Alicia Delibes

Spanish politician and high school teacher

Alicia Delibes

Madrid city councillor
In office
13 June 2015 – June 2017
Member of the Assembly of Madrid
In office
19 July 2007 – 31 March 2015
Personal details
Born| 28 April 1950
Madrid, Spain
Citizenship| Spanish
Political party| People's Party
Spouse| Regino García-Badell Arias
Alma mater| UCM
Occupation| Politician, math teacher

Alicia Delibes Liniers (born 1950) is a Spanish politician and high school teacher.

## Early life and education

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Born on 28 April 1950 in Madrid[1] she is niece of Miguel Delibes, and in her mother side, descendant of Jacques de Liniers, Count of Buenos Aires and Viceroy of the Río de la Plata during the reign of Charles IV.[2]

She obtained a degree in Mathematics at the Complutense University of Madrid.[3] In her youth, in the 1970s, she sympathised with anarchist and also maoist positions, just like (in the later case) one of her mentors, Federico Jiménez Losantos, whom he started to collaborate with in the Cadena COPE and Libertad Digital.[2]

## Career

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She later entered politics: first as Director General of Academic Ordering and later as Vice-Minister of Education of the Government of the Community of Madrid (between June 2007 and June 2015), second to Lucía Figar.[2][3]

She was included in the 70th slot of the People's Party list for the 2007 Madrilenian regional election. She was not elected. Nonetheless, following the resignation of Paloma Martín Martín, she became member of the regional parliament on 19 July 2007.[4] He renovated the seat in the 2011 Madrilenian regional election.

Elected city councillor in the 2015 Madrid municipal election within the PP list headed by Esperanza Aguirre, she handed in her resignation as city councillor in June 2017.[3]

She is married to Regino García-Badell, nephew of Carlos Arias Navarro, Chief of Staff of Esperanza Aguirre and member of the Consultative Council of the Community of Madrid.[2]

Alfredo Grimaldos considers Delibes "the main culprit of the destruction of the public education in the Community of Madrid".[5]

## Personal life

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She is a high school math teacher.[2]

## References

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1. ^ "Ilma. Sra. D.ª Alicia Delibes Liniers". Assembly of Madrid. Archived from the original on 12 August 2018. Retrieved 27 January 2019.
2. ^ a b c d e Escolar, Ignacio (29 September 2014). "La meritocracia liberal". Eldiario.es.
3. ^ a b c Domingo, Marta R. (16 June 2017). "Alicia Delibes renuncia a su acta como concejal del PP en el Ayuntamiento de Madrid". ABC.
4. ^ "Promesa o juramento ante el Pleno de la Asamblea de Madrid, de fecha 19 de julio de 2007, por el que adquiere la plena condición de Diputada de la Asamblea la Ilma S.ª D.ª Alicia Delibes Liniers, del Grupo Parlamentario Popular, en sustitución por renuncia de la Ilma. S.ª D.ª Paloma Martín Martín" (PDF). Boletín Oficial de la Asamblea de Madrid: 199. ISSN 1131-7043. Archived from the original (PDF) on 24 January 2018. Retrieved 27 January 2019.
5. ^ Grimaldos, Alfredo (2009). Esperanza Aguirre: la lideresa. Tres Cantos: Ediciones Akal. p. 14\. ISBN 978-84-96797-23-9.