Carlos Sánchez Mato (born 1970) is a Spanish politician and economist. A member of United Left and the

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, he served as delegate of Economy and Finance in the city government board.

Biography

Early life

Born in 1970 in

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, son of a national police officer and a housekeeper who both moved from the

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to Madrid, he obtained a degree in Economic Sciences at 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 ...

(UCM). A neighbor of

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, Sánchez Mato, self-described as a "

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and

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", participated in Christian grassroot groups and was active in ''Nueva Claridad'', a

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group. He reported a case of abuse of minors in his

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in 2002 and later founded the "Association Church Without Abuses", being in the receiving end of threats because of it. With a career as economist in the private sector, he entered

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Madrid in 2011.

2015 municipal election

A longstanding member of United Left (IU), as well as a member of its regional federation

United Left of the Community of Madrid United Left of the Community of Madrid ( es, Izquierda Unida Comunidad de Madrid, IU–CM or IUCM) was the regional branch in the Community of Madrid The Community of Madrid (; es, Comunidad de Madrid ) is one of the seventeen autonomous com ...

(IUCM), he was forced to leave the later organization before the

2015 Madrid municipal election The 2015 Madrid City Council election, also the 2015 Madrid municipal election, was held on Sunday, 24 May 2015, to elect the 10th City Council of the municipality of Madrid. All 57 seats in the City Council were up for election. The election was h ...

in order to run as candidate in the 14th slot of the

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list for the election. He was elected Member of the

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. Following the investiture of

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as Mayor of Madrid on 13 June 2015, Sánchez Mato entered the City Government Board, holding the Area of Economy of Finance of the municipal executive. He was also appointed Councillor-President of the district of

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. Following the de-federation of IUCM from IU, Sánchez Mato, just like

Mauricio Valiente Mauricio Valiente Ots (born 1966) is a Spanish lawyer, activist and politician, member of United Left (Spain), United Left (IU) and the Communist Party of Spain (PCE). 3rd deputy Mayor of the Ayuntamiento of Madrid, Madrid City Council and counci ...

and Yolanda Rodríguez, announced in June 2015 his will to re-integrate in a new IU federation in Madrid.

Clash with Montoro and Carmena

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During his time as Councillor of Economy and Finance, Sánchez Mato clashed with

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, Minister of Finance, and, ultimately, also with Manuela Carmena, regarding the rule of spending imposed from the National Government and the Economic Financial Plan (PEF) for the municipality that, through austerity measures, constrained the budgetary plans initially envisioned by the City Council. This led to Carmena removing him off from the Government Board in December 2017. He was then re-shuffled to the Presidency of the district of

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, a position he effectively assumed on 12 January 2018, replacing .

2019 elections

In early March 2019 Sánchez Mato announced his intention to run in the IU primaries to select its candidates to the April 2019 general election in the Madrid constituency within the

Unidas Podemos Unidas Podemos (), formerly called Unidos Podemos () and also known in English as United We Can, is a democratic socialist electoral alliance formed by Podemos, United Left, and other left-wing to far-left parties in May to contest the 2016 Spa ...

coalition list. Four days later he dropped his candidacy, thinking in what was "best for the project". Following the renouncement of

to led IU in the primary election of the Madrid En Pie coalition for the list to be presented at the 2019 Madrid municipal election, after the membership of

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(IU–Madrid) decided in a referendum not to run in the

coalition for the

2019 Madrilenian regional election The 2019 Madrilenian regional election was held on Sunday, 26 May 2019, to elect the 11th Assembly of the Community of Madrid. All 132 seats in the Assembly were up for election. The election was held simultaneously with regional elections in elev ...

(in collision with the federal board's stance), Sánchez Mato accepted the responsibility of replacing Valiente on the condition the IU board tried their best to finally include Podemos in some form in the regional tentative candidacy, then visibly led by Sol Sánchez (IU–Madrid) and Raúl Camargo (Anticapitalistas Madrid). He edged Rommy Arce and Pablo Carmona in the voting to select the head of the municipal list.

Books

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