President of the Community of Madrid

The President of the Community of Madrid is the highest-ranking officer of the Autonomous Community of Madrid and the head of the Executive Branch. The office is currently held by Isabel Díaz Ayuso of the People's Party.

President of the Community of Madrid
Coat of arms of the Community of Madrid
Incumbent Isabel Díaz Ayuso since 14 August 2019
Style	Excelentisimo/a señor/a (The Most Excellent)
Nominator	Madrid Assembly
Term length	Four years
Inaugural holder	Joaquín Leguina
Formation	1983
Website	Comunidad de Madrid

Origins and election

The Royal Post Office is the current seat of the office of the President of Madrid

In the process of the democracy restoration in Spain between 1975–1978, the nationalist and regionalist parties pressed to grant home rule to parts of Spain. Finally, the Constitution stated that any province or group of provinces could form an autonomous community and thus be granted partial home rule. The Autonomous Community of Madrid (Spanish Comunidad Autónoma de Madrid) was created in 1982, and since then regional elections are held every 4 years.

The citizens of the Autonomous Communities of Spain do not elect a person for presidency of their community: but rather they elect the regional legislature, and that legislature elects the regional President. A candidate needs a majority (that is supposed to be loyal to him/her during the whole term) to be elected, but the top-voted party can be denied the right to form the government. This situation, though infrequent in nationwide elections, often happens in local/regional legislatures throughout Spain: the most usual coalition is between the Socialist Party (PSOE) and the United Left (IU).

In Madrid, such a coalition was formed in the 2nd term, in which the incumbent Socialist Joaquín Leguina obtained the most vote but not a majority,[1] once more in the 3rd term, allowing him to remain in office even after having obtained fewer votes than the People's Party (PP), and once more in the 6th term, by the PSOE candidate Rafael Simancas. However, this last coalition ultimately failed due to the dissidence of two PSOE Assembly Members, which denounced the pact with IU as being too wide and unrepresentative of the people's will due to the planned power balance. Elections were repeated after a few weeks and Partido Popular won, then by absolute majority.

Since then, the People's Party victories by absolute majority were repeated in 2007 and 2011's regional elections. After the resignation of President Esperanza Aguirre, nominally due to personal matters in late 2012, her deputy president Ignacio González González held the post. The People's Party obtained the most votes in 2015 but lost its absolute majority. Its candidate Cristina Cifuentes was invested President after an agreement with Citizens. She was replaced by her deputy Ángel Garrido when she resigned after evidence of both a fake master's degree and petty shoplifting came out.

List of officeholders

#	Portrait		Name (Birth–Death)	Term of office	Tenure (Years and days)	Party	Government	Legislature	Monarch (Reign)	^Ref.
1			Joaquín Leguina President of the Community of Madrid (born 1941)	14 June 1983 — 29 June 1995	12 years, 15 days	Spanish Socialist Workers' Party	Leguina I	I (1983)	Juan Carlos I (1975–2014)	[2] [3]
							Leguina II	II (1987)
							Leguina III	III (1991)
2			Alberto Ruiz-Gallardón President of the Community of Madrid (born 1958)	29 June 1995 — 14 June 2003 Acting until 20 November 2003	8 years, 144 days	People's Party	Gallardón I	IV (1995)		[4] [5]
							Gallardón II	V (1999)
								VI (May 2003)
3			Esperanza Aguirre President of the Community of Madrid (born 1952)	20 November 2003 — 17 September 2012 (resigned)[6]	8 years, 302 days	People's Party	Aguirre I	VII (Oct 2003)		[7] [8]
							Aguirre II	VIII (2007)
							Aguirre III	IX (2011)
4			Ignacio González President of the Community of Madrid (born 1960)	26 September 2012 Acting since 17 September 2012 — 24 June 2015	2 years, 280 days	People's Party	González			[9] [10] [11]
									Felipe VI (2014–present)
5			Cristina Cifuentes President of the Community of Madrid (born 1964)	24 June 2015 — 25 April 2018 (resigned)[12]	2 years, 304 days	People's Party	Cifuentes	X (2015)		[13] [14]
6			Ángel Garrido President of the Community of Madrid (born 1964)	21 May 2018 Acting since 25 April 2018 — 11 April 2019	2 years, 108 days	People's Party	Garrido			[15] [16]
'			Pedro Rollán Acting President of the Community of Madrid (born 1969)	Acting since 11 April 2019 — 17 August 2019	1 year, 122 days	People's Party	Garrido
7			Isabel Díaz Ayuso President of the Community of Madrid (born 1978)	17 August 2019 — Incumbent	363 days	People's Party	Ayuso	XI (2019)		[17]

