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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 | Gijón, Spain | 25 October 1966
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]
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