Juan José Güemes (full name Juan José Güemes Barrios) is a Spanish politician, a former member of the
Madrid Assembly from the
People's Party who served as
Minister of Health and Minister of
Employment
Employment is a relationship between two parties regulating the provision of paid labour services. Usually based on a contract, one party, the employer, which might be a corporation, a not-for-profit organization, a co-operative, or any othe ...
and
Diversity for the
Autonomous Community of Madrid.
During his term as Health Minister of the region of Madrid, Güemes opposed
smoking bans as an infringement of individual liberty, saying, "you never get good results from banning something".
In 2010, he was appointed President of the International Center for Entrepreneurial Management at
IE Business School.
In 2011 he was a Multi Nation Program
Eisenhower Fellow
Eisenhower Fellowships is a private, non-profit organization created in 1953 by a group of prominent American citizens to honor President Dwight D. Eisenhower for his contribution to humanity as a soldier, statesman, and world leader. The organiz ...
.
In 2013, he is declared innocent after being charged for alleged bribery and malfeasance by management privatization of public hospitals in Madrid during his mandate at the Ministry of Health for the region of Madrid (2007-2010).
"Archivada la querella de AFEM contra Güemes, Lamela y otros ex altos cargos de Sanidad (in Spanish)" El Mundo
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References
External links
Güemes' Facebook page
Living people
People's Party (Spain) politicians
Government ministers of the Community of Madrid
Members of the 6th Assembly of Madrid
Members of the 7th Assembly of Madrid
Members of the 8th Assembly of Madrid
Members of the People's Parliamentary Group (Assembly of Madrid)
Year of birth missing (living people)
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