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Ángeles Muñoz Uriol: Mayor of Marbella
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By h.b. - Nov 3, 2007 - 5:17 PM

Ángeles Muñoz, the Mayor of Marbella - Photo Ayuntamiento de Marbella

Ángeles Muñoz took up the post of Mayor of Marbella following the local elections to replace the Management Committee installed in the town after the Malaya corruption case come to light

Born in Córdoba on 20th January 1960, Ángeles Muñoz Uriol graduated in medicine from Córdoba University in 1983 and is married with two children.

This Partido Popular politician who took on the mantle of Mayor of Marbella after her predecessor was arrested in the Malaya corruption case – followed by the dissolution of the Town Hall and its management handed over to a Management Committee - first entered politics in 1995, when she became Deputy Mayor of Benahavís.
She applied for a leave of absence from her profession as a doctor that same year to allow her to take up public office.

Muñoz was elected a Partido Popular member of the Andaluz Parliament in 1996, and was spokesperson on two parliamentary committees in the regional parliament: for women, and for health and consumers. She also became a member of the Partido Popular’s regional executive for Andalucía that year.
She resigned both both her seat in the regional parliament and from the council in Benahavís in 1997, to take up a position in Madrid, in the Ministry of Employment and Social Affairs, where, until 1999, she was General Director of Migration Planning during the first legislature of the Partido Popular government led by José María Aznar.
She was elected President of the local PP branch for Marbella-San Pedro in 1998.

Muñoz became a member of the Partido Popular’s National Executive when she was elected Executive Secretary for Social Affairs at the party’s National Congress held in January 1999, and, the following year, successfully stood for election to Congress, when she was returned as a Partido Popular member for Madrid.
She was spokesperson in Congress for Social Affairs and Migratory Policy during that legislature, and was confirmed in her position as the party’s Executive Secretary for Social Affairs and Migratory Policy at the PP National Congress in January 2002.

Ángeles Muñoz Uriol first stood for election as the Partido Popular Mayor of Marbella in 2003, achieving a seat on the Council, but losing the Mayor’s office to Julián Muñoz, who won an absolute majority for the GIL Party.
Her namesake was ousted in a motion of censure just a few months later, in August 2003, and his colleague in the GIL Party, Marisol Yagüe, became the new Mayor.

Ángeles Muñoz had, two months earlier, decided to decided to leave her responsibilities in national party leadership, to concentrate on her duties as the Partido Popular spokesperson in Marbella.

She stood for Congress again in the 2004 general election, when she was returned as a member of parliament for Málaga.

Muñoz and all the other councillors lost their seats on Marbella Council when the Town Hall was dissolved after the Operation Malaya corruption scandal broke in March 2006, when the then-Mayor, Marisol Yagüe, was one of those taken into custody in the case.
The new Management Committee established to run the town was sworn in to start its work in April 2006, and remained in place until the people of Marbella voted in a new Mayor in the May 2007 municipal elections held across Spain.

Ángeles Muñoz Uriol, as the Partido Popular’s candidate for the second time as Mayor of Marbella, achieved an absolute majority on the Council, with 16 seats over the opposition’s 11.
She was officially sworn in as the new Mayor of Marbella on 16th June 2007, saying in her investiture speech that her government would be marked by ‘honesty, efficiency and transparency’ and would be ‘implacable against any type of irregularity.’

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