Ángel Gabilondo Pujol (born 1 March 1949) is a Spanish

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, currently serving as the 6th Ombudsman of Spain. Between 2009 and 2011, he was Minister of Education in

José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero (; born 4 August 1960) is a Spanish politician and member of the Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE). He was the Prime Minister of Spain being elected for two terms, in the 2004 and 2008 general elections ...

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. In June 2011, he received the Medalla de Oro for the

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. On 30 December 2011 he received a condecoration for the

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and also the Orden de Alfonso X el Sabio on 26 December 2014. In 2015, he was named

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's candidate for the

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2015 election. He returned to be a candidate for the 2016 election. Suggested by

Pedro Sánchez Pedro Sánchez Pérez-Castejón (; born 29 February 1972) is a Spanish politician who has been Prime Minister of Spain since June 2018. He has also been Secretary-General of the Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE) since June 2017, having pr ...

, he was again the PSOE candidate for the 2019 election. In October 2018, he offered himself to be the

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, in order to succeed

Ángel Garrido Ángel Garrido García (born 7 April 1964) is a Spanish politician who served as President of the Community of Madrid between April 2018 and April 2019. He was a member of the People's Party until 24 April 2019, only four days ahead of the 201 ...

. In October 2021, after an agreement between major parties of the Cortes Generales, he was nominated to be the 6th

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. The

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Joint Committee on Relations with the Ombudsman ratified the nomination on 27 October 2021 and it sent the candidacy to the Plenary for a final voting. He is the brother of Spanish journalist

Iñaki Gabilondo José Ignacio Gabilondo Pujol (born 19 October 1942, in San Sebastián) better known as Iñaki Gabilondo is a Spanish journalist, and TV news anchor. Gabilondo started his career at 21 (1963) in Radio Popular (COPE) until 1969, when he became t ...

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* 1949 births Autonomous University of Madrid alumni Living people Politicians from San Sebastián Members of the 10th Assembly of Madrid Members of the Socialist Parliamentary Group (Assembly of Madrid) Members of the 11th Assembly of Madrid Ombudsmen in Spain {{Spain-academic-bio-stub