In
Spain
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, a president of an Autonomous Community serves as the
chief executive officer
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in each of the seventeen
Autonomous communities
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and in the two
Autonomous cities, where they receive the name of "Mayor-Presidents". As such, regional presidents are responsible for implementing regional laws and overseeing the operation of the state
executive branch
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In poli ...
. As regional leaders, governors advance and pursue new and revised policies and programs using a variety of tools, among them executive laws, executive budgets, and legislative proposals.
The figure of a vice-president is not regulated, and as such, each regional president can decide whether to appoint them or not.
Role and powers
Autonomous communities in Spain have their own set of devolved powers; typically those communities with stronger local nationalism have more powers, and this type of devolution has been called ''asymmetrical''. Some scholars have referred to the resulting system as a federal system in all but name, or a "federation without federalism". Spain is not a
federation
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, but a
decentralized
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Conce ...
unitary state
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. While sovereignty is vested in the nation as a whole, represented in the central institutions of government, the nation has, in variable degrees,
devolved
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power to the communities, which, in turn, exercise their right to self-government within the limits set forth in the constitution and their autonomous statutes.
Each Autonomous community has its own
Statute of Autonomy, and government, consisting of three branches: executive, legislative, and judicial.
The president heads the government's executive branch in each Autonomous community or city and has control over government budgeting and a role in legislation. Spanish regional presidents do not have term limits and as such, they can serve indefinitely.
All regional presidents are indirectly elected, as it is the role of the
regional parliaments to appoint them following regional elections, if they can command a majority.
Presidents of Andalusia, the Basque Country, Catalonia and Galicia, whose Statutes of Autonomy and election laws were created by a special fast procedure, can also select the actual election date and trigger snap elections, and have frequently done so, particularly in the Basque Country and Catalonia. The Andalusian elections are usually set to coincide with the Spanish general elections, but again, there is no requisite to that effect in the Andalusian legislation. In the rest of Autonomies, elections are fixed to a certain common date, which is currently "the fourth Sunday of May each four years".
[Madrid Assembly]
Statute of Autonomy of Madrid
§10.7
History
Demographics
Party
There are currently 9 Autonomous communities with a
Socialist
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president, 6 with a
People's Party president, 3 with regionalist or nationalist presidents and 1 with an independent president.
Tenure
For each term, presidents serve four years in office. All members of regional parliaments are elected for four-year terms, but the president of the community has the faculty to dissolve the legislature and call for early elections. Nonetheless, in all communities except for the
Basque Country,
Catalonia
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Most of the territory (except the Val d'Aran) lies on the north ...
,
Galicia, and
Andalusia
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elections are held the last Sunday of May every four years, concurrent with municipal elections in all Spain.
The longest-serving current president is
Miguel Ángel Revilla
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of
Cantabria
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, who served as president from 2003 to 2011 and again since 2015. The longest-serving continuously president is
Iñigo Urkullu
Íñigo Urkullu Renteria (born 18 September 1961) is a Spanish politician, and the Lehendakari (President) of the Basque Government since 2012.
As the President of the Basque Government, he headed the First, Second and Third Urkullu Governmen ...
from the Basque Country, serving since December 2012.
The longest-serving regional president of all time was
Juan Carlos Rodríguez Ibarra
Juan Carlos Rodríguez Ibarra (Mérida, Spain 19 January 1948) is a Spanish politician of the Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE). He was President of the Regional Government of Extremadura for 24 years (1983–2007).
Biography
He gained a ...
of
Extremadura
Extremadura (; ext, Estremaúra; pt, Estremadura; Fala: ''Extremaúra'') is an autonomous community of Spain. Its capital city is Mérida, and its largest city is Badajoz. Located in the central-western part of the Iberian Peninsula, it ...
, who was elected in 1983 and lasted until 2007, when he returned to his position as professor in the University of Extremadura.
The shortest-serving president of all time was
Antonio Rodríguez Basulto
Antonio Rodríguez Basulto (born 16 April 1945) is a Spanish politician and former president of La Rioja between January and May 1983.
