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spanish presidents

  • 1976-1981

    1976-1981
    When in July 1976 King Juan Carlos commissioned me to form the second government of his reign and the assembly of Francoist structures, Suarez was a perfect stranger to a majority of the Spanish people. However, at 43, with many difficulties, he was able to bring together a group of politicians of his generation who have reached democratic convictions in different ways.
  • 1981-1982

    1981-1982
    During the vote on his inauguration as President of the Government (February 23, 1981), several armed civil guards who, under the command of Lieutenant Colonel Antonio Tejero, tried to give a military coup d'état, broke into the Congress of Deputies. like 23-F. The government of Calvo-Sotelo was born at a time when popular demonstrations against a political involution, unemployment and the weakness of the permanent political coalition were the protagonists of Spanish public activity.
  • 1982-1996

    1982-1996
    After the victory obtained by the PSOE in the elections of October 28, 1982, in which Felipe González won 48.11% of the votes and 202 deputies, this being the first absolute majority of a party in democracy in Spain, In addition to occupying the highest number of deputies to date, was elected president of the Spanish Government by the Congress of Deputies, and headed a government with Alfonso Guerra de vice president.
  • 1996-2004

    1996-2004
    Aznar reached the Pact of the Majestic with CiU through which they would receive their support in the Congress of Deputies in exchange for the support of the Popular Party of Catalonia in the autonomic parliament. The agreement also included the transfer of powers and the end of compulsory military service. The percentage of VAT and income tax transferred to the Autonomous Communities went from 15 to 30% of the total collected
  • 2004-2011

    2004-2011
    On April 17, 2004 the President of the Government, José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero, promised his position before S.M. the King, Juan Carlos I. The next day, the members of the Council of Ministers were sworn in or promised their position. There were eight ministers and eight ministers. It was the first parity government in the history of Spain.36 And it should be noted that María Teresa Fernández de la Vega became the first woman to accede to the position of vice president of the government.
  • 2011-2015

    2011-2015
    On December 20, 2011, Mariano Rajoy was sworn in as president of the Government and on the 21st he was sworn in before the king. the leader of the PSOE, Pedro Sanchez, promoted a motion of censure against Rajoy that was voted on Friday, June 1, 2018. It took 176 votes to go ahead. In the debate of the previous day a sufficient number of deputies expressed their intention to support it and finally 180 deputies supported it against 169 who did not and one abstention. 267
  • 2018-en el cargo

    2018-en el cargo
    Pedro Sánchez Pérez-Castejón (Madrid, February 29, 1972) is a Spanish politician and economist. Since June 2, 2018, he is the seventh president of the Government of Spain, and he is also general secretary of the Spanish Socialist Workers Party (PSOE) since 2017.