Diego López Garrido (born 8 September 1947) is a Spanish

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and

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in the Spanish Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Cooperation, as well as a former minister of the Spanish government. He's currently Vice-president and Director at Fundación Alternativas.

Biography

Born in

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(

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), he comes from a big family of thirteen siblings, López Garrido attended the

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, the

Complutense University of Madrid The Complutense University of Madrid (, UCM; ) is a public research university located in Madrid. Founded in Alcalá in 1293 (before relocating to Madrid in 1836), it is one of the oldest operating universities in the world, and one of Spain's ...

and the Pontifical University of Comillas, where he graduated in Law and Economics. He later researched at the International Institute of Human Rights. In 1981 he obtained a Ph.D. in

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from the

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. He was a lawyer of the

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from 1975 to 1990, witnessing the coup of

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. In 1993 he was elected to the

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as a deputy for

for the

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(PSOE). Diego López Garrido was spokesman for the PSOE group in the Parliament and held several positions within his party. He holds an academic position as a specialist in Constitutional and European Law.

References

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