Cristina Cifuentes facts for kids

Quick facts for kids Cristina Cifuentes
5th President of the Community of Madrid
In office 24 June 2015 – 25 April 2018
Monarch	Felipe VI
Preceded by	Ignacio González
Succeeded by	Ángel Garrido
President of the People's Party of the Community of Madrid
In office 18 March 2017 – 27 April 2018
Preceded by	Esperanza Aguirre
Succeeded by	Pío García-Escudero
Government Delegate in the Community of Madrid
In office 16 January 2012 – 13 April 2015
Preceded by	María Dolores Carrión Martín
Succeeded by	Concepción Dancausa
Member of the Assembly of Madrid
In office 20 June 1991 – 16 January 2012
Personal details
Born	María Cristina Cifuentes Cuencas (1964-07-01) 1 July 1964 (age 60) Madrid, Spain
Political party	People's Party (1989‐2019)
Other political affiliations	People's Alliance (1980–1989)
Spouse	Francisco Javier Aguilar Viyuela
Children	2
Alma mater	Complutense University of Madrid

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

Biography

In 1980, when Cifuentes 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 riding her motorbike, which put her in a coma for nearly a month.

After being the Government Delegate in Madrid from 2012 to 2015, Cifuentes was elected President of the Autonomous Community of Madrid with the support of the centre-right Spanish 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. On 5 April 2018, a judicial investigation of the case was opened.

On 25 April 2018, she 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 (goods worth €40), with Ángel Garrido succeeding her as acting president of the community. On 27 April 2018, she resigned from the presidency of the People's Party of the Community of Madrid. On 8 May 2018, Cifuentes resigned from her seat in the Assembly of Madrid and announced her retirement from politics.

On 2 September 2019 the Audiencia Nacional charged Cifuentes together with fellow former regional premiers Ignacio González and Esperanza Aguirre with alleged crimes of illicit funding, diversion of public money and document forgery in the proceedings of the Púnica corruption case.

As of October 2019, she appeared in the television program Ya es mediodía as a panelist, and in February 2020, she was signed on Todo es mentira.

Electoral history

Electoral history of Cristina Cifuentes

Election	List	Constituency	List position	Result
European Parliament election, 1987	AP	Spain	57th (out of 60)	N Not elected
1991 Madrilenian regional election	PP	Community of Madrid	46th (out of 101)	Y Elected
European Parliament election, 1994	PP	Spain	60th (out of 64)	N Not elected
1995 Madrilenian regional election	PP	Community of Madrid	16th (out of 103)	Y Elected
1999 Madrilenian regional election	PP	Community of Madrid	17th (out of 102)	Y Elected
May 2003 Madrilenian regional election	PP	Community of Madrid	20th (out of 111)	Y Elected
October 2003 Madrilenian regional election	PP	Community of Madrid	20th (out of 111)	Y Elected
2007 Madrilenian regional election	PP	Community of Madrid	13th (out of 120)	Y Elected
2011 Madrilenian regional election	PP	Community of Madrid	13th (out of 129)	Y Elected
2015 Madrilenian regional election	PP	Community of Madrid	1st (out of 129)	Y Elected

See also

In Spanish: Cristina Cifuentes para niños