José Antonio Pérez Tapias (born 1955) is a Spanish politician, author and university professor. He was a member of the 8th and 9th terms of the

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Biography

Born on 3 June 1955 in

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, he has however been based most of his life in Granada, earning a

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in Theology in 1978, a licentiate degree in Philosophy and Arts in 1981 and a PhD in Philosophy at the

University of Granada The University of Granada ( es, Universidad de Granada, UGR) is a public university located in the city of Granada, Spain, and founded in 1531 by Emperor Charles V. With more than 60,000 students, it is the fourth largest university in Spain. Ap ...

(UGR), reading a dissertation titled ''El pensamiento humanista de Erich Fromm. Crítica y utopía desde Marx y Freud'' in 1990. He is full professor of Philosophy of the UGR. He became a member of the

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(PSOE) in 1993. He ran 5th in the PSOE list for the constituency of Granada vis-à-vis the March 2004 election to the Congress of Deputies. He was not elected then, but he became a member of the 8th term of the Lower House in 2006, covering the vacant seat left by . He renovated his seat in the 2008 election, having run 4th in the PSOE list in Granada. From 2007 to 2011 he was also member of the Spanish delegation to the

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(OSCE). He was one of the members (along Manuel de la Rocha Rubí and Juan Antonio Barrio de Penagos) of the Socialist Parliamentary Group in the Congress who decided not to take part in the September 2011 voting for the reform of the Spanish Constitution struck by the PSOE and the People's Party that sought to include (and successfully did so) the principle of "budgetary stability" in the Article 135 of the text. He was elected Dean of the Faculty of Philosophy and Arts of the UGR on 16 October 2013. A prominent member of ''Izquierda Socialista'' ("Socialist Left"), a left-wing faction within the PSOE, he contested the July 2014 PSOE primary election, drawing the support of a 15% of the voting affiliates, ending up last after winner Pedro Sánchez Pérez-Castejón (49%) and runner-up

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(36%). In January 2018 he reported his discharge as PSOE member, putting an end to a 25-year long membership. A prolific writer for press and specialized journals, he is also the author of several books dealing with political concepts such as "democratic education", "intercultural citizenship" and social democracy. He endorses the idea of a "plurinational federal state" in Spain.

Electoral history

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;Citations ;Bibliography * {{DEFAULTSORT:Perez Tapias, Jose Antonio 1955 births Living people Members of the 8th Congress of Deputies (Spain) Members of the 9th Congress of Deputies (Spain) Academic staff of the University of Granada People from Seville