Ángeles Muñoz

María Ángeles Muñoz Uriol (born 20 January 1960)[1] is a Spanish politician of the People's Party (PP). Elected to the city council in Marbella in 2003, she was mayor of the city from 2007 to 2015 and again from 2017. She was also a member of the Congress of Deputies (2000–2008) and Senate of Spain (2016–2023).

Biography

Early career

Muñoz was born in Córdoba in Andalusia, and qualified as a doctor specialising in family medicine in 1986.[1] She then practiced medicine in San Pedro Alcántara, a town within Marbella's municipal limits.[2]

Muñoz left medicine for politics in 1995 when elected deputy mayor of Benahavís in the Province of Málaga.[2] In 1996, she was elected to the Parliament of Andalusia, and a year later she was named director general of the Migration Ordinance of the Ministry of Labour and Social Affairs,[2] serving until 12 February 1999.[3]

Mayor of Marbella and senator

Muñoz was elected president of the People's Party (PP) of Marbella in 1998 and elected to the city council in 2003 having run for mayor, winning four out of 27 seats.[1] This was the last mandate in which the city was governed by the Liberal Independent Group (GIL) of Jesús Gil that had run it since 1991; the council was dissolved by the national government in April 2006 due to widespread corruption.[1] In the 2007 elections, her party quadrupled its number of seats amidst the wipeout of GIL, and she was elected mayor.[1] She won a second term four years later.[4]

In 2015, José Bernal Gutiérrez of the Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE) was installed as mayor with the support of United Left/The Greens–Assembly for Andalusia, Podemos and Opción Sampedreña (OSP), a localist group for San Pedro Alcántara. On 29 August 2017, she regained office after a motion of no confidence in Bernal, supported by the 13 councillors from her party and the two of OSP.[5] She was further elected with a majority in 2019 and 2023.[6][7]

The PP named Muñoz as lead candidate in their list for the Senate of Spain in the 2015 Spanish general election, for the Málaga constituency.[8] They took three of the four constituency seats, and repeated the feat in the next election months later.[9][10] The situation was reversed in the elections of April and November 2019, with Muñoz the only PP senator from Málaga.[11]

Muñoz earned €14,800 as mayor in 2020 due to the majority of her earnings coming from the Senate and being paid only to attend local plenary sessions and commissions. In 2023, she declined to run for the Senate in upcoming elections, instead working exclusively as mayor. Weeks later, her salary was increased to €92,928, in a decision supported by her party, abstained on by the PSOE and OSP, and rejected by Vox. Muñoz's new salary was slightly more than the prime minister of Spain Pedro Sánchez and President of the Regional Government of Andalusia Juanma Moreno; it was marginally less then mayor of Seville José Luis Sanz and mayor of Málaga Francisco de la Torre, whose cities had populations over three times as much. She became the eighth-highest paid mayor in Spain, and the highest outside of a provincial capital.[12]

References

  1. ^ a b c d e "La cordobesa Angeles [sic] Muñoz gobernará Marbella tras el gilismo" [Córdoba-born Ángeles Muñoz will govern Marbella after "Gilism"]. Córdoba (in Spanish). 29 May 2007. Retrieved 11 December 2025.
  2. ^ a b c Sánchez, Nacho (18 November 2022). "La alcaldesa de Marbella actualiza su declaración de bienes ante el Senado tras ser procesados su marido y su hijastro" [Mayor of Marbella updates her declaration of assets before the Senate after her husband and stepson are put on trial]. El País (in Spanish). Archived from the original on 11 December 2025. Retrieved 11 December 2025.
  3. ^ "Real Decreto 268/1999, de 12 de febrero, por el que se dispone el cese de doña María Ángeles Muñoz Uriol como Directora general de Ordenación de las Migraciones" (in Spanish). Boletín Oficial del Estado. Retrieved 11 December 2025.
  4. ^ Barbotta, Héctor (24 May 2011). "Ángeles Muñoz, alcaldesa de Marbella: «Ha pasado la etapa de normalización, ha llegado la hora de los nuevos proyectos»". Diario Sur (in Spanish). Retrieved 11 December 2025.
  5. ^ Barbotta, Héctor (29 August 2017). "Ángeles Muñoz back as mayor of Marbella". Sur. Retrieved 11 December 2025.
  6. ^ "Ángeles Muñoz, reelegida alcaldesa de Marbella por cuarta vez" [Ángeles Muñoz, re-elected mayor of Marbella for the forth time]. La Vanguardia (in Spanish). EFE. 15 June 2019. Retrieved 11 December 2025.
  7. ^ Sánchez Orellana, Jesús (29 May 2023). "Ángeles Muñoz (PP) revalida la mayoría absoluta en Marbella" [Ángeles Muñoz (PP) retains absolute majority in Marbella] (in Spanish). Cadena SER. Retrieved 11 December 2025.
  8. ^ "Muñoz, al Senado y España y Marmolejo, al Congreso" [Muñoz, to the Senate and España and Marmolejo, to the Congress] (in Spanish). Cadena SER. 11 November 2015. Retrieved 11 December 2025.
  9. ^ "Málaga". El País (in Spanish). Retrieved 11 December 2025.
  10. ^ "Málaga". El País (in Spanish). Retrieved 11 December 2025.
  11. ^ "Ángeles Muñoz revalida su escaño al Senado por Málaga y derrota al socialista Josele Aguilar" [Ángeles Muñoz retains her seat in the Senate for Málaga and defeats the Socialist Josele Aguilar] (in Spanish). Marbella Confidencial. 11 November 2019. Retrieved 11 December 2025.
  12. ^ Sánchez, Nacho (26 November 2025). "La polémica subida de sueldo de la alcaldesa de Marbella: lo multiplicó por seis en cinco años" [The controversial salary increase for the mayor of Marbella: it multiplied by six over five years]. El País (in Spanish). Archived from the original on 26 November 2025. Retrieved 11 December 2025.
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