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Cristina Coto de la Mata (born 6 March 1970) is a Spanish politician who was president of the Asturias Forum (2015–2018) and was a deputy in the General Junta of the Principality of Asturias (2003–2011; 2012–2018) and in the Oviedo City Council (2011–2019). Prior to being elected to office, she was a lawyer and a People's Party regional official.
Cristina Coto | |
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President of Asturias Forum | |
In office 14 March 2015 – 15 June 2018 | |
Preceded by | Francisco Álvarez-Cascos |
Succeeded by | Carmen Moriyón |
Member of the General Junta of the Principality of Asturias | |
In office 2003–2011 | |
In office 2012–2018 | |
Member of Oviedo City Council | |
In office 2011–2019 | |
Personal details | |
Born | Sotrondio, Asturias, Spain | 6 March 1970
Political party | People's Party (fl. 1994–2011) Asturias Forum (2011–after 2018) Vox (fl. 2019–present) |
Spouse | José Bernardo Pino (m. 2016) |
Alma mater | University of Oviedo University of Barcelona |
Cristina Coto de la Mata was born on 6 March 1970 in Sotrondio, a small town in Asturias.[1] Her father Jesus Coto (1939/1940 – 15 November 2021) was a bank manager who worked for Banco Popular Español.[1][2] She was educated at the University of Oviedo (where she studied law) and the University of Barcelona (where she got a Master's Degree in Organizational Communication Management).[1][3] She practiced law from 1998 until 2003.[3]
In 1994, Coto joined the New Generations of the People's Party, the youth wing of the People's Party (PP).[3] In 1999, she became the party's secretary of municipal organization.[3] In 2002, she was appointed as the PP's organization coordinator for Asturias.[3] She was elected deputy of the party's parliamentary group in the General Junta of the Principality of Asturias after the 2003 Asturian regional election.[3] She was re-elected to the parliamentary group after the 2007 election.[4]
On 3 February 2011, Coto resigned from the General Junta; she also left the PP to join the Asturias Forum, a recently-created regional party founded by former PP Secretary-General (and later President of the Principality of Asturias) Francisco Álvarez-Cascos.[5] The party later gained control of the Asturias government after the 2011 Asturian regional election, and Coto returned to the General Junta as a member of the Forum; she was also one of the two secretaries of the 8th General Junta of the Principality of Asturias.[6] Coto was appointed as the party's parliamentary spokesperson in November 2011.[7] She was later re-elected to Asturias Forum's parliamentary group in the 2012 and 2015 Asturian regional elections.[8][9]
In February 2015, Álvarez-Cascos resigned as president of Asturias Forum.[10] Coto was elected as the party's new president in a congress held on 14 March 2015.[11] On 15 June 2018, she resigned as president of the Forum, due to differences with the leadership, and as leader of the Forum's General Junta parliamentary group.[12] She resigned from the General Junta on 27 June.[9]
In January 2019, Coto was announced as the Vox candidate for mayor of Oviedo in the 2019 Spanish local elections.[13] She was one of the two councillors elected to Oviedo City Council .[14] In the 2023 Spanish local elections, she was not re-appointed as a Vox candidate for mayor or as a candidate on the council's electoral lists.[15][16]
Coto was a contributor to the Asturian-language newspaper Les Noticies.[17]
In 2007, she filed a complaint against harassment against Luis Madiedo, a party official for the PP's Gijón division.[18] Madiedo was expelled from the party, and he was ordered by a local court to pay Coto 20 euros every day for 20 days and to comply with a restraining order towards Coto.[18]
On 8 October 2016, she married former rally driver José Bernardo Pino.[19]
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