José Luis Martínez-Almeida

José Luis Martínez-Almeida Navasqüés (born 17 April 1975) is a Spanish state lawyer and politician. A member of the People's Party (PP), he has been a member of the Madrid City Council since 2015 and serves as Mayor of Madrid since 2019.

This article uses Spanish naming customs: the first or paternal family name is Martínez-Almeida and the second or maternal family name is Navasqüés.
José Luis Martínez-Almeida
Martínez-Almeida in August 2019
Mayor of Madrid
Assumed office
15 June 2019
DeputyBegoña Villacís
Preceded byManuela Carmena
Personal details
Born
José Luis Martínez-Almeida Navasqüés

(1975-04-17) 17 April 1975
Madrid, Spain
Political partyPeople's Party
Alma materComillas Pontifical University

Biography

Martínez-Almeida was born in Madrid on 17 April 1975. His grandfather Pablo Martínez-Almeida y Nacarino was a member of the Privy Council of the Count of Barcelona, he is the youngest of the six children of Rafael Martínez-Almeida y León y Castillo and Ángela Navasqüés Cobián.[1] He studied at the Retamar School in Pozuelo de Alarcón, linked to the Opus Dei.[2] He is single and a golf lover.

Martínez-Almeida affiliated to the People's Party (PP) when he was 20 years old,[3] and he earned a Licentiate degree in law at the ICADE (Comillas Pontifical University) in 1998.[3] In 2001, he joined the State Lawyers Corps.[4]

He served as Director-General for Historic Heritage of the Community of Madrid from 2007 to 2011. In 2011, Esperanza Aguirre, the region's premier, appointed him as Secretary of the Council of Government of the Community of Madrid. He left the regional government in 2013 in order to become a member of the General Secretariat and Council of state-owned enterprise SEPIDES (currently SEPI) as Secretary of the Law Division. He left this post in 2015.

Aguirre included Martínez-Almeida 3rd in the PP list for the 2015 Madrid municipal election and the later became municipal councillor. In 2017, as Aguirre resigned from her last offices following the detention of her political "dauphin" Ignacio González, Martínez-Almeida replaced her as Spokesperson of the PP's Municipal Group in the City Council.[5] His interventions as leader of the opposition made him widely known. [6]

In July 2018, he was appointed member of the National Executive Committee of the PP after the election of Pablo Casado as party leader.[7]

In January 2019 he was designated candidate of the PP to be the next Mayor of Madrid.[8]

Mayor of Madrid

He ran first in the PP list for the 2019 Madrid municipal election. Martínez-Almeida lost the council election against Manuela Carmena, Más Madrid, but due a coalition agreement among PP Popular Party, C's Citizens and Vox, he was invested as Mayor on 15 June 2019, during the opening session of the new municipal corporation.[9]

During the campaign, the PP pledged to get rid of one of the most characteristical measures by the previous municipal administration, the low emission zone Madrid Central.[10] As promised, on July 1,[11] the City Council led by Martínez-Almeida suspended the system for three months by ceasing to fine infractions. Environmental groups such as Greenpeace cut roads in protest.[12] However, a week later a court in Madrid restored the fines.[13]

During the COVID-19 sanitary crisis he received the support of an unified City Council.[14] His performance gained for him a record popularity among the citizens.[15][16] When the time arrived to re-start the normal activity of the country he was the first spanish political figure in achieving transversal agreements for the reconstruction.[17][18][19][20]

