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Miguel Ángel Rodríguez Bajón
Miguel Ángel Rodríguez Bajón (born 1964), often going by the MAR acronym, is a Spanish politician, publicist, media consultant and journalist. Biography He was born in 1964 in Valladolid. A young journalist writing for the ''El Norte de Castilla'', the "Bachiller" (as Miguel Ángel Rodríguez was sometimes known for his lack of higher studies) met José María Aznar (then bidding for the presidency of the Junta of Castile and León) in the campaign bus before the 1987 Castilian-Leonese regional election. Following the election, Aznar, who was invested regional president, appointed Rodríguez as Spokesperson of the Junta of Castile and León; Rodríguez served for the 1987–1989 spell during which Aznar presided the regional government. During his mandate as Spokesperson of the regional government in Castile and León, he reportedly elaborated a blacklist of journalists, compiling political, personal and professional assessments on 12 journalists. He has been mentioned as ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Member Of The Congress Of Deputies
The Congress of Deputies ( es, link=no, Congreso de los Diputados, italic=unset) is the lower house of the Cortes Generales, Spain's legislative branch. The Congress meets in the Palace of the Parliament () in Madrid. It has 350 members elected by constituencies (matching fifty Spanish provinces and two autonomous cities) by closed list proportional representation using the D'Hondt method. Deputies serve four-year terms. The presiding officer is the President of the Congress of Deputies, who is elected by the members thereof. It is the analogue to a speaker. In the Congress, MPs from the political parties, or groups of parties, form parliamentary groups. Groups must be formed by at least 15 deputies, but a group can also be formed with only five deputies if the parties got at least 5% of the nationwide vote, or 15% of the votes in the constituencies in which they ran. The deputies belonging to parties who cannot create their own parliamentary group form the Mixed Group. Af ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Manuel Fraga
Manuel Fraga Iribarne (; 23 November 1922 – 15 January 2012) was a Spanish professor and politician in Francoist Spain, who was also the founder of the People's Party. Fraga was Minister of Information and Tourism between 1962 and 1969, Ambassador to the United Kingdom between 1973 and 1975, Minister of the Interior in 1975, Second Deputy Prime Minister between 1975 and 1976, President of the People's Alliance/People's Party between 1979 and 1990 and President of the Regional Government of Galicia between 1990 and 2005. He was also a Member of the Congress of Deputies and a Senator. Fraga's career as one of the key political figures in Spain straddles both General Francisco Franco's regime and the subsequent transition to representative democracy. He served as the President of the Regional Government of Galicia from 1990 to 2005 and as a Senator until November 2011. Fraga is also one of the Fathers of the Constitution. Biography Early life Fraga was born in Vilalba, Lugo Pro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alfredo Pérez Rubalcaba
Alfredo Pérez Rubalcaba (; 28 July 1951 – 10 May 2019) was a Spanish statesman, politician and chemist who served as Deputy Prime Minister of Spain from 2010 to 2011, and previously as Minister of Education from 1992 to 1993, as Minister of the Presidency from 1993 to 1996, as Minister of the Interior from 2006 to 2011 and as acting Minister of Defence between May and June 2008. He also served as Leader of the Opposition from 2011 to 2014 and as Secretary-General of the Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE) from 2012 to 2014. He obtained a PhD in Organic Chemistry at the Complutense University of Madrid. Life and career He was born in Solares village, municipality of Medio Cudeyo, in the province of Santander. Moved at age 3 to Madrid with his family, he studied at the Colegio del Pilar. He obtained a doctorate in chemistry at Complutense University in Madrid, where he went on to become a professor of chemistry, specialising in reaction mechanisms in organic chemistry. He ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ignacio Aguado
Ignacio Jesús Aguado Crespo (born 23 February 1983) is a Spanish lawyer and politician from Citizens (Cs), serving as the party's spokesman in the Assembly of Madrid The Assembly of Madrid or Madrid Assembly ( es, Asamblea de Madrid) is the unicameral autonomous legislature of the Autonomous Community of Madrid since the approval of the Madrid Charter of Autonomy in 1983. It is elected every four years durin ... and as Vice President, Cabinet Minister of Sports and Transparency and Spokesperson of the Government of the Community of Madrid between 2019 and 2021. References External linksIgnacio Aguado Facebook Official fanpage 1983 births Living people Citizens (Spanish political party) politicians People from Madrid Members of the 10th Assembly of Madrid Members of the Citizens Parliamentary Group (Assembly of Madrid) Members of the 11th Assembly of Madrid {{Madrid-politician-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2019 Madrilenian Regional Election
The 2019 Madrilenian regional election was held on Sunday, 26 May 2019, to elect the 11th Assembly of the Community of Madrid. All 132 seats in the Assembly were up for election. The election was held simultaneously with regional elections in eleven other autonomous communities and local elections all throughout Spain, as well as the 2019 European Parliament election. As a result of the election, the Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE) emerged as the largest political party in a Madrilenian regional election for the first time since 1987, but failed short of securing a majority together with Íñigo Errejón's Más Madrid and Unidas Podemos, the latter of which barely surpassed the 5% threshold to win seats in the Assembly. Instead, a right-of-centre alliance between the People's Party (PP), Citizens (Cs) and far-right Vox was able to muster a majority to form a government, which resulted in the election of PP candidate Isabel Díaz Ayuso as new regional president. Overview ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Isabel Díaz Ayuso
