Carmen Moriyón | |
Office: | Mayor of Gijón |
Term Start: | 17 June 2023 |
Predecessor: | Ana González |
Term Start1: | 11 June 2011 |
Term End1: | 15 June 2019 |
Predecessor1: | Paz Fernández Felgueroso |
Successor1: | Ana González |
Birth Date: | 25 October 1966 |
Birth Place: | Gijón, Francoist Spain |
Birth Name: | María del Carmen Moriyón Entrialgo |
Party: | Asturias Forum |
Occupation: | Surgeon and politician |
Alma Mater: | University of Oviedo Autonomous University of Madrid |
María del Carmen Moriyón Entrialgo (born 25 October 1966)[1] is a Spanish surgeon 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]