References
  1. Piñón, Manu (27 May 2019). "La conexión con la realeza de Martínez-Almeida, el próximo alcalde de Madrid". Vanity Fair (in Spanish). Retrieved 1 October 2019.
  2. Lantigua, Isabel F. (15 June 2019). "José Luis Martínez-Almeida, el alcalde optimista". El Mundo (in Spanish). Unidad Editorial Información General, S.L.U.
  3. "José Luis Martínez-Almeida, el valor del escalafón". Telemadrid (in Spanish). 7 May 2019. Retrieved 1 October 2019.
  4. "José Luis Martínez-Almeida, candidato del PP al Ayuntamiento de Madrid". Madridiario (in Spanish). 21 May 2019. Retrieved 1 October 2019.
  5. Belver, Marta (28 April 2017). "José Luis Martínez-Almeida, un abogado del Estado de verbo ágil para sustituir a Esperanza Aguirre". El Mundo (in Spanish). Unidad Editorial. Retrieved 15 June 2019.
  6. Y Redacción, Agencias (27 May 2019). "Martínez-Almeida, un 'colchonero' fan del 'cholismo' en el Palacio de Cibeles". La Vanguardia (in Spanish). Retrieved 27 May 2020.
  7. "Casado incorpora a Martínez Almeida, Díaz Ayuso, Vera y González Terol en el nuevo Comité Ejecutivo del PP". Europa Press. 26 July 2018. Retrieved 15 June 2019.
  8. G. Rivas, Tatiana; Medialdea, Sara (11 January 2019). "Isabel Díaz Ayuso y Martínez-Almeida, candidatos del PP a la Comunidad y al Ayuntamiento de Madrid". ABC (in Spanish). Vocento. Retrieved 15 June 2019.
  9. Rodríguez-Pina, Gloria; Mateo, Juan José (2019-06-15). "El popular Martínez Almeida, alcalde de Madrid con los votos de Ciudadanos y la ultraderecha". El País (in Spanish). ISSN 1134-6582. Retrieved 2019-06-15.
  10. Agencias, El Periódico / (2019-03-26). "Más Madrid apuesta por ampliar Madrid Central y el PP y Vox por eliminarlo". elperiodico (in Spanish). Retrieved 2019-07-27.
  11. Minder, Raphael (2019-07-01). "As Cities Limit Traffic Pollution, Madrid Reverses a Driving Ban". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2019-07-27.
  12. Objective, The. "Activistas de Greenpeace cortan el acceso al tráfico a Madrid Central". The Objective | Periodismo ethos (in Spanish). Retrieved 2019-07-27.
  13. Medina, Miguel Ángel; León, Pablo; País, El (2019-07-08). "On judge's orders, Madrid Central low-emissions scheme back in action". El País. ISSN 1134-6582. Retrieved 2019-07-27.
  14. De Vega, Luis/ (2020-04-18). "Más Madrid ofrece a Almeida su "apoyo total" ante la crisis". El País (in Spanish). Retrieved 2020-05-27.
  15. Martin, Anai. "Revolución en Madrid: un sondeo dispara a Ayuso y Almeida por su titánica labor". EsDiario (in Spanish). Retrieved 2020-05-27.
  16. Pardo, Liarla (2020-05-10). "La surrealista interrupción a la entrevista de Almeida en Liarla Pardo por aplausos al alcalde". La Sexta. Retrieved 2020-05-27.
  17. González, Yolanda. "Almeida pone en un aprieto a Casado y Ayuso con su pacto de reconstrucción en Madrid". infoLibre (in Spanish). Retrieved 2020-05-27.
  18. De Vega, Luis (2020-05-25). "El Gobierno municipal confirma que Vox se une al proceso de reconstrucción pese a tratar de vetar a Villacís". El País. Retrieved 2020-05-30.
  19. De Vega, Luis (2020-05-25). "El Ayuntamiento de Madrid se da un mes para consensuar con la oposición una salida a la crisis". El País. Retrieved 2020-05-30.
  20. De Vega, Luis (2020-05-29). "El Ayuntamiento aprueba sin votos en contra 66 millones de rebaja fiscal para afrontar la pandemia". El País. Retrieved 2020-05-30.
Political offices
Preceded by
Francisco Javier Hernández Martínez		 Director-General for Historical Heritage of the Community of Madrid
2007–2011		 Succeeded by
Laura Rivera García de Leániz
Preceded by
Manuela Carmena Castrillo		 Mayor of Madrid
Since 2019		 Succeeded by
Incumbent
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