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Isabel Plácida Bonig Trigueros (Castellón de la Plana, February 25, 1970 - ) is a Spanish politician and lawyer and member of the Spanish People's Party. She was the mayor of the municipality of Vall de Uxó in the Castellón province from 2007 to 2011, and Councilor of Infrastructure, Territory and Environment for the Generalitat Valenciana from 2011 to 2015. Since July 28, 2015, she has been the President of the People's Party of the Valencia Community. She is married with no children.

Biography
Bonig received a law degree from Jaume I University in her birthplace of Castellón de la Plana. Her family is from Castellón province.

Political Career
From a very young age, Bonig had decided to enter into politics. Although she came from a traditionally socialist family, she held a different ideology and became a member of the New Generations of the People's Party of the Valencian Community. Later she became President of the Asociación de La Vall de Futur, where she first gained notoriety and began to appear in the media.

Tenure as Mayor
Before the municipal elections of 2007, the People's Party of Vall d'Uixó chose Bonig as new president of the People's Party in the municipality, replacing Vicente Aparicio, who had spent twelve years as the local leader. On May 27, 2007, Bonig gained an absolute majority in the municipal election, becoming the new Mayor of Vall d'Uxió, succeeding Josep Tur y Rubio; she was inaugurated on June 16. In the municipal elections of 2011, she won reelection with another absolute majority.

During her first term in office, Bonig was named as coordinator of the People's Party of the Valencian Community, and became a trusted associate of the President of the Valencian Community, Francisco Camps.

Tenure as Councilor
During her second term as mayor of Vall d'Uixó, Bonig was asked by Camps to serve as a councilor in the Council of the Generalitat Valenciana. Consequently, she left the mayorship and was replaced by fellow party member Óscar Clavell López.

On June 22, 2011, she was named by President Camps as the new Councilor of Infrastructure, Territory, and the Environment, succeeding two different councilors, Mario Flores Lanuza (Councilor of Infrastructure and Transport) and Juan Gabriel Cotino Ferrer (Councilor of the Environment, Urbanism, and Housing). She remained as Councilor in the new government of President Alberto Fabra.

Tenure as President of the People's Party of the Valencian Community

After the municipal elections, Albert Fabra announced his resignation as President of the People's Party of the Valencian Community and in a press conference with María Dolores de Cospedal announced that Isabel Bonig would be the new president.