María San Gil

María San Gil Noain (born 15 January 1965, in San Sebastián) is a Spanish Basque politician.

Born in San Sebastián, San Gil graduated with a degree in Trilingual Biblical Philology from the Universidad Pontificia de Salamanca. In 1991 she began working for the San Sebastián city council, representing the conservative Partido Popular. On January 23, 1995 she witnessed the assassination of her colleague Gregorio Ordóñez by the Basque terrorist group ETA, and thereafter decided that she would spend her political career fighting terrorism.^[1]

Rising steadily in prominence, in 2003 she became the leader of the Partido Popular's regional representation in the Basque Country. In the regional elections of 2005 she was a candidate for Basque regional president or lehendakari, but lost out to the nationalist candidate Juan Jose Ibarretxe of the EAJ-PNV.

On April 18, 2007 she announced that she had been diagnosed with breast cancer and had already been operated on once. On May 21, 2008 after a meeting with Mariano Rajoy she informed him of her intention to resign from the leadership position in the regional representation of the Partido Popular.^[2]

San Gil is married and has two children.

References

1. ^ Staff (23 September 2008). "Maria San Gilek utzi dio legebiltzarkide izateari" (in Basque). Berria.info (Andoain, Pais Vascos: Euskal Editorea S.L.). http://www.berria.info/albisteak/29430/maria_san_gilek_utzi_dio_legebiltzarkide_izateari.htm. Retrieved 13 August 2010. 
2. ^ EFE (1 August 2007). "María San Gil regresa a la política tras superar un cáncer de mama" (in Spanish). ELPAÍS.com (Madrid: Edicíones El País). http://www.elpais.com/articulo/espana/Maria/San/Gil/regresa/politica/superar/cancer/mama/elpepuesp/20070801elpepunac_12/Tes. Retrieved 13 August 2010. 

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Name	San Gil, Maria
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Short description	Politician
Date of birth	15 January 1965
Place of birth	San Sebastián
Date of death
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