Isabel Natividad Díaz Ayuso (; born 17 October 1978) is a Spanish politician and journalist serving as the president of the Community of Madrid since 2019. She is the president of the People's Party of Madrid. A member of the People's Party, and the vice-secretary of communication and spokeswoman of the party's Madrilenian branch, she was the regional candidate for president of the Community of Madrid ahead of the 2019 Madrilenian regional election. Although her party lost the regional elections for the first time since May 1991, she was later elected president by the Assembly of Madrid. Her administration represented several firsts: it was the first time that the region was run by a coalition government—formed by Ayuso's own conservative People's Party (PP) and Citizens (Spanish political party), Citizens—and it was the first time that Vox (political party), Vox propped up an autonomous executive in Madrid. Personal life Born on 17 October 1978 in Madrid in the Cham ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Luis Montes Mieza
Luis Montes Mieza (1949 – 19 April 2018), was a Spanish anesthetist and pro-euthanasia activist. He was the Federal President of the association "Derecho a Morir Dignamente" from 2009 till his death. Academic and professional biography Montes had a degree in Medicine from the Complutense University of Madrid. In 1987 he joined as an anesthesiologist in the recently created Hospital Severo Ochoa of Leganés, of which he was Director and, since 2000, Emergency Coordinator of the Hospital, a position he held until 2005. At the time of his death, he was a physician in the Emergency Department of the Severo Ochoa Hospital in Leganés. Leganés case Complaint of the Regional Ministry of Health of the Community of Madrid against Luis Montes and Miguel Ángel López - Dismissed In May 2005 Luis Montes Mieza and Miguel Ángel López Varas were investigated by the Health Department of the Community of Madrid, by Manuel Lamela Fernández, because of two anonymous denunciati ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Josep Piqué
Josep Piqué i Camps (born 21 February 1955 in Vilanova i la Geltrú) is a Spanish politician of the right-leaning Spanish People's Party (PP) who represented Barcelona. Pique was initially a member of the Unified Socialist Party of Catalonia (PSUC) but left the grouping and subsequently joined the Union of the Democratic Centre. Political career Between 1986 and 1988, Piqué served as Director General of Industry under the Convergence and Union government of Catalonia. After the People's Party election in 1996, Piqué was appointed Spanish Minister for Industry as an independent member. He served as Spain's foreign minister from 2000 to 2002. In this capacity, he steered Spain’s foreign policy during its six-month presidency of the Council of the European Union. As part of a cabinet reshuffle, he was replaced by Ana de Palacio y del Valle-Lersundi and instead took over the Ministry of Science and Technology, which oversees the telecommunications industry. At the time, he was ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aznar I Government
Aznar is a Spanish and Gascon surname of Basque origin and an obsolete given name. It probably stems from old Basque "azenar(i)" ('fox', modern "azeri"). Notable people with this name include the following: Surname * Juan Bautista Aznar-Cabañas (1860–1933), Spanish politician and prime minister briefly in 1931 * José María Aznar (born 1953), Spanish politician, conservative prime minister * Emmanuel Aznar (1915–1970), French footballer * Manuel Aznar Acedo (1916–2001), Spanish journalist and radio broadcaster * Manuel Aznar Zubigaray (1894–1975), Spanish diplomat and journalist * Pedro Aznar (born 1959), Argentine musician Given name * Aznar Sánchez (died 836), Duke of Gascony * Aznar Galíndez I (died 839), Count of Aragón, Conflent, Cerdagne and Urgel * Aznar Galíndez II Aznar Galíndez II was a Count of Aragón (867–893), son and successor of Galindo Aznárez I. Aznar married Oneca, daughter of the king of Pamplona, Garcia Iñíguez, and had: *Gal ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Spokesperson Of The Government Of Spain
The Spokesperson of the Government of Spain is a high ranking of the Government of Spain whose purpose is to inform and communicate to society the political and institutional action of the central government. Its headquarters is located in the denominated Complex of La Moncloa. Currently the holder of the position enjoys the rank of Minister. History The need to inform public opinion about government actions began in 1918 with the creation of the Ministry of Public Instruction and Fine Arts which had an Information Office. With the dictatorship of Primo de Rivera two successive organisms are created; First, the Bureau of Information and Press Censorship, during the Military Directory (1923), and the next in the Civil Directory (1925) with the Office of Information and Press Censorship. During the Second Republic was born the Press Section affected the General Secretary of the President of the Republic (1932) and during the civil war, Largo Caballero, the prime minister, crea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Congress Of Deputies
The Congress of Deputies ( es, link=no, Congreso de los Diputados, italic=unset) is the lower house of the Cortes Generales, Spain's legislative branch. The Congress meets in the Palacio de las Cortes, Madrid, Palace of the Parliament () in Madrid. It has 350 members elected by constituency, constituencies (matching fifty Provinces of Spain, Spanish provinces and two Autonomous cities of Spain, autonomous cities) by closed list proportional representation using the D'Hondt method. Deputies serve four-year terms. The presiding officer is the President of the Congress of Deputies, who is elected by the members thereof. It is the analogue to a speaker. In the Congress, MPs from the List of political parties in Spain, political parties, or groups of parties, form Parliamentary group (Spain), parliamentary groups. Groups must be formed by at least 15 deputies, but a group can also be formed with only five deputies if the parties got at least 5% of the nationwide vote, or 15% of the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
