Manuel Cobo

[1] Cobo was elected to the Assembly of Madrid in 1991, and became secretary general of the People's Party (PP) group.

[2] He too left the city council early the following year, to become the management coordinator at IFEMA, the Madrid railway body.

[3] Cobo left his role at IFEMA in September 2015 and announced that December that he was quitting politics, for personal reasons.

[1] He was unable to take the seat in the Congress of Deputies that he had won in that year's general election for his native province's constituency; in 2017 he resigned shortly after being named in charge of an anti-corruption drive in the PP.

The cause of his resignations was ill health from his smoking; after nearly losing the ability to speak, he underwent a double lung transplant in 2020.