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.

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,<ref name="leguina2nd">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.</ref> 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 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

Governments:

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Portrait	Name Template:Small	Term of office			Party		Government Template:Small	Election	Monarch Template:Small	Template:Abbr
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	Joaquín Leguina Template:Small	Template:Smaller 1983	Template:Smaller 1987	Template:Age in years and days	rowspan="3" width="1" style="color:inherit;background:Template:Party color;"|	PSOE	Leguina I Template:Small	1983	Template:Small Juan Carlos I Template:Small	<ref>Template:Cite journal</ref> <ref>Template:Cite journal</ref> <ref>Template:Cite journal</ref> <ref>Template:Cite journal</ref>
		Template:Smaller 1987	Template:Smaller 1991		Leguina II Template:Small		1987
		Template:Smaller 1991	Template:Smaller 1995		Leguina III Template:Small		1991
	Alberto Ruiz-Gallardón Template:Small	Template:Smaller 1995	Template:Smaller 1999	Template:Age in years and days	rowspan="3" style="color:inherit;background:Template:Party color;"|	PP	Gallardón I Template:Small	1995		<ref>Template:Cite journal</ref> <ref>Template:Cite journal</ref> <ref>Template:Cite journal</ref>
		Template:Smaller 1999	Template:Smaller 2003		Gallardón II Template:Small		1999
							[[May 2003 Madrilenian regional election|Template:Small 2003]]
	Esperanza Aguirre Template:Small	Template:Smaller 2003	Template:Smaller 2007	Template:Age in years and days	rowspan="3" style="color:inherit;background:Template:Party color;"|	PP	Aguirre I Template:Small	[[May 2003 Madrilenian regional election|Template:Small 2003]]		<ref>Template:Cite journal</ref> <ref>Template:Cite journal</ref> <ref>Template:Cite journal</ref> <ref>Template:Cite news</ref> <ref>Template:Cite journal</ref>
		Template:Smaller 2007	Template:Smaller 2011		Aguirre II Template:Small		2007
		Template:Smaller 2011	Template:Smaller 2012 Template:Small		Aguirre III Template:Small		2011
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	Ignacio González Template:Small	Template:Smaller 2012	Template:Smaller 2015	Template:Age in years and days	rowspan="2" style="color:inherit;background:Template:Party color;"|	PP		González Template:Small		<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> <ref>Template:Cite journal</ref> <ref>Template:Cite journal</ref>
					Template:Small Felipe VI Template:Small
	Cristina Cifuentes Template:Small	Template:Smaller 2015	Template:Smaller 2018 Template:Small	Template:Age in years and days		style="color:inherit;background:Template:Party color;"|	PP	Cifuentes Template:Small	2015	<ref>Template:Cite journal</ref> <ref>Template:Cite news</ref> <ref>Template:Cite news</ref> <ref>Template:Cite journal</ref>
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	Ángel Garrido Template:Small	Template:Smaller 2018	Template:Smaller 2019 Template:Small	Template:Age in years and days	style="color:inherit;background:Template:Party color;"|	PP	Garrido Template:Small	<ref>Template:Cite journal</ref> <ref>Template:Cite news</ref> <ref>Template:Cite journal</ref>
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	Isabel Díaz Ayuso Template:Small	Template:Smaller 2019	Template:Smaller 2021	Template:Age in years and days	rowspan="3" style="color:inherit;background:Template:Party color;"|	PP	Ayuso I Template:Small	2019	<ref>Template:Cite journal</ref> <ref>Template:Cite journal</ref> <ref>Template:Cite journal</ref>
		Template:Smaller 2021	Template:Smaller 2023		Ayuso II Template:Small		2021
		Template:Smaller 2023	Incumbent		Ayuso III Template:Small		2023

Timeline

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