Carmina Belmonte Useros

Carmen "Carmina" Belmonte Useros (born 1950) is a Spanish academic and former politician. As a member of the Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE), she was the mayor of Albacete from 1991 to 1995, the first democratically elected woman mayor of a provincial capital in Spain.

Biography Belmonte was born in Albacete in Castilla–La Mancha. Her mother was the ethnologist Carmina Useros and her sister was the soprano . She studied philosophy at the University of Valencia and gained a doctorate in pedagogy. She taught in Hellín and Albacete, and in 1988 was given the office of professor at the within the University of Castilla–La Mancha. As of 2025, she was professor of French philology. She has two daughters.

During the Spanish transition to democracy, Belmonte had been a member of the People's Socialist Party (PSP). During her mandate, Belmonte introduced a councillor responsible for women's affairs. In the same 1991 elections, Rita Barberá became mayor of Valencia and mayor of Guadalajara, but their inaugurations were delayed by the need to form coalition governments in those city halls.