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{{For|the Puerto Rican politician|Carlos López Rivera}}
'''Carlos Rivera Rivera'''<ref>{{cite news |title=Villanueva de la Cañana [''sic''] y Torremocha continuarán con el mismo alcalde desde 1979|trans-title=Villanueva de la Cañada and Torremocha will continue with the same mayor since 1979|url=https://www.europapress.es/madrid/n...nuaran-mismo-alcalde-1979-20230529031130.html |access-date=4 May 2024 |publisher=[[Europa Press (news agency)|Europa Press]] |date=29 May 2023 |language=Spanish}}</ref> (born 1955 or 1956)<ref name=razon/> is a Spanish [[independent politician]] who has been mayor of [[Torremocha de Jarama]] in the [[Community of Madrid]] since the [[1979 Spanish local elections|first democratic elections]] in 1979.
==Biography==
Rivera studied for seven years in a [[seminary]] and said in 2021 that he would consider priesthood when he leaves politics.<ref name=madridiario>{{cite news |title=El lado más humano de... Carlos Rivera, alcalde de Torremocha de Jarama|trans-title=The most human side of... Carlos Rivera, mayor of Torremocha de Jarama |url=https://www.telemadrid.es/programas...ocha-Jarama-9-2395650428--20211112012249.html |access-date=4 May 2024 |publisher=Madridiario |date=12 November 2021 |language=Spanish}}</ref><ref name=razon>{{cite news |last1=Cañas |first1=Santiago |title=Carlos Rivera, el alcalde madrileño sin sueldo que lleva 44 años gobernando con mayoría absoluta|trans-title=Carlos Rivera, the unpaid Madrid mayor who has been governing with an absolute majority for 44 years|url=https://www.larazon.es/madrid/carlo...dividen_202403256600a0915e1b1f00010cfb2d.html |access-date=4 May 2024 |work=[[La Razón (Madrid)|La Razón]] |date=15 March 2024 |language=Spanish}}</ref> He was 23 when he was first elected mayor, having been prompted to run by negative local events such as the closing of his town's only school in 1974.<ref name=razon/>
During Rivera's mandate, his town grew from 140 inhabitants to over 1,000. He set up a public-run retirement home and a co-operative for the elderly.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Serrato |first1=Cristina |title=La comuna paradisíaca de los abuelos|trans-title=The paradise commune for grandparents |url=https://www.elmundo.es/madrid/2014/06/14/539c8bcc268e3e3f6c8b4572.html |access-date=4 May 2024 |work=[[El Mundo (Spain)|El Mundo]] |date=14 June 2014 |language=Spanish}}</ref> The town also accommodated a children's home that had been rejected by other municipalities, as well as public housing to prevent the emigration of young people.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Del Barrio |first1=Ana |title=Carlos Rivera, el alcalde incombustible |trans-title=Carlos Rivera, the incombustible mayor|url=https://www.elmundo.es/madrid/2019/05/28/5cec0e48fdddff896e8b45d5.html |access-date=4 May 2024 |work=El Mundo |date=28 May 2019 |language=Spanish}}</ref><ref name=razon/>
Rivera is not paid for his role as mayor, instead working as a civil servant and as a secretary in four nearby town councils. While the law calls for council sessions to be held at least every three months, he holds them monthly, so that any councillor unable to attend once does not have to wait half a year.<ref name=razon/> Rivera has faced some local criticism for his long administration, being called a ''Cacique'', a Spanish term for a [[political boss]]; he responded by saying "every four years the Cacique goes to the polls. And the residents, who are very smart, keep voting for the same Cacique".<ref name=razon/>
In 2013, Rivera was acquitted in a legal battle of over a decade, centring around the paving of livestock roads. Prosecutors had demanded a four-year prison sentence, disqualification from public office and €100,000 compensation. The court found that Rivera allowed the works as they had been approved by the Community of Madrid.<ref>{{cite news |title=Carlos Rivera absuelto de la acusación por la ocupación de vías Pecuarias en Los Tomillares|trans-title=Carlos Rivera acquitted of the accusation about the occupation of the livestock roads in Los Tomillares |url=https://www.sendanorte.es/2013/09/1...cupacion-de-vias-pecuarias-en-los-tomillares/ |access-date=4 May 2024 |publisher=Senda Norte |date=12 September 2013 |language=Spanish}}</ref>
Rivera was one of 31 mayors to retain their post for the first 40 years of democracy in local elections in Spain. He and another mayor in the Community of Madrid, [[Luis Partida]] of [[Villanueva de la Cañada]], retained an absolute majority in that time.<ref name=madridiario/>
==References==
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{{For|the Puerto Rican politician|Carlos López Rivera}}
'''Carlos Rivera Rivera'''<ref>{{cite news |title=Villanueva de la Cañana [''sic''] y Torremocha continuarán con el mismo alcalde desde 1979|trans-title=Villanueva de la Cañada and Torremocha will continue with the same mayor since 1979|url=https://www.europapress.es/madrid/n...nuaran-mismo-alcalde-1979-20230529031130.html |access-date=4 May 2024 |publisher=[[Europa Press (news agency)|Europa Press]] |date=29 May 2023 |language=Spanish}}</ref> (born 1955 or 1956)<ref name=razon/> is a Spanish [[independent politician]] who has been mayor of [[Torremocha de Jarama]] in the [[Community of Madrid]] since the [[1979 Spanish local elections|first democratic elections]] in 1979.