Timeline from 1983

References

1. In fact, even the PSOE-IU coalition was in the minority (47 seats) against the centre-right parties PP and CDS (49), which however could not reach an agreement to rule. Once they did, a situation similar to the 6th term scandal arose, depriving those parties of the majority and allowing President Leguina to continue his minority government.
2. "Real Decreto 1620/1983, de 14 de junio, por el que se nombra Presidente de la Comunidad de Madrid a don Joaquín Leguina Herrán" (PDF). Boletín Oficial del Estado (in Spanish). Agencia Estatal Boletín Oficial del Estado (142): 16704. 15 June 1983. ISSN 0212-033X.
3. "Real Decreto 1097/1995, de 29 de junio, por el que se declara el cese de don Joaquín Leguina Herrán, como Presidente de la Comunidad de Madrid" (PDF). Boletín Oficial del Estado (in Spanish). Agencia Estatal Boletín Oficial del Estado (155): 19820. 30 June 1995. ISSN 0212-033X.
4. "Real Decreto 1098/1995, de 29 de junio, por el que se nombra Presidente de la Comunidad Autónoma de Madrid a don Alberto Ruiz-Gallardón Jiménez" (PDF). Boletín Oficial del Estado (in Spanish). Agencia Estatal Boletín Oficial del Estado (155): 19820. 30 June 1995. ISSN 0212-033X.
5. "Real Decreto 1426/2003, de 20 de noviembre, por el que se declara el cese de don Alberto Ruiz-Gallardón Jiménez como Presidente de la Comunidad de Madrid" (PDF). Boletín Oficial del Estado (in Spanish). Agencia Estatal Boletín Oficial del Estado (279): 41280. 21 November 2003. ISSN 0212-033X.
6. "Esperanza Aguirre dimite". El País (in Spanish). 17 September 2012. Retrieved 25 April 2018.
7. "Real Decreto 1427/2003, de 20 de noviembre, por el que se nombra Presidenta de la Comunidad de Madrid a doña Esperanza Aguirre Gil de Biedma" (PDF). Boletín Oficial del Estado (in Spanish). Agencia Estatal Boletín Oficial del Estado (279): 41280. 21 November 2003. ISSN 0212-033X.
8. "Real Decreto 1360/2012, de 26 de septiembre, por el que se declara el cese de doña Esperanza Aguirre Gil de Biedma como Presidenta de la Comunidad de Madrid" (PDF). Boletín Oficial del Estado (in Spanish). Agencia Estatal Boletín Oficial del Estado (233): 68729. 27 September 2012. ISSN 0212-033X.
9. "Ignacio González asume la presidencia en funciones de la Comunidad de Madrid". El Periódico de Catalunya (in Spanish). 17 September 2012. Retrieved 25 April 2018.
10. "Real Decreto 1361/2012, de 26 de septiembre, por el que se nombra Presidente de la Comunidad de Madrid a don Jaime Ignacio González González" (PDF). Boletín Oficial del Estado (in Spanish). Agencia Estatal Boletín Oficial del Estado (233): 68730. 27 September 2012. ISSN 0212-033X.
11. "Real Decreto 532/2015, de 24 de junio, por el que se declara el cese de don Jaime Ignacio González González como Presidente de la Comunidad de Madrid" (PDF). Boletín Oficial del Estado (in Spanish). Agencia Estatal Boletín Oficial del Estado (151): 52630. 25 June 2015. ISSN 0212-033X.
12. "Cristina Cifuentes dimite como presidenta de la Comunidad de Madrid". eldiario.es (in Spanish). 25 April 2018. Retrieved 28 April 2018.
13. "Real Decreto 533/2015, de 24 de junio, por el que se nombra Presidenta de la Comunidad de Madrid a doña Cristina Cifuentes Cuencas" (PDF). Boletín Oficial del Estado (in Spanish). Agencia Estatal Boletín Oficial del Estado (151): 52631. 25 June 2015. ISSN 0212-033X.
14. "Real Decreto 234/2018, de 27 de abril, por el que se declara el cese de doña Cristina Cifuentes Cuencas como Presidenta de la Comunidad de Madrid" (PDF). Boletín Oficial del Estado (in Spanish). Agencia Estatal Boletín Oficial del Estado (103): 46605. 28 April 2018. ISSN 0212-033X.
15. "El portavoz Ángel Garrido asume la presidencia de la Comunidad de Madrid en funciones". eldiario.es (in Spanish). 25 April 2018. Retrieved 25 April 2018.
16. "Real Decreto 329/2018, de 18 de mayo, por el que se nombra Presidente de la Comunidad de Madrid a don Ángel Garrido García" (PDF). Boletín Oficial del Estado (in Spanish). Agencia Estatal Boletín Oficial del Estado (122): 52610. 19 May 2018. ISSN 0212-033X.
17. "Real Decreto 495/2019, de 16 de agosto, por el que se nombra Presidenta de la Comunidad de Madrid a doña Isabel Natividad Díaz Ayuso" (PDF). Boletín Oficial del Estado (in Spanish). Vol. 2019 no. 197. Madrid, Spain: Government of Spain. 17 August 2019. p. 92201. Retrieved 17 August 2019.