Soledad Becerril

Doña María de la Soledad Becerril y Bustamante, Marquise consort of Salvatierra (born 16 August 1944 in Madrid, Spain) is a Spanish noble, politician and long serving member of the Spanish Congress of Deputies who belongs to the People's Party (PP).

Becerril is married to Rafael Atienza y Medina, 8th Marquis of Salvatierra and Chancellor of the Royal Cavalry Armory of Seville Married with two children, Becerril graduated in philosophy and letters at the University of Madrid, specialising in English philology.

She entered politics in 1974 when she joined the Federation of Democratic and Liberal parties and subsequently joined the Democratic Party of Andalusia (PDA).

The PDA joined with other parties in May 1977 to form the Union of the Democratic Centre (UCD), a coalition which won the first democratic election since the death of Franco and the end of Francoist Spain.

Becerril thus became the first female Minister in Spain since the Second Spanish Republic, almost 50 years earlier,[1] and only the second female Spanish Minister in history after Federica Montseny in 1936.