==Biography==
Rivera studied for seven years in a [[seminary]] and said in 2021 that he would consider priesthood when he leaves politics.<ref name=madridiario>{{cite news |title=El lado más humano de... Carlos Rivera, alcalde de Torremocha de Jarama|trans-title=The most human side of... Carlos Rivera, mayor of Torremocha de Jarama |url=https://www.telemadrid.es/programas...ocha-Jarama-9-2395650428--20211112012249.html |access-date=4 May 2024 |publisher=Madridiario |date=12 November 2021 |language=Spanish}}</ref><ref name=razon>{{cite news |last1=Cañas |first1=Santiago |title=Carlos Rivera, el alcalde madrileño sin sueldo que lleva 44 años gobernando con mayoría absoluta|trans-title=Carlos Rivera, the unpaid Madrid mayor who has been governing with an absolute majority for 44 years|url=https://www.larazon.es/madrid/carlo...dividen_202403256600a0915e1b1f00010cfb2d.html |access-date=4 May 2024 |work=[[La Razón (Madrid)|La Razón]] |date=15 March 2024 |language=Spanish}}</ref> He was 23 when he was first elected mayor, having been prompted to run by negative local events such as the closing of his town's only school in 1974.<ref name=razon/>
During Rivera's mandate, his town grew from 140 inhabitants to over 1,000. He set up a public-run retirement home and a co-operative for the elderly.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Serrato |first1=Cristina |title=La comuna paradisíaca de los abuelos|trans-title=The paradise commune for grandparents |url=https://www.elmundo.es/madrid/2014/06/14/539c8bcc268e3e3f6c8b4572.html |access-date=4 May 2024 |work=[[El Mundo (Spain)|El Mundo]] |date=14 June 2014 |language=Spanish}}</ref> The town also accommodated a children's home that had been rejected by other municipalities, as well as public housing to prevent the emigration of young people.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Del Barrio |first1=Ana |title=Carlos Rivera, el alcalde incombustible |trans-title=Carlos Rivera, the incombustible mayor|url=https://www.elmundo.es/madrid/2019/05/28/5cec0e48fdddff896e8b45d5.html |access-date=4 May 2024 |work=El Mundo |date=28 May 2019 |language=Spanish}}</ref><ref name=razon/>
Rivera is not paid for his role as mayor, instead working as a civil servant and as a secretary in four nearby town councils. While the law calls for council sessions to be held at least every three months, he holds them monthly, so that any councillor unable to attend once does not have to wait half a year.<ref name=razon/> Rivera has faced some local criticism for his long administration, being called a ''Cacique'', a Spanish term for a [[political boss]]; he responded by saying "every four years the Cacique goes to the polls. And the residents, who are very smart, keep voting for the same Cacique".<ref name=razon/>
In 2013, Rivera was acquitted in a legal battle of over a decade, centring around the paving of livestock roads. Prosecutors had demanded a four-year prison sentence, disqualification from public office and €100,000 compensation. The court found that Rivera allowed the works as they had been approved by the Community of Madrid.<ref>{{cite news |title=Carlos Rivera absuelto de la acusación por la ocupación de vías Pecuarias en Los Tomillares|trans-title=Carlos Rivera acquitted of the accusation about the occupation of the livestock roads in Los Tomillares |url=https://www.sendanorte.es/2013/09/1...cupacion-de-vias-pecuarias-en-los-tomillares/ |access-date=4 May 2024 |publisher=Senda Norte |date=12 September 2013 |language=Spanish}}</ref>
Rivera was one of 31 mayors to retain their post for the first 40 years of democracy in local elections in Spain. He and another mayor in the Community of Madrid, [[Luis Partida]] of [[Villanueva de la Cañada]], retained an absolute majority in that time.<ref name=madridiario/>
==References==
{{reflist}}
{{DEFAULTSORT:Rivera, Carlos}}
[[Category:1950s births]]
[[Category:Living people]]
[[Category
eople from Sierra Norte, Madrid]][[Category:Mayors of places in the Community of Madrid]]
Okumaya devam et...