Juan Antonio Barranco Gallardo (born 13 August 1947 in Santiago de Calatrava, Jaén Province) is a retired Spanish politician in 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 ...

. He was

Mayor of Madrid The Mayor of Madrid presides over the Madrid City Council, the government body of the capital city of Spain. The mayor has the duty of boosting the local policies, it directs the action of the other executive bodies, leads the Local Executive Admi ...

following the 1986 death of

Enrique Tierno Galván Enrique Tierno Galván (Madrid, 8 February 1918 – Madrid, 19 January 1986) was a Spanish politician, sociologist, lawyer and essayist, best known for being the Mayor of Madrid from 1979 to 1986, at the beginning of the new period of Spanish de ...

, who had been Mayor since 1979. Barranco won the following municipal elections in 1987, but lost the mayoral race in June 1989. Juan Barranco was a municipal councillor for Madrid from 1983 to 1999. He was also a Senator for

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from 1989 until 2008 when he returned to the congress of deputies, again representing

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Biography at Spanish Congress site
1947 births Living people People from the Province of Jaén (Spain) Mayors of Madrid Spanish Socialist Workers' Party politicians Members of the Senate of Spain Members of the constituent Congress of Deputies (Spain) Members of the 1st Congress of Deputies (Spain) Members of the 2nd Congress of Deputies (Spain) Members of the 9th Congress of Deputies (Spain) Members of the 9th Assembly of Madrid Madrid city councillors (1987–1991) Madrid city councillors (1983–1987) Madrid city councillors (1991–1995) Members of the Socialist Parliamentary Group (Assembly of Madrid) First deputy mayors of Madrid {{Madrid-politician-stub