Manuel Cobo

For the Argentine footballer, see Juan Manuel Cobo.

Manuel Cobo Vega (born 18 June 1956)[1] is a Spanish People's Party (PP) politician.

He served in the Assembly of Madrid from 1991 to 2003, where he was finance minister. He followed his mentor Alberto Ruiz-Gallardón into the local politics of Madrid, as a member of the city council from 2003 to 2012. He was deputy mayor and briefly acting mayor of the city. Following ill health and a double lung transplant, he returned to politics in 2023 as a member of the Congress of Deputies.

  1. ^ "Manuel Cobo deja la política por motivos personales" [Manuel Cobo leaves politics for personal reasons]. Diario de Mallorca (in Spanish). EFE. 28 December 2015. Retrieved 9 April 2024.