References
Presidents of La Rioja (Spain)
1945 births
Living people
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of
La Rioja
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, who served for 126 days between January 25 and May 30, 1983.
Age
The oldest current regional president is Miguel Ángel Revilla of Cantabria, born on . The youngest current regional president is
Fernando López Miras of the
Region of Murcia
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who was born on .
The youngest regional president to serve was
Joan Lerma
Joan Lerma i Blasco (born 15 July 1951 in Valencia, Spain) is a Spanish politician for the Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE), who served as the first democratically elected President of the Valencian Government since the restoration of de ...
of the Valencian Community (born in 1951), who became President of the Valencian government in 1982, at the age of 31.
Gender
As of March 2021, there are 15 male regional presidents and 4
female regional presidents:
Francina Armengol
Francesca Lluch Armengol i Socias, known as Francina Armengol (born 11 August 1971 in Inca), is a Spanish politician from the Socialist Party of the Balearic Islands
The Socialist Party of the Balearic Islands–PSOE ('' ca, Partit Socialista ...
of the
Balearic Islands,
Concha Andreu
Concepción "Concha" Andreu Rodríguez (born 10 March 1967) is a Spanish oenologist and politician who currently serves as the President of La Rioja. Since 2011 she has been a member of the Parliament of La Rioja.
Biography
Andreu was born in 1 ...
of La Rioja,
Isabel Díaz Ayuso
Isabel Natividad Díaz Ayuso (; born 17 October 1978) is a Spanish politician and journalist serving as the president of the Community of Madrid since 2019. She is the president of the People's Party (Spain), People's Party of Madrid.
A member ...
of the
Community of Madrid
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and
María Chivite
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of
Navarre
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. Of those, Armengol, Andreu and Chivite belong to the social-democratic
Spanish Socialist Workers' Party
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* political party in Spain. The PSOE has been in gov ...
, while Díaz Ayuso is from the conservative
People's Party.
Fifteen women have served or are currently serving as regional presidents, including one in an acting capacity.
Asturias
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It is coextensiv ...
, the Basque Country, the
Canary Islands
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, Cantabria,
Castile and León
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It was created in 1983, eight years after the end of the Francoist regime, by the merging of the ...
,
Catalonia
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Most of the territory (except the Val d'Aran) lies on the north ...
,
Ceuta
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Bordered by Morocco, it lies along the boundary between the Mediterranean Sea and the Atlantic Ocean. It is one of several Spanish territorie ...
,
Extremadura
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,
Galicia,
Melilla
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and the
Valencian Community
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have never had a female regional president.
The first female regional president was
María Antonia Martínez García of the Region of Murcia, who was elected on May 3, 1993, succeeding
Carlos Collado Mena.
The Region of Murcia is the only Autonomous community to have had female regional presidents from both major parties, although conservative
María Dolores Pagán Arce served only in the acting capacity for a short time. Navarre was the first region where a woman followed another woman as regional president, with
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succeeding
Yolanda Barcina (they were from different parties). Uxue Barkos was also succeeded by another woman, current President María Chivite. The Community of Madrid and Navarre have had the most female regional presidents with a total of three, and Navarre is also the first region to have three women in a row serve as president.
The total of five female regional presidents serving from June 25 to July 1, 2015 at the same time is the current record in Spain.
LGBT status
There are currently no regional presidents who identify themselves as
LGBT
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. However, former president of the Canary Islands
Jerónimo Saavedra
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Biography
In 1972 he joined the Spanish So ...
, recognized his homosexuality years after leaving the position.
At the moment he is the only president or former regional president to have declared so.
Birthplace
As no region has laws that establish the need to be born in the region in order to reach the presidency, 21 of the regional presidents were born outside the Autonomous community where they served:
* Andalusia:
Manuel Chaves (Ceuta),
José Antonio Griñán
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(Madrid) and
Juan Manuel Moreno
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(Catalonia).
* Aragon:
Hipólito Gómez de las Roces
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The president of the Government of Aragon ( es, Pres ...
and
Emilio Eiroa (Asturias) and
Luisa Fernanda Rudi
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(Andalusia).
