José María Bellido

José María Bellido Roche (born 15 September 1977) is a Spanish People's Party (PP) politician who is a city councillor (2004–) and the mayor (2019–) of Córdoba.

Bellido was born in the Vallellano neighbourhood of Córdoba, Andalusia and gained his interest in local politics from his father, who was a secretary at the city hall in Almodóvar del Río.

[2] In June 2019, Bellido was invested as mayor of Córdoba after all councillors of the PP and Citizens voted in his favour, and Vox abstained.

[4] In August 2020, following the reconversion of Istanbul's Hagia Sophia into a mosque, Sultan bin Muhammad Al-Qasimi of Sharjah called for the Córdoba building to go through the same process.

Bellido replied that "As mayor, I intend to defend our city, and if people come from outside telling us what to do, they are going to have the door closed in their faces".