Carmen Moriyón

María del Carmen Moriyón Entrialgo (born 25 October 1966[1]), is a Spanish surgeon and politician.

In this Spanish name, the first or paternal surname is Moriyón and the second or maternal family name is Entrialgo.
Carmen Moriyón Entrialgo
Mayor of Gijón
Assumed office
17 June 2023
Preceded byAna González
In office
11 June 2011 – 15 June 2019
Preceded byPaz Fernández Felgueroso
Succeeded byAna González
Personal details
Born (1966-10-25) 25 October 1966
Gijón, Spain
Political partyAsturias Forum
Alma materUniversity of Oviedo
Autonomous University of Madrid
OccupationSurgeon 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
  1. La Alcaldesa (in Spanish)
  2. La izquierda pierde la mayoría tras 32 años y Carmen Moriyón apunta a la Alcaldía (in Spanish)
  3. Carmen Moriyón, alcaldesa de Gijón con el apoyo del Partido Popular (in Spanish)
  4. Vuelta al ruedo sin bisturí (in Spanish)
  5. La doctora Carmen Moriyón será la candidata de Foro a la Alcaldía (in Spanish)
  6. Carmen Moriyón (in Spanish)
  7. "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.
  8. 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.
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