobs in the Ministry of Culture, serving several Ministers during the Democratic Centre Union governments; especially designated by the Prime Minister himself. In 1979, she was chief of staff of the General Director of Literature and Cinematography. She was appointed Deputy General Director of Studies of the Technical General Secretariat of the Ministry of Culture in 1980. In 1981, she was appointed Deputy General Director in the Advisory Staff of the Secretary of State of Culture. Her last position with the Administration was as Deputy General Director of Cultural Associations.

Councillor of Madrid (1983-1996)[link]

Esperanza Aguirre first became a councillor with the defunct Coalición Popular, in which she was a member of the smaller Unión Liberal. Between 1983 and 1986 she held a seat on Madrid City Council as a member of Coalición Popular. While in opposition, she was a member of the Standing Committee of the City Council, a CP spokeswoman on the areas of Culture, Education, Youth and Sports Affairs, and the Moncloa district. When Unión Liberal merged with Partido Liberal, in December 1984, she held different positions in the National Executive and the Political Council of José Antonio Segurado's Partido Liberal.

In 1987 she left the Partido Liberal and joined Popular Alliance, which later became the People's Party. She was subsequently re-elected to the city council and continued in opposition until 1989, when a successful vote of no confidence ousted the socialist mayor Juan Barranco, which allowed the People's Party and Democratic and Social Centre to govern Madrid for the first time since the restoration of democracy in 1977. In the new local executive, she was designated head of the Department of the Environment.

In 1991, under José María Álvarez del Manzano, the People's Party won a council majority and Aguirre was again appointed to the Environment Department. Two years later, she was designated as Head of the Culture Department and controlled the areas of Sports, Education and Hygiene. In 1995 she became the spokeswoman of People's Party in Madrid City Council and was appointed by the City Council to the Caja Madrid Board of Governors.

Minister of Education, Culture and Sports (1996-1999)[link]

In the general election of 1996 she was the candidate for the Senate for Madrid of the People's Party, after her designation as a member of the National Executive Committee of the Party; and she became a senator. The then new President, José María Aznar, appointed her to be Minister of Education, Culture and Sports. She was succeeded in those posts in 1999 by Mariano Rajoy. During this period she became very famous because of sense of humour.

President of the Senate (1999-2002)[link]

Aguirre, a Senator since 1996, was elected President of the Senate in February 1999, the first woman to do so. In March 2000, she was re-elected Senator for Madrid, becoming the top-voted candidate in Spain with 1.55 million votes and 50.7% of the popular vote, a percentage record still unbroken.^[2] She resigned in 2002 to run for the Presidency of the Autonomous Community of Madrid in the regional Assembly elections of 2003. She was substituted as President of the Senate by Juan José Lucas.

President of the Community of Madrid (2003-)[link]

Esperanza Aguirre welcoming participants at the 2010 Horasis Global India Business Meeting.

First regional elections of 2003 and the dissenting deputies of PSOE[link]

When the regional elections took place in May 2003, the People's Party won a plurality of seats. The People's Party won 55 seats in the Madrid Assembly, being the only party of the right in the Assembly. On the left, PSOE won 47 seats and United Left won 9 seats, thus making it possible for a coalition of PSOE and IU to rule.

However, the election of a leftist coalition was not possible due to two dissenting deputies of the PSOE, Eduardo Tamayo and María Teresa Sáez, who refused to obey the party whip in the first two votes, the election of the speaker and the election of the president.^{[citation needed]} Most leftist politicians and several media organs accused Tamayo and Sáez of being bribed into breaking party discipline by prominent members of the PP, following accusations that the hotel rooms they were hiding in had been paid for by businessmen from the construction industry with links to the PP.^{[citation needed]} This theory was dismissed after a parliamentary investigation and was never proven.^{[citation needed]}

Esperanza Aguirre during May 2011 regional elections.

Second regional elections of 2003[link]

In October 2003, following the scandal of the dissenting deputies, the regional elections were rerun. The People's Party won a majority of seats, which enabled Aguirre to became President of Madrid.^{[citation needed]}

Aguirre's most important achievements in those years^[when?] were the reduction of surgery waiting times, the building of eight new hospitals and 87 new state schools (most of them bilingual), an increase in the investment for several scholarships of education, and the expansion of the Underground to suburban areas such as Pozuelo de Alarcón.^{[citation needed]}

Damehood[link]

In February 2004, Aguirre was appointed Honorary Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire. She is the first Spanish woman to date to have been awarded this honour.

Mumbai[link]

Aguirre was one of the many civilians trapped in the terrorist attacks in Mumbai on 26 November 2008, but she managed to escape unharmed.

Family[link]

Aguirre married in Madrid, on 1 January 1974, Fernando Ramírez de Haro, 15th Count of Murillo, Grandee of Spain, elder son of Ignacio Ramírez de Haro, 15th Count of Bornos, Grandee of Spain, and his wife Beatriz Valdés, 4th Marquise of Casa Valdés. They have two sons:

• Fernando Ramírez de Haro, 10th Marquis of Villanueva del Duero, Grandee of Spain, (b. 23 August 1976).

• Álvaro Ramírez de Haro, 16th Count of Villariezo, (b. 4 April 1980).

Ancestry[link]

References[link]

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