Esperanza Aguirre y Gil de Biedma (Spanish pronunciation: [espeˈɾanθa aˈɣire]; born 3 January 1952) is a Spanish politician. As member of the People's Party (PP), she served as President of the Senate between 1999 and 2002 (becoming the first female politician to have held the post), as President of the Community of Madrid between 2003 and 2012 and as Minister of Education and Culture (1996–1999). Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Esperanza Aguirre has received more than 177,864 page views. Her biography is available in 25 different languages on Wikipedia. Esperanza Aguirre is the 14,087th most popular politician (down from 13,123rd in 2019), the 1,436th most popular biography from Spain (down from 1,305th in 2019) and the 378th most popular Spanish Politician.
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Despite her unexpected resignation from her job as president of the Madrid region in September 2012, Esperanza Aguirre continues to be considered a heavy-weight in the ruling Partido Popular. She regards herself as a political liberal and is outspoken about her opinions, even when they upset other party members including the party leader Mariano Rajoy.
A countess by birth and grandee of Spain by marriage, Esperanza graduated in law and worked as an adviser in the ministry of Tourism until 1979. She became active in Madrid politics in the 1980s first in the small “Unión Liberal” party, joining the Alianza Popular (predecessor to the Partido Popular) in 1987. Her first political role was in opposition on the Madrid city council, moving on to be deputy mayor in 1995. In that year she was also appointed to the board of the Caja Madrid bank as Partido Popular representative. When the Partido Popular won the national elections in 1996, Esperanza was elected senator and also appointed minister of Education and Culture. In 1999 she became the first woman president of the Senat
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Esperanza Aguirre (3 January 1952-) was President of the Community of Madrid from 21 November 2003 to 26 September 2012, succeeding Alberto Ruiz-Gallardon and preceding Ignacio Gonzalez Gonzalez. She was a member of the People's Party of Spain.
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Esperanza Aguirre y Gil de Biedma was born in Madrid, Spain in 1952, and she was an early member of the Club Liberal de Madrid before standing in the 1983 Madrid local elections. Aguirre was a self-defined liberal who admired Margaret Thatcher, and she sought to combine conservatism and neoliberalism; Aguirre emerged as a leader of the People's Party of Spain's right-wing decades later. In 1987, she joined the Alianza Popular party, and she served as a Senator from 1996 to 2002 (and as President from 1999 to 2002), as a member of the Assembly of Madrid from 2003 to 2012, as Minister of Education, Culture, and Sport from 1996 to 1999, and as President of the Community of Madrid from 2003 to 2012. In 2012, she resigned due to health concerns, but she remained involved in local politics. On 2 September 2019, s