Esperanza Aguirre
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The Most Excellent Esperanza Aguirre GE, DBE |
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| 3rd President of Madrid | |
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In office 17 October 2003 – 17 September 2012 |
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| Preceded by | Alberto Ruiz-Gallardón |
| Succeeded by | Ignacio González González |
| President of the Senate | |
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In office 9 February 1999 – 16 October 2002 |
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| Preceded by | Juan Ignacio Barrero |
| Succeeded by | Juan José Lucas |
| Minister of Education, Culture and Sport | |
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In office 5 May 1996 – 19 January 1999 |
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| Prime Minister | José María Aznar |
| Preceded by |
Jerónimo Saavedra (Education) Carmen Alborch (Culture) |
| Succeeded by | Mariano Rajoy |
| Personal details | |
| Born |
Esperanza Aguirre y Gil de Biedma 3 January 1952 Madrid, Spain |
| Political party |
Liberal Union (1983-1984) Liberal Party (1984-1986) People's Alliance (1987–1989) People's Party (1989–present) |
| Spouse(s) | Fernando Ramírez de Haro |
| Children |
Fernando Álvaro |
| Alma mater | Complutense University |
| Website | Official website |
Esperanza Aguirre y Gil de Biedma, Countess of Murillo and Bornos, Grandee of Spain, DBE (Spanish pronunciation: [espeˈɾanθa aˈɣire]; born 3 January 1952) is a Spanish politician and a former President of Madrid. She was President of Madrid's People's Party and the first female politician to have held the office of President of the Senate and Minister of Education and Culture in Spanish democratic history.
Aguirre is a former member of Unión Liberal, Partido Liberal and Popular Alliance, which changed its name to Partido Popular (People's Party) in 1989. Since her early years she has been a member of the Club Liberal of Madrid, which was presided over by an economics professor at the Complutense University, Pedro Schwartz. Schwartz reportedly played an important role in the beginnings of Aguirre's political career: in 1983, he was the one to convince her, by then a civil servant, to stand in the Madrid local elections of that year for Schwartz's Liberal Union and become a councilwoman.
In 2016, Aguirre resigned from her position as regional party president, ostensibly due to the many corruption cases in the Madrid PP under her watch. She retained her position of opposition leader in the Madrid municipal government, and the overall maneuver was widely interpreted as a broadside against her party rival, Prime minister Mariano Rajoy.
Aguirre was born in Madrid into a family of high Spanish nobility, being the eldest daughter of José Luis Aguirre Borrell, a lawyer, and Piedad Gil de Biedma y Vega de Seoane, daughter of José Gil de Biedma, 3rd Count of Sepúlveda. She is a niece of the late Catalan poet, Jaime Gil de Biedma. She studied in the "La Asunción" School and in the British Council School of Madrid and earned a degree in Law in Complutense University (Madrid) in 1974. She is fluent in English and French.
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