Juan José Güemes (full name Juan José Güemes Barrios) is a Spanish politician, a former member of the Madrid Assembly from the People's Party who served as

Minister of Health A health minister is the member of a country's government typically responsible for protecting and promoting public health and providing welfare spending and other social security services. Some governments have separate ministers for mental heal ...

and Minister of

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and

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for the

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. During his term as Health Minister of the region of Madrid, Güemes opposed

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as an infringement of individual liberty, saying, "you never get good results from banning something". In 2010, he was appointed President of the International Center for Entrepreneurial Management at

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. In 2011 he was a Multi Nation Program Eisenhower Fellow. In 2013, he is declared innocent after being charged for alleged bribery and malfeasance by management privatization of public hospitals in Madrid during his mandate at the Ministry of Health for the region of Madrid (2007–2010)."Archivada la querella de AFEM contra Güemes, Lamela y otros ex altos cargos de Sanidad (in Spanish)" El Mundo
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References

External links

Güemes' Facebook page
Living people People's Party (Spain) politicians Government ministers of the Community of Madrid Members of the 6th Assembly of Madrid Members of the 7th Assembly of Madrid Members of the 8th Assembly of Madrid Members of the People's Parliamentary Group (Assembly of Madrid) Year of birth missing (living people) {{Madrid-politician-stub