Former Más Madrid candidate jailed 9 years for raping student who took her own life
Enrique Antonio Salazar, a former Más Madrid candidate, has been sentenced to 9 years for raping a 15-year-old student. The victim took her own life in 2025. He also had prior convictions.
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Sentenced to 9 years for raping a student who took her own life: the record of the former Más Madrid candidate
Enrique Antonio Salazar, a former Más Madrid candidate for mayor of Villanueva de la Cañada in Spain, has been sentenced to nine years in prison for raping a 15-year-old student in 2019. The victim took her own life in 2025, before the verdict. The ruling, made public in June 2026, also imposes one year and six months for the continued abuse of another student.
A record that did not stop his candidacy
Salazar already had a incivil record for sensual abusing a 13-year-old minor. Despite this, in 2023 he topped the Más Madrid list in Villanueva de la Cañada. Mónica García's party claims he was withdrawn "immediately" once the facts became known, but the timeline suggests the vetting failed spectacularly.
The timeline of an avoidable disaster
The record is damning: prior convictions, the 2019 rape of a 15-year-old student, a candidacy in 2023, the victim's suicide in 2025 and the conviction in 2026. One has to ask how someone with that past could become a party's lead candidate in a party that prides itself on "ethical change".
The debate that makes the left uncomfortable
The uncomfortable questions keep coming: was there negligence in candidate selection? Is this an isolated case or a pattern? While Más Madrid limits itself to an exculpatory statement, the facts speak for themselves. Confidence in political vetting systems is, at the very least, shaken.
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Enrique Antonio Salazar, a former Más Madrid candidate for mayor of Villanueva de la Cañada in Spain, has been sentenced to nine years in prison for raping a 15-year-old student in 2019. The victim took her own life in 2025, before the verdict. The ruling, made public in June 2026, also imposes one year and six months for the continued abuse of another student.
A record that did not stop his candidacy
Salazar already had a incivil record for sensual abusing a 13-year-old minor. Despite this, in 2023 he topped the Más Madrid list in Villanueva de la Cañada. Mónica García's party claims he was withdrawn "immediately" once the facts became known, but the timeline suggests the vetting failed spectacularly.
The timeline of an avoidable disaster
The record is damning: prior convictions, the 2019 rape of a 15-year-old student, a candidacy in 2023, the victim's suicide in 2025 and the conviction in 2026. One has to ask how someone with that past could become a party's lead candidate in a party that prides itself on "ethical change".
The debate that makes the left uncomfortable
The uncomfortable questions keep coming: was there negligence in candidate selection? Is this an isolated case or a pattern? While Más Madrid limits itself to an exculpatory statement, the facts speak for themselves. Confidence in political vetting systems is, at the very least, shaken.
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