# Lola Botella

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{{Short description|Spanish politician (1945–2023)}}
'''María Dolores "Lola" Botella Arbona''' (20 July 1945 – 31 August 2023) was a Spanish [People's Party](/source/People's_Party_(Spain)) (PP) politician. She was the mayor of [Carcaixent](/source/Carcaixent) in the [Valencian Community](/source/Valencian_Community) from 1999 to 2015, and a deputy in the [Corts Valencianes](/source/Corts_Valencianes) from 2007 to 2011 and from 2014 to 2015.

==Biography==
Botella served four terms as mayor, having the longest tenure in the city's history. Her tenure coincided with the [Spanish property bubble](/source/Spanish_property_bubble), during which there were many new buildings in the city.<ref name=emv>{{cite news |last1=Fandos |first1=Pascual |title=Muere Lola Botella, la alcadesa más longeva de Carcaixent|trans-title=Lola Botella, longest-serving mayor of Carcaixent, dies|url=https://www.levante-emv.com/ribera/2023/08/31/muere-lola-botella-alcadesa-longeva-91544771.html |access-date=10 May 2024 |work=[Levante-EMV](/source/Levante-EMV) |date=31 August 2023 |language=Spanish}}</ref> In 2015 she chose not to run again, giving her place at the top of the list to the leader of the local PP, Salvador Ferrer.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Sanjuán |first1=H. |last2=Pérez |first2=Iván |last3=Fernández |first3=H. |title=El PP no arriesga y sus alcaldes repiten...|trans-title=PP does not take risks and its mayors run again... |url=https://www.elmundo.es/comunidad-valenciana/2015/03/12/5500aba7268e3ec82f8b4576.html |access-date=10 May 2024 |work=[El Mundo](/source/El_Mundo_(Spain)) |language=Spanish}}</ref>

Botella was elected to the [Corts Valencianes](/source/Corts_Valencianes) in the [2007 Valencian regional election](/source/2007_Valencian_regional_election), running 14th on the PP list in the [Valencia constituency](/source/Valencia_(Corts_Valencianes_constituency)).<ref>{{cite web |title=RESOLUCIÓN de 10 de junio de 2007, de la Junta Electoral de la Comunitat Valenciana, por la que se publican los resultados finales y la relación de diputados y diputadas electos en las elecciones a las Corts Valencianes celebradas el día 27 de mayo de 2007. [2007/7856]|trans-title=RESOLUTION of 10 June 2007, of the Electoral Board of the Valencian Community, by which the final results are published and the list of deputies elected in the elections to the Corts Valencianes held on 27 May 2007 |url=https://dogv.gva.es/datos/2007/06/14/pdf/2007_7856.pdf |publisher=Diari Oficial de la Comunitat Valenciana |access-date=10 May 2024 |language=Spanish |date=14 June 2007}}</ref> She was listed 33rd in [2011](/source/2011_Valencian_regional_election) and was not elected, but returned to her seat in the legislature in July 2014 after 19 names ahead of her had resigned, the last being that of {{ill|Serafín Castellano|es}}.<ref>{{cite news |title=María Dolores Botella jura su cargo en Les Corts|trans-title=María Dolores Botella swears her oath in Les Corts|url=https://www.laverdad.es/alicante/201407/03/maria-dolores-botella-jura-20140703124708.html |access-date=10 May 2024 |work=[La Verdad](/source/La_Verdad_(Murcia)) |agency=[EFE](/source/EFE) |date=3 July 2014 |language=Spanish}}</ref>

In February 2013, Botella was charged with alleged misappropriation of public funds.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Alós |first1=Carlos |title=Imputan a la alcaldesa de Carcaixent por presunta malversación de fondos públicos|trans-title=Mayor of Carcaixent charged with alleged misappropriation of public funds|url=https://www.levante-emv.com/comarcas/2013/02/22/imputan-alcaldesa-carcaixent-presunta-malversacion-12913825.html |access-date=10 May 2024 |work=Levante-EMV |date=22 February 2013 |language=Spanish}}</ref> The investigation was part of the [Gürtel case](/source/G%C3%BCrtel_case).<ref>{{cite news |last1=Ferriol |first1=J. C. |title=El PP limpia de imputados su grupo parlamentario en Valencia tras la salida de Costa y García|trans-title=PP clears its parliamentary group in Valencia of suspects after the exit of Costa and García|url=https://www.lasprovincias.es/politica/201501/02/dimiten-diputados-ricardo-costa-20150102132133-rc_amp.html |access-date=10 May 2024 |work=[Las Provincias](/source/Las_Provincias) |date=2 January 2015 |language=Spanish}}</ref>

Botella died at age 78, after a long illness.<ref name=emv/>

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Category:1945 births
Category:2023 deaths
Category:People from Ribera Alta (comarca)
Category:Mayors of places in the Valencian Community
Category:Women mayors of places in Spain
Category:Members of the 7th Corts Valencianes
Category:Members of the 8th Corts Valencianes
Category:People's Party (Spain) politicians

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