Jesús Manuel Sánchez Cabrera (born 1 August 1982) is a Spanish politician of the

For Ávila For Ávila (, XAV) is a regional political party in Castile and León, centered in the province of Ávila. It was formed as a split from the People's Party (Spain), People's Party in January 2019 and officially registered as a political party on 1 ...

(XAV) party. He was elected mayor of

Ávila Ávila ( , , ) is a Spanish city located in the autonomous community of Castile and León. It is the capital and most populated municipality of the Province of Ávila. It lies on the right bank of the Adaja river. Located more than 1,130 m a ...

in 2019, having been the President of the Provincial Deputation of

from 2015 to 2019, as a member of the People's Party (PP).

Biography

Born in

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, Sánchez Cabrera studied Political and Administrative Sciences at the

Complutense University of Madrid The Complutense University of Madrid (, UCM; ) is a public research university located in Madrid. Founded in Alcalá in 1293 (before relocating to Madrid in 1836), it is one of the oldest operating universities in the world, and one of Spain's ...

and worked in a bank from 2007 to 2015. In

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, he was elected to the town council in Padiernos in the

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, and into the Provincial Deputation. Four years later, he was installed as president of the deputation in a surprise move, as the designated candidate of the People's Party (PP) was Pablo Luis Gómez, a councillor in the provincial capital. In December 2018, Sánchez Cabrera announced that he would not be the PP candidate for mayor of Ávila in the coming elections. The following March, two months before the vote, he was announced as the candidate for

(XAV), a local split from the PP. A

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was then passed successfully against him in the provincial deputation, and he was succeeded by his former ally Carlos García González. In June, he was invested as mayor as his party took 11 out of 25 seats and the PP took 6; he ended 28 years of PP control in the city. He retained the exact amount of seats in

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, choosing to preside over a minority government in dialogue with all opposition parties.

References

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