José Antonio Monago Terraza (born 10 January 1966) is a Spanish politician who belongs to the People's Party (PP) who served as President of the Regional Government of Extremadura, the Extremaduran regional administration, from 2011 to 2015. Outside of political life, Monago received a Doctorate in Law from the

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He became Extremaduran regional leader of the PP in 2007 and served as a city councillor in

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and as a PP deputy in the Extremaduran Assembly.Monago sustituye a Floriano como senador por la región
El Periodico de Extremadura, 3 April 2008 The Extremaduran Assembly appointed him to the

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in 2008.

Biography

Monago was chosen as the PP candidate for President of the Regional Government of Extremadura in the 2011 Extremaduran elections. The elections saw the PP emerge as the largest party in Extremadura for the first time, although they fell one seat short of an absolute majority. The outgoing President,

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of the PSOE, attempted to secure re-election by forming a pact with United Left (IU). However IU declined to support the PSOE and abstained in the Presidential vote with the result that Monago became the first PP President of the Regional Government of Extremadura. Nine months later, Monago's minority government is threatened to collapse after the IU agreed to re-negotiate with PSOE after parliamentary elections in

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and

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on 25 March 2012. In November 2014, it was leaked that Monago could have used public money of the Senate in 2009 and 2010 to make 32 visits to his then girlfriend in the

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He promised to give the money back, but he later took that promise back. This issue reached the Supreme Court, which closed the matter because the journalistic information was not credited. "The complaint was inadmissible for not being the facts constituting any criminal offense". Currently, José Antonio Monago is Chairman of the Senate Budget Committee. Monago, presidente la la Comisión de Presupuestos
/ref> He was elected to the

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representing

in the

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Interview in El Pais, 19 June 2011
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