On 25 April 2018 Cifuentes resigned as President of the Community of Madrid, after the release of a 2011 video that shows her being detained in a supermarket for shoplifting, and in the wake of strong evidence that her Master's degree was fraudulently obtained. Ángel Garrido became then acting president of the regional government. Following his investiture by the regional parliament on 17–18 May, he was sworn into office on 21 May 2018. Once Isabel Díaz Ayuso was designated as the leader of the PP list in the upcoming 2019 Madrilenian regional election and Garrido was selected as candidate within the PP list for the 2019 European Parliament election, the latter handed in his resignation as regional president on 11 April 2019.