* Asturias:
Juan Luis Rodríguez-Vigil (Castilla-La Mancha) and
Francisco Álvarez-Cascos
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He studied civi ...
(Madrid).
* Balearic Islands:
José Ramón Bauzá (Madrid).
* Canary Islands:
Lorenzo Olarte (Galicia).
* Cantabria:
José Joaquín Martínez
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Club career
Mart� ...
(Basque Country).
* Castile and León:
José María Aznar
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A member of the Fre ...
(Madrid).
* Castilla-La Mancha:
María Dolores de Cospedal
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(Madrid).
* Catalonia:
José Montilla
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(Andalusia).
* Community of Madrid:
Joaquín Leguina
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(Cantabria).
* Region of Murcia:
Pedro Antonio Sánchez (La Rioja).
* Navarre:
Yolanda Barcina (Castile and León).
* Valencian Community:
Eduardo Zaplana (Murcia) and
Jose Luis Olivas (Castilla-La Mancha).
Juan Manuel Moreno (Andalusia) is the only current regional presidents born outside of the Autonomous community he governs.
Apart from those,
Francesc Antich Oliver
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, from the Balearic Islands, was born in
Caracas
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,
Venezuela
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, although he holds Spanish nationality, and
Carlos Collado Mena, from Murcia, was born in
Orléans
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(US) and [France
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, from exiled Spaniards during the
Spanish Civil War
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.
Religion
Although Spain is a still predominantly Catholic country, the latest studies show an increasing decline of
religious beliefs in Spanish society, with the latest
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study conducted in May 2021 indicating that compared to 58.2% of the Spanish population that declare themselves Catholic, 37.5% declare themselves either atheist, agnostic or non-believer. Currently, the presidents of Andalusia, Asturias, the Basque Country, Extremadura, Galicia and Murcia declare themselves as Catholics, while the presidents of Aragon, the Balearic Islands, Cantabria, Catalonia and the Community of Madrid declare themselves to be either atheist or non-believers.
Physical disability
Salary
The highest salary currently being accepted is that of Catalan President Pere Aragonés at €153,235.5 The lowest salary is that of Asturian President Adrián Barbón at €69,128.62.
Seven autonomies (Aragon, Basque Country, Catalonia, La Rioja, Madrid, Castilla-La Mancha and the Balearic Islands) currently offer their presidents a higher salary than the €85,608.72 paid to the
Prime Minister of Spain
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.
Regional election timeline
Each tenure is set to last for four years. Presidents of Andalusia, the Basque Country, Catalonia and Galicia can trigger snap elections, that would then restart the count until the next one. In the rest of Autonomies, elections are fixed to a certain common date, which is currently "the fourth Sunday of May each four years".
If snap elections are triggered in these regions (
''See'' '' 2021 Madrilenian regional elections''), the mandate given to the next elected president would last until the calendar date in which elections would have been called again.
Term limits
The Region of Murcia and Extremadura were the only Autonomous Communities that, since 2014, limit the number of terms of their Presidents. The Region of Murcia sets the limit at two, whether consecutive or not, while Extremadura stated that "not being able to be elected president of the Junta de Extremadura those who have already held this position for two successive terms, unless four years have passed since the end of their term and, in no case, whoever has held this position for at least eight years can be elected". However, in 2019, the article that limited the terms of the President of Extremadura was repealed.
Two more regions, Catalonia and Castilla-La Mancha, have had their Statutes of Autonomy modified to allow their regional parliaments to stablish a term limit, although mandates have not been regulated.
Relationship with vice-president
The existence of the figure of a vice-president varies by Autonomous community. In all communities it is a power of the elected President to appoint a vice-president to replace them if needed, but not all Presidents choose to have an official one, instead appointing a member of their cabinet as their possible replacement.
*Four Autonomous communities have two vice-presidents: The Basque Country (
Josu Erkoreka,
PNV and
Idoia Mendia
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,
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), Galicia (Francisco Conde and Diego Calvo, PP), Navarre (Javier Remírez, PSOE and
José Mari Aierdi,
GBai) and the Valencian Community (
Aitana Mas,
Compromís and
Héctor Illueca,
Podemos).
