María del Carmen Moriyón Entrialgo (born 25 October 1966[1]), is a Spanish surgeon and politician.
Carmen Moriyón | |
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| Mayor of Gijón | |
| Assumed office 17 June 2023 | |
| Preceded by | Ana González |
| In office 11 June 2011 – 15 June 2019 | |
| Preceded by | Paz Fernández Felgueroso |
| Succeeded by | Ana González |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 25 October 1966 Gijón, Spain |
| Political party | Asturias Forum |
| Alma mater | University of Oviedo Autonomous University of Madrid |
| Occupation | 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 edit
- ^ La Alcaldesa (in Spanish)
- ^ La izquierda pierde la mayoría tras 32 años y Carmen Moriyón apunta a la Alcaldía (in Spanish)
- ^ Carmen Moriyón, alcaldesa de Gijón con el apoyo del Partido Popular (in Spanish)
- ^ Vuelta al ruedo sin bisturí (in Spanish)
- ^ La doctora Carmen Moriyón será la candidata de Foro a la Alcaldía (in Spanish)
- ^ Carmen Moriyón (in Spanish)
- ^ "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.
- ^ 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.