Carlos Martínez Mínguez (born 28 June 1973) is a politician of the
Spanish Socialist Workers' Party
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(PSOE). He was elected to the city council in
Soria
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in 1999 and has served as mayor since 2007. He was a member of the
Cortes of Castile and León
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Soria
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in
Castile and León
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, Martínez was elected onto his hometown's council in 1999, serving in the administration of mayor Eloísa Álvarez in a coalition government of their
Spanish Socialist Workers' Party
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(PSOE) and two other parties. In 2003, the People's Party (PP) won the mayor's office, and Martínez led the opposition; he was simultaneously a member of the
Cortes of Castile and León
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In 2007, 34-year-old Martínez became the youngest mayor of a provincial capital of Castile and León. Having led a
minority government
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in his first term, he won an absolute majority of seats on the council in 2011, retaining it in three further elections despite the emergence of third parties such as Podemos and
Citizens
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in the
2015 elections
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In 2012, Martínez was a spokesperson for
Carme Chacón
Carme Maria Chacón Piqueras (; March 13, 1971April 9, 2017) was a Spanish lawyer, lecturer and politician who was minister of Defence from 2008 to 2011 in the cabinet led by Spanish Prime Minister José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero.
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's unsuccessful campaign for the position of secretary generalat the PSOE federal congress.
Five years later
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Pedro Sánchez
Pedro Sánchez Pérez-Castejón (; born 29 February 1972) is a Spanish politician who has served as Prime Minister of Spain since 2018. He has also been Secretary-General of the Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE) since July 2017, having p ...
.Luis Tudanca resigned as leader of the Socialist Party of Castile and León in January 2025 and Martínez succeeded him. He was the only candidate, and new PSOE statutes meant that an unopposed candidate did not need a threshold of signatures or to contest a primary election.