*Ten Autonomous communities have a vice-president: Those communities are Aragon (
Arturo Aliaga
José Arturo Aliaga López (born 12 October 1955) is a Spanish politician from the Aragonese Party
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,
PAR), Asturias (Juan Cofiño, PSOE), Balearic Islands (
Juan Pedro Yllanes, Podemos), Canary Islands (
Román Rodríguez
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,
Nueva Canarias), Cantabria (
Pablo Zuloaga
Pablo Zuloaga Martínez (born 30 April 1981) is a Spanish politician from the Spanish Socialist Workers' Party
The Spanish Socialist Workers' Party ( es, Partido Socialista Obrero Español ; PSOE ) is a social-democraticThe PSOE is describe ...
,
PSC), Castilla-La Mancha (José Luis Martínez, PSOE), Castile and León (
Juan García-Gallardo,
Vox), Extremadura (Pilar Blanco-Morales, PSOE), Madrid (
Enrique Ossorio, PP) and Murcia (
Isabel Franco, Independent, formerly Citizens).
*Three Autonomous communities do not have a vice-president: Andalusia, Catalonia and La Rioja.
*The two Autonomous cities do not have a vice-president.
Constitutional qualifications by region
In national politics
Many regional presidents have served, in addition to the regional level, at different levels of the national government, before or after their election as regional presidents.
* Andalusia:
**
Manuel Chaves:
Minister of Labour and National Health Service (1986-1990),
Minister of Territorial Policy (2009-2010),
Minister of Territorial Policy and Public Administration (2010-2011),
Third Deputy Prime Minister of Spain
The third deputy prime minister of Spain, officially Third Vice President of the Government of Spain ( es, Vicepresidencia Tercera del Gobierno de España), is a senior member of the Government of Spain. The office of the third deputy prime minist ...
(2009-2011),
Second Deputy Prime Minister of Spain
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(2011).
**
José Antonio Griñán
José Antonio Griñán Martínez (born 7 June 1946) is a Spanish politician. He was the chairman of the centre-left Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE), and from 23 April 2009 until 7 September 2013 he held the position of President of the R ...
:
Minister of Health and Consumption (1992-1993),
Minister of Labour and Social Policy (1993-1996).
* Aragon:
**
Luisa Fernanda Rudí:
President of the Congress of Deputies
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(2000-2004).
* Asturias:
**
Francisco Álvarez-Cascos
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He studied civi ...
:
Deputy Prime Minister of Spain
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(1996-2000).
* Balearic Islands:
**
Jaume Matas
Jaume Matas i Palou (born 5 October 1956 in Palma, Majorca
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:
Minister of the Environment
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(2000-2003).
* Basque Country:
**
Patxi López
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Previously, he has served as President of the Autonomous Communi ...
:
President of the Congress of Deputies
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(2016).
* Canary Islands:
**
Jerónimo Saavedra
Jerónimo Saavedra Acevedo (born 3 July 1936 in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria) is a Spanish politician. He served as President of the Canary Islands twice from 1982 to 1987, and again from 1991 to 1993.
Biography
In 1972 he joined the Spanish So ...
:
Minister of Public Administration
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Present Senior secre ...
(1993-1995),
Minister of Education and Science (1995-1996).
* Castile and León:
**
José María Aznar
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A member of the Fre ...
:
Prime Minister of Spain
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(1996-2004).
**
Jesús Posada
Jesús Posada Moreno (born 4 April 1945) is the former President of the Congress of Deputies, the lower house of the Spanish Cortes Generales. He has worked as a civil engineer and economist.
From 1979 to 1981 he served as civil governor of the ...
:
Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food
The Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food was a United Kingdom cabinet position, responsible for the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food. The post was originally named President of the Board of Agriculture and was created in 1889. ...
(1999-2000),
Minister of Public Administrations (2000-2002),
President of the Congress of Deputies
The president of the Congress of Deputies ( es, Presidente del Congreso de los Diputados) is the speaker of the Congress of Deputies, the lower house of the Cortes Generales (the Spanish parliament). The president is elected among the members o ...
