Juan Pascual Azorín Soriano (born 6 August 1951,

Yecla Yecla () is a town and municipality in eastern Spain, in the extreme north of the autonomous community of Murcia, located 96 km from the capital of the region, Murcia. Toponymy The origin of the term Yecla comes from the Arabic Yakka, which wa ...

) is a Spanish

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. At the moment, he is the

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Elda Elda is a city and municipality located in the province of Alicante, Spain. , it has a total population of 55,618 inhabitants, ranking as the 7th most populous city in the province. Elda joins together with the town of Petrer to form a conurba ...

and

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for

Alicante Alicante ( ca-valencia, Alacant) is a city and municipality in the Valencian Community, Spain. It is the capital of the province of Alicante and a historic Mediterranean port. The population of the city was 337,482 , the second-largest in th ...

in the

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. He belongs to PSPV-PSOE. He moved with his family to Elda at the age of eighteen months. In 1983 he was chosen town councillor in the lists of the Independent candidates of Elda (Candidatura Independiente de Elda) and later he joined the PSOE. In 1985 he was appointed General Secretary of the

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, a trade union historically linked to the PSPV-PSOE in the

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of Alt Vinalopó. As town councillor he occupied the post of ''Personnel'' and ''Industry'', until in 1996 he held the post of Mayor of Elda. He was also President of PSPV-PSOE too. At the

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he was placed seventh on the PSPV-PSOE list for

Alicante Province Alicante ( ca-valencia, Alacant) is a province of eastern Spain, in the southern part of the Valencian Community. It is the second most populated Valencian province. Likewise, the second and third biggest cities in the Valencian Community (Alica ...

. With the party winning just five seats he failed to be elected, however as the PSPV-PSOE's second substitute he joined the Congress in 1999 as substitute for

Pedro Solbes Pedro Solbes Mira (born 31 August 1942 in Pinoso, Alicante) is a Spanish economist. He was the president of FRIDE, Madrid-based think tank. Career While independent in the sense of not affiliated to any party, his various ministerial roles in S ...

. He was not reelected at the 2000 General Election but was elected to the Senate at the 2004 General Election, retaining his seat at the 2008 General Election.Spanish Senate election results
In the Senate he has held various posts such as ''First Vice president'' in the Industry, Tourism and Commerce Commission, and ''First Secretary'' in the Local Entities Commission, and he is ''President of Honour'' in the Commercial Institute of Alicante.

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Members of the 6th Congress of Deputies (Spain) 1951 births Living people Politicians from the Valencian Community Spanish Socialist Workers' Party politicians Members of the Senate of Spain {{Valencia-politician-stub