Carmen Moriyón

Carmen Moriyón
Mayor of Gijón
Assumed office
17 June 2023
Preceded byAna González
In office
11 June 2011 – 15 June 2019
Preceded byPaz Fernández Felgueroso
Succeeded byAna González
Personal details
Born (1966-10-25) 25 October 1966 (age 58)
Gijón, Spain
Political partyAsturias Forum
Alma materUniversity of Oviedo
Autonomous University of Madrid
OccupationSurgeon and politician

María del Carmen Moriyón Entrialgo (born 25 October 1966[1]), is a Spanish surgeon and politician.

She headed the list of Asturias Forum to the mayor of Gijón in the municipal elections of Spain in 2011, getting 9 councilors and becoming the first non-socialist mayor of Gijón since the 1979 elections thanks to the support of the Popular Party in the investiture.[2][3]

Carmen Moriyón is the daughter of Maximino Moriyón Álvarez and Margarita Entrialgo Álvarez, and widow of José Ramón Rodríguez-Galindo González a surgeon who died in 2009.[4]

She studied at the College of the Holy Angel of the Guardian and the College of the Immaculate (promotion of 1984), and has a degree in Medicine and Surgery from the University of Oviedo (promotion of 1990) and specialist in Mastology from the Autonomous University of Madrid (2001).[5] She was responsible for the Breast Cancer Unit at the Cabueñes Hospital until her election as mayor.[6]

On 29 September 2018, Moriyón became president of the political party Asturias Forum.[7]

After being the mayor of Gijón from 2011 to 2019, in 2023 she was elected mayor again.[8]

References

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  1. ^ La Alcaldesa (in Spanish)
  2. ^ La izquierda pierde la mayoría tras 32 años y Carmen Moriyón apunta a la Alcaldía (in Spanish)
  3. ^ Carmen Moriyón, alcaldesa de Gijón con el apoyo del Partido Popular (in Spanish)
  4. ^ Vuelta al ruedo sin bisturí (in Spanish)
  5. ^ La doctora Carmen Moriyón será la candidata de Foro a la Alcaldía (in Spanish)
  6. ^ Carmen Moriyón (in Spanish)
  7. ^ "Carmen Moriyón, nueva presidenta de Foro Asturias" [Carmen Moriyón, new president of Asturias Forum] (in Spanish). La Nueva España. 29 September 2018. Retrieved 2 October 2018.
  8. ^ Paneque, Eduardo (2023-06-17). "Moriyón regresa a la Alcaldía con un gobierno tripartito de Foro, PP y Vox". El Comercio: Diario de Asturias (in Spanish). Retrieved 2023-06-17.