Alejandro Rojas-Marcos de la Viesca (born 2 September 1940) is a Spanish former politician of the

Andalusian Party The Andalusian Party ( es, Partido Andalucista, PA) was an Andalusian nationalist centre-left political party from Andalusia (Spain), with an important presence in provinces such as Cádiz and Seville although in the past they have stood in other ...

(PA).

Biography

Rojas-Marcos was a member of the

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for

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(1979–1982) and

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(1989–1991). He was also in the

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from 1994 to 1996. In 1991, Rojas-Marcos was elected mayor of Seville after forming a pact with the People's Party led by

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. He remained as first deputy mayor when she succeeded him in 1995. He was mayor at the time of the

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. He dismissed Jesús Aguirre as director of the exposition in October 1991 for having accused him of a lack of cultural knowledge. For the

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, Rojas-Marcos led the

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, a coalition of regionalist and peripheral nationalist parties. The party lost its two seats and received roughly half a million fewer votes than it did

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. He put the blame on himself and the reduction of Spain's seats in the Parliament. After a near total decline in its votes, Rojas-Marcos oversaw the PA's 17th congress in September 2015, in which the party was dissolved and he retired. His younger brother became a noted psychiatrist in the United States.

References

1940 births Living people Seville city councillors Mayors of Seville Members of the 1st Congress of Deputies (Spain) Members of the 4th Congress of Deputies (Spain) Members of the 4th Parliament of Andalusia Andalusian nationalists {{Spain-mayor-stub