Emma Buj

María Emma Buj Sánchez (born 10 May 1972)[1] is a Spanish People's Party (PP) politician. She was elected to the city council in Teruel in 2003 and became its mayor in 2016. In 2023, she was elected to the Senate of Spain.

Early and personal life

Buj was born in Teruel in Aragon. Her father was an auditor for the city council, who introduced her to local politics. She graduated with a degree in social work from the Teruel campus of the University of Zaragoza, and in 1995 began working as a civil servant in the Provincial Deputation.[2]

Buj has a daughter born in 2005,[3] and a son born in 2010.[4]

Political career

Buj first ran on a People's Party (PP) list for election to Teruel City Council in 1999, and was elected in 2003. In those elections, the Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE) took the mayor's office, and Buj became the PP spokesperson. In 2007–2011, as the Aragonese Party (PAR) governed, she retained her spokesperson role and was also a member of the provincial deputation.[2]

Manuel Blasco Marqués of the PP became mayor of Teruel in 2010. Re-elected in 2015, he named Buj as his deputy and the councillor in charge of urban planning.[2] At the start of 2016, he resigned to focus on his role in the Congress of Deputies, and Buj succeeded him, with the PP voting in her favour and Citizens (Cs) abstaining.[5] In the 2019 local elections, the PP lost one seat to seven, but parties of the right held 13 out of 21 seats on the council.[6] In the investiture session, she received 11 votes (PP, Cs, Vox) as the two members from PAR voted for their own candidacy.[7]

Buj was re-elected in 2023 in May with an absolute majority, as the PP won 11 of 21 seats. She called for co-operation with the other parties: Teruel Exists for commitment to local issues, PSOE for ending polarisation in politics, and Vox due to pacts between PP and Vox around the country.[8] Around 200 people protested outside the city hall during her investiture in June, due to what they saw as mismanagement concerning the collapse of a residential building.[8]

In the 2023 Spanish general election in July, Buj was the most voted candidate in the Teruel constituency for the Senate of Spain, as the PP took three of its four seats.[9]

References

  1. ^ "Buj Sánchez, María Emma". Senate of Spain. Retrieved 22 January 2026.
  2. ^ a b c Ibáñez, Víctor (2 July 2022). "Emma Buj, la alcaldesa de Teruel que será recordada por el destrozo del 'torico'". elDiario.es (in Spanish). Retrieved 22 January 2026.
  3. ^ "Anécdotas de la jornada electoral en Aragón: Tres hijos de candidatos votan por primera vez" [Anecdotes of election day in Aragon: Three children of candidates vote for the first time]. Heraldo de Aragón (in Spanish). 28 May 2023. Retrieved 22 January 2026.
  4. ^ "La edila Emma Buj, madre de un niño" [Councillor Emma Buj, mother of a boy]. El Periódico de Aragón (in Spanish). 13 February 2010. Retrieved 22 January 2026.
  5. ^ "Emma Buj, nueva alcaldesa de Teruel" [Emma Buj, new mayor of Teruel]. Expansión (in Spanish). Europa Press. 10 February 2016. Retrieved 22 January 2026.
  6. ^ "El PP consigue el Ayuntamiento de Teruel" [PP gets Teruel City Council]. Heraldo de Aragón (in Spanish). 27 May 2019. Retrieved 22 January 2026.
  7. ^ Rajadel, Luis (16 June 2019). "La popular Emma Buj, investida alcaldesa en Teruel con el apoyo de Cs y Vox" [People's Party's Emma Buj, invested as mayor in Teruel with the support of Cs and Vox]. Heraldo de Aragón (in Spanish). Retrieved 22 January 2026.
  8. ^ a b "Emma Buj repite como alcaldesa de Teruel con mayoría absoluta y con una protesta en la calle por el derrumbe de la calle San Francisco" [Emma Buj re-elected as mayor of Teruel with absolute majority and with a protest in the street due to the collapse on San Francisco Street]. Diario de Teruel (in Spanish). 18 June 2023. Retrieved 22 January 2026.
  9. ^ "Estos son los senadores elegidos en las elecciones generales del 23-J" [These are the senators elected in the general election on 23 July]. Heraldo de Aragón (in Spanish). 24 July 2023. Retrieved 22 January 2026.
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