Carmen Moriyón


María del Carmen Moriyón Entrialgo, is a Spanish surgeon and politician.
She headed the list of Asturias Forum to the mayor of Gijón in the municipal elections of Spain in 2011, getting 9 councilors and becoming the first non-socialist mayor of Gijón since the 1979 elections thanks to the support of the Popular Party in the investiture.
Carmen Moriyón is the daughter of Maximino Moriyón Álvarez and Margarita Entrialgo Álvarez, and widow of José Ramón Rodríguez-Galindo González a surgeon who died on 2009.
She studied at the College of the Holy Angel of the Guardian and the College of the Immaculate, and has a degree in Medicine and Surgery from the University of Oviedo and specialist in Mastology from the Autonomous University of Madrid. She was responsible for the breast cancer unit at the Cabueñes Hospital until her election as mayor.
On 29 September 2018, Moriyón became president of the political party Asturias Forum.