Cristina Coto de la Mata was born on 6 March 1970 in Sotrondio, a small town in Asturias.

[1] Her father Jesus Coto (1939/1940 – 15 November 2021) was a bank manager who worked for Banco Popular Español.

[4] On 3 February 2011, Coto resigned from the General Junta; she also left the PP to join the Asturias Forum, a recently-created regional party founded by former PP Secretary-General (and later President of the Principality of Asturias) Francisco Álvarez-Cascos.

[9] In January 2019, Coto was announced as the Vox candidate for mayor of Oviedo in the 2019 Spanish local elections.

[17] In 2007, she filed a complaint against harassment against Luis Madiedo, a party official for the PP's Gijón division.