Antolín Sánchez Presedo (born 5 April 1955) is a Spanish politician and

Member of the European Parliament A Member of the European Parliament (MEP) is a person who has been elected to serve as a popular representative in the European Parliament. When the European Parliament (then known as the Common Assembly of the ECSC) first met in 1952, its ...

for the

Spanish Socialist Workers' Party The Spanish Socialist Workers' Party ( es, Partido Socialista Obrero Español ; PSOE ) is a social-democraticThe PSOE is described as a social-democratic party by numerous sources: * * * * political party in Spain. The PSOE has been in gove ...

, part of the

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Early life

Sánchez was born in

Betanzos Betanzos () is a municipality in the autonomous community of Galicia in northwestern Spain in the province of A Coruña. It belongs to the comarca of Betanzos. In Roman times Betanzos was called Flauvium Brigantium or ''Brigantium''. During the ...

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. He obtained an MA in EU from Derecho de la Universidad Carlos III de la Madrid (1994–96), and was a Collaborator Professor MBA at the University of A Coruña from 2001 to 2004.

Political achievements

*Member of the first corporation's democratic Ayuntamiento de Betanzos from 1979 to 1983, the year in which he is elected mayor of this city. *Member of the PSOE Federal Committee between the years 1982–1994. *Secretary General of the PSOE-PSdeG between the years 1985–1994. *Consejero of Planning and Public Works of the Junta of Galicia (1987-1990). *President of the Galician Institute of Housing and Land (1988-1990). *Spokesman of the Socialist Parliamentary Group en el Parlamento Galicia (1990-1994) *Candidate for her presidency of the Junta of Galicia in 1993. *Socialist MEP en el European Parliament since 2004. Member and spokesman of the Socialist Economic Affairs Committee and monetary. Member of Parliament Delegation for relations with Japan and alternate member of the delegation for relations with U.S.

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1955 births Living people People from Betanzos Spanish Socialist Workers' Party MEPs MEPs for Spain 2004–2009 MEPs for Spain 2009–2014 Members of the 1st Parliament of Galicia Members of the 2nd Parliament of Galicia Members of the 3rd Parliament of Galicia Members of the 4th Parliament of Galicia {{Galicia-politician-stub