Cristina Cifuentes

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