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Manuela Carmena Castrillo (born 9 February 1944) is a retired Spanish lawyer, emeritus judge of the Spanish Supreme Court and Mayor of Madrid since 13 June 2015. ==Biography== After graduating law school in 1965 from the Complutense University of Madrid, she became a defender of the workers and detainees during the dictatorship of Francisco Franco and co-founder of a labor law office where the 1977 Massacre of Atocha took place. She was also a member of the Communist Party of Spain. She had left the Communist Party by 1981.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Important drop of communist party membership )〕 As a judge she began an almost solitary fight to prevent corruption in existing courts. In 1986 she received the National Human Rights Award. She was a member of the General Council of the Judiciary, proposed by United Left, and a founder of the progressive association Judges for Democracy. Judge of Penitentiary Vigilance and head of the Penitentiary Vigilance Court No. 1 of Madrid, she was elected senior judge of Madrid in 1993. Retired from the judiciary since 2010, Carmena became a member of the ''Patronato de la Fundación Alternativas'', a think tank correlated to the Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE), with members such as the former Socialist presidents Felipe González and José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero. Carmena Castrillo went back to her working life by founding the supportive cooperative "Yayos emprendedores" (lit. entrepreneur grannies), which sponsors a small retail business that sells children's games and clothing and shoes made by prisoners at the Alcalá de Guadaira jail in Seville.〔(Yayos Emprendedores, una empresa con beneficio social ) (in Spanish)〕〔(Zapatelas: Quiénes Somos ) (in Spanish)〕 She ran as the candidate of the Ahora Madrid coalition in the 2015 Madrid mayoral election. On 13 June 2015, Manuela Carmena was declared Mayor of Madrid. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Manuela Carmena」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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