Bruno García de León (born 14 July 1979) is a Spanish People's Party (PP) politician. He was elected mayor of

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in 2023. He had previously been a councillor in the same city (2007–2019) and a member of the Parliament of Andalusia (2019–).

Biography

García was born in Jerez de la Frontera and grew up in his father's hometown of

Sanlúcar de Barrameda Sanlúcar de Barrameda (), or simply Sanlúcar, is a city in the northwest of Cádiz province, part of the autonomous community of Andalucía in southern Spain. Sanlúcar is located on the left bank at the mouth of the Guadalquivir River oppos ...

in the Bay of Cádiz. As a child, he watched television broadcasts of the

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. He graduated in law from the

Complutense University of Madrid The Complutense University of Madrid ( es, Universidad Complutense de Madrid; UCM, links=no, ''Universidad de Madrid'', ''Universidad Central de Madrid''; la, Universitas Complutensis Matritensis, links=no) is a public research university loca ...

. García was first elected to

City Hall in 2007, serving as the councillor responsible for tourism in the People's Party (PP) government of mayor

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; from 2011 his responsibilities expanded to economic development. From 2015, he sat in the opposition as the left-wing mayor

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"Kichi" presided. In the

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, García was fifth on the PP's list in the Cádiz constituency, from which three were elected. In February 2019, he took the seat vacated by his cousin Ana Mestre who became the delegate of the

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in the province. In April 2021, he succeeded her as leader of the PP in the province. In the

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, García was re-elected as number two behind Mestre on the PP list in Cádiz. In January 2023, he was confirmed as the party's candidate for mayor of Cádiz in the May local elections. He recovered the city for his party after eight years in opposition, gaining eight seats to take 14 of 27 available.

References

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