Honorific-Suffix: | MP |
Birth Name: | Concepción Gamarra Ruiz-Clavijo |
Birth Date: | 23 December 1974 |
Birth Place: | Logroño, La Rioja, Spain |
Nationality: | Spanish |
Party: | People's Party |
Office: | Secretary-General of the People's Party |
Term Start: | 2 April 2022 |
President: | Alberto Núñez Feijóo |
Predecessor: | Teodoro García Egea |
Office2: | Spokesperson of the Popular Group in the Congress of Deputies |
Term Start2: | 21 August 2020 |
Predecessor2: | Cayetana Álvarez de Toledo |
Office3: | Member of the Congress of Deputies |
Term Start3: | 21 May 2019 |
Constituency3: | La Rioja |
Office4: | Mayor of Logroño |
Term Start4: | 11 June 2011 |
Term End4: | 15 June 2019 |
Successor4: | Pablo Hermoso de Mendoza |
Predecessor4: | Tomás Santos |
Office5: | Member of the Logroño City Council |
Term Start5: | 14 June 2003 |
Term End5: | 15 June 2019 |
Concepción "Cuca" Gamarra Ruiz-Clavijo (born 23 December 1974) is a Spanish politician who is Secretary-General of the People's Party.
Born on 23 December 1974 in Logroño she earned a licentiate degree in Economic Law from the University of Deusto. Elected as municipal councillor of Logroño, she served as deputy mayor from 2003 to 2007. She became Mayor of Logroño after the 2011 municipal election.[1]
She was re-elected Mayor of Logroño for a second mandate in the 2015 municipal election.[2]
She endorsed Soraya Sáenz de Santamaría vis-à-vis the process for the election of the new PP leader in 2018.[3] [4]
She ran as candidate to the Congress of Deputies in the PP at the April 2019 general election, and was elected deputy. She held her seat at the November 2019 general election.
In August 2020, Pablo Casado chose her as the new spokesperson of the PP's parliamentary group in the Congress of Deputies, replacing Cayetana Álvarez de Toledo.[5]