Mauricio Valiente

Mauricio Valiente Ots (born 1966) is a Spanish lawyer, activist and politician, member of United Left (IU) and the Communist Party of Spain (PCE). 3rd deputy Mayor of the Madrid City Council and councillor-president of the Chamartín District since 2015, he was a member of the 9th Assembly of Madrid.

Mauricio Valiente
Madrid city councillor
Assumed office
13 June 2015
Member of the Assembly of Madrid
In office
7 June 2011 – 31 March 2015
Personal details
Born (1966-08-31) 31 August 1966
Madrid
CitizenshipSpanish
Political partyIU, PCE
Alma materUCM
UC3M
OccupationLawyer, politician

Early life

Born on 31 August 1966 in Chamartín, Madrid.[1][2] Active in the student movement and a member of the Communist Youth since 1985.[3] he is a member of the Communist Party of Spain (PCE).[4] He graduated in Law at the Complutense University of Madrid (UCM) and obtained his PhD in the same area at the Charles III University of Madrid (UC3M).[5][6] In his capacity as lawyer he specialised in the area of asylum seeking, immigration and human rights,[7] and worked for several years at the Comisión Española de Ayuda al Refugiado (CEAR).[8] He has also worked as associate professor for the UC3M.[3]

Regional MP

Included in the 9th slot of the United Left–The Greens (IU-LV) for the May 2011 regional election, headed by Gregorio Gordo Pradel,[9] he was elected member of the 9th term of the regional legislature (2011–2015),[10] in which he held the attached spokesmanship of the United Left–The Greens parliamentary group in the Commission of Social Affairs.[11]

Primary elections of IU-CM and Ahora Madrid
Valiente intervening in an IU event in November 2014, along Javier Couso, Tania Sánchez and María Espinosa.

In November 2014 he presented as IU candidate (in a City Council-regional Government tandem along Tania Sánchez) for the Mayorship of Madrid in an IU-CM internal process. His candidature, linked to the critic faction, defended the merging of IU-CM with other organizations in the electoral list.[12] Despite winning the primary election on 30 November 2014,[13][14] their plan to subsume within another list was not accepted, and he was forced to leave the organization, being replaced by Raquel López as IU-CM head list. This IU-CM move was later disallowed by the IU federal board. Valiente joined the primary process of Ahora Madrid for the municipal election.[14][15]

City councillor
Valiente in September 2018 during Ahed Tamimi's visit to Madrid.

Finally included in the 4th slot of the Ahora Madrid list for the 2015 municipal election, Valiente was elected city councillor for the 2015–2019 corporation.[16] Following the investiture as Mayor of Manuela Carmena, Valiente became 3rd deputy Mayor and president of the Chamartín District.[17]

Following the ejection of IU-CM from IU in June 2015, and the subsequent constitution of United Left Madrid (IU-M) in 2016, Valiente was elected co-spokesman of the later in a primary election ex-aequo with Chus Alonso, Mayor of Ciempozuelos.[18] In another primary election that took place in September–October 2018, Valiente was elected leader of IU in the electoral list for the 2019 municipal election, although the party planned its will for subsuming it within a wider list with other organizations.[19] As the IU–Madrid membership decided in a referendum not to run in the regional election under the Unidas Podemos coalition, Valiente renounced to run as IU candidate in the Madrid En Pie Municipalista primary election to conform a list for the municipal election between members of IU, Anticapitalistas Madrid and Bancada Municipalista; Carlos Sánchez Mato assumed the challenge.[20]

References
  1. "Así es Mauricio Valiente, nuevo concejal de Chamartín". Pymes Chamartín. 16 June 2015. Retrieved 29 November 2018.
  2. "Ilmo. Sr. D. Mauricio Valiente Ots". Assembly of Madrid. Retrieved 29 November 2018.
  3. "Mauricio Valiente, el activista que mira al Palacio de Cibeles". eldiario.es. 1 December 2014. Retrieved 29 November 2018.
  4. "Mauricio Valiente y Chus Alonso, coportavoces de la nueva IU Madrid". eldiario.es. 3 April 2016. Retrieved 29 November 2018.
  5. Muñoz, Miguel (11 January 2017). "Eddy Sánchez presenta la dimisión tras el triunfo incontestable de la renovación en IUCM". Cuarto Poder. Retrieved 29 November 2018.
  6. García Rallo, Bruno (24 November 2014). "No pagaremos la deuda de Madrid a los bancos porque es ilegítima". El País. Retrieved 29 November 2018.
  7. Europa Press, ed. (15 March 2016). "Valiente será el próximo concejal que pasará por la entrevista colectiva de Decide Madrid". Retrieved 29 November 2018.
  8. Sánchez, Ray (9 December 2015). "Carmena: 'No vamos a cambiar las calles de la noche a la mañana'". El Mundo. Retrieved 29 November 2018.
  9. Junta Electoral Provincial de Madrid: "Candidaturas proclamadas por los diversos partidos políticos y coaliciones que concurren a las Elecciones a la Asamblea de Madrid 2011" (PDF). Boletín Oficial de la Comunidad de Madrid (97): 2. 26 April 2011. ISSN 1889-4410.
  10. Muñoz, Miguel (31 March 2016). "Chus Alonso y Mauricio Valiente, candidatos del sector mayoritario a liderar IU Madrid". Cuarto Poder. Retrieved 29 November 2018.
  11. Europa Press (ed.). "Redondo presidirá la comisión de Asuntos Sociales de la Asamblea de Madrid". Retrieved 29 November 2018.
  12. Bellver, Marta (1 December 2014). "Un tándem para el cambio en IU". El Mundo. Retrieved 29 November 2018.
  13. "Tania Sánchez y Mauricio Valiente, ganadores de las primarias de IU". El Mundo. 1 December 2014. Retrieved 29 November 2018.
  14. Romero, Juanma (29 March 2015). "IU federal da un golpe en la mesa y tumba la candidatura del Ayuntamiento de Madrid". InfoLibre. Retrieved 29 November 2018.
  15. Jiménez Gálvez, J (11 June 2015). "Quién es quién. Los 19 concejales de Manuela Carmena". El País. Retrieved 29 November 2018.
  16. Bécares, Roberto (25 May 2015). "Así son 'los cinco' de Ahora Madrid". El Mundo. Retrieved 29 November 2018.
  17. Puebla, Juanfer (23 June 2015). "Los nuevos responsables municipales del Ayuntamiento de Madrid (Junio 2015)". Pongamos que Hablo de Madrid. Retrieved 29 November 2018.
  18. "Mauricio Valiente y Chus Alonso liderarán la nueva IU de Madrid". eldiario.es. 3 April 2016. Retrieved 29 November 2018.
  19. Serrato, Fran (9 October 2018). "IU elige a Mauricio Valiente y a Sol Sánchez para encabezar sus listas en Madrid". El País. Retrieved 29 November 2018.
  20. "Carlos Sánchez Mato sustituye a Mauricio Valiente y encabezará la lista de IU al Ayuntamiento de Madrid". eldiario.es. 30 March 2019.
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