(2011-2016).
**
Juan José Lucas
Juan José Lucas Giménez (born 10 May 1944) is a Spanish attorney, professor and politician in the People's Party.Quién es quién: sus señorías los diputados Manuel Ángel Menéndez Gijón, Manuel Ángel Menéndez, Ignacio Fontes – 2002 ...
:
Minister for the Presidency (2001-2002),
President of the Senate (2002-2004).
* Castilla-La Mancha:
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José Bono
José Bono Martínez (born 14 December 1950) is a politician of the Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE). He served as President of the Congress of Deputies during the 9th Legislature. Before that, he was the Minister of Defence of Spain fro ...
:
Minister of Defence
A defence minister or minister of defence is a cabinet official position in charge of a ministry of defense, which regulates the armed forces in sovereign states. The role of a defence minister varies considerably from country to country; in som ...
(2004-2006),
President of the Congress of Deputies
The president of the Congress of Deputies ( es, Presidente del Congreso de los Diputados) is the speaker of the Congress of Deputies, the lower house of the Cortes Generales (the Spanish parliament). The president is elected among the members o ...
(2008-2011).
**
María Dolores de Cospedal
María Dolores Cospedal García (born 13 December 1965) is a Spanish politician. A member of the People's Party (PP), she served as President of Castile-La Mancha from 2011 to 2015 and as Minister of Defence of the Government of Spain from 201 ...
:
Minister of Defence
A defence minister or minister of defence is a cabinet official position in charge of a ministry of defense, which regulates the armed forces in sovereign states. The role of a defence minister varies considerably from country to country; in som ...
(2016-2018).
* Catalonia:
**
José Montilla
José Montilla Aguilera (born 15 January 1955 in Iznájar, Andalusia, Spain) is a Spanish politician who is currently a member of the Spanish Senate. He was the 128th President of Generalitat de Catalunya. He became the First Secretary of th ...
:
Minister of Industry, Trade and Tourism (2004-2006).
* Galicia:
**
Manuel Fraga
Manuel Fraga Iribarne (; 23 November 1922 – 15 January 2012) was a Spanish professor and politician in Francoist Spain, who was also the founder of the People's Party. Fraga was Minister of Information and Tourism between 1962 and 1969, Amba ...
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Minister of Information and Tourism
Minister may refer to:
* Minister (Christianity), a Christian cleric
** Minister (Catholic Church)
* Minister (government), a member of government who heads a ministry (government department)
** Minister without portfolio, a member of governme ...
(1962-1969),
Minister of the Interior
An interior minister (sometimes called a minister of internal affairs or minister of home affairs) is a cabinet official position that is responsible for internal affairs, such as public security, civil registration and identification, emergency ...
(1975-1976).
* Community of Madrid:
**
Alberto Ruiz-Gallardón
Alberto Ruiz-Gallardón Jiménez (born 11 December 1958) is a Spanish politician and former Minister of Justice. He was mayor of Madrid between 2003 and 2011. A stalwart of the conservative People's Party (PP), he has previously been a leadin ...
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Minister of Justice
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(2011-2014).
**
Esperanza Aguirre
Esperanza Aguirre y Gil de Biedma (; born 3 January 1952) is a Spanish politician. As member of the People's Party (PP), she served as President of the Senate between 1999 and 2002 (becoming the first female politician to have held the post), a ...
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Minister of Education, Culture and Sport (1996-1999),
President of the Senate (1999-2002).
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Cristina Cifuentes
María Cristina Cifuentes Cuencas (born 1 July 1964) is a former Spanish politician from the People's Party. She was the President of the Community of Madrid from 24 June 2015 to her 25 April 2018 resignation. From 16 January 2012 to 13 April 2 ...
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Government Delegate in the Community of Madrid (2012-2015).
* Valencian Community:
**
Eduardo Zaplana:
Minister of Labour and Social Affairs (2002-2004).
See also
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Government of Spain
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Autonomous communities of Spain
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List of female presidents of the autonomous communities of Spain
Footnotes
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