José Manuel Rodríguez Uribes (born 9 October 1968) is a Spanish philosopher of law and politician of the

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(PSOE) who has been serving as Minister of Culture and Sport in the

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

since 2020. He is also a member of the PSOE's federal executive board. Rodríguez Uribes was a member of the

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from 2019 to 2020. He served as

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in the Community of Madrid between 2018 and 2019.

Early life and education

Born in

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on 9 October 1968, Rodríguez Uribes earned a

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in law at the

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(UV); he later obtained a PhD in the same field at the

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(UC3M), reading a dissertation in 1998 titled ''Los discursos democrático y liberal sobre la opinión pública (dos modelos, Rousseau y Constant)'' and supervised by Gregorio Peces Barba.

Early career

Rodríguez Uribes was appointed Director General in Support of the Victims of Terrorism in September 2006. He held the post until December 2011, when

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became prime minister. Rodríguez Uribes has worked as tenured professor both at the UV and the UC3M.

Political career

Rodríguez Uribes joined the Federal Executive Board of the

(PSOE) led by

in June 2017, tasked in the area of Laicity. Following the investiture of Sánchez as prime minister in June 2018, Rodríguez Uribes was chosen to replace Concepción Dancausa at the helm of the Government Delegation in the Community of Madrid. His appointment was sanctioned through an 18 June

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, swearing in the post on 25 June. Rodríguez Uribes remained in office until April 2019 as he was included then in the 3rd place of the PSOE list for the

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led by

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. As an elected member of the 11th term of the regional legislature, Rodríguez Uribes became the attached spokesperson of the Socialist Parliamentary Group.

Minister of Culture and Sport, 2020–present

Appointed Minister of Culture and Sport of the

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, Rodríguez Uribes assumed office on 13 January 2020. Amid the

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, Rodríguez Uribes led efforts to re-open the country's public life by announcing in May 2021 that a maximum of 5,000 spectators would be able to attend soccer games in regions with fewer than 50 COVID-19 cases per 100,000 inhabitants.Spain to allow spectators back to matches
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'', May 12, 2021.

Works

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References

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