Spanish presidents in the democratic period.

  • Adolfo Suárez

    Adolfo Suárez
    He was the first president at the beginning of democracy.As President of the Government, Suarez was one of the key figures of the Spanish Transition, the process through which the dictatorial regime of Francisco Franco and Spain was left behind, was constituted a social and democratic State of law.
  • Leopoldo Calvo Sotelo

    Leopoldo Calvo Sotelo
    Marqués de la Ría de Ribadeo and great of Spain, was an engineer of roads, channels and ports and Spanish politician, second president of the Government of Spain since the restoration of democracy between February 1981 and December 1982, during the legislature.
  • Felipe González

    Felipe González
    Is a lawyer, university professor and politician, general secretary of the Spanish Socialist Workers Party (PSOE) from 1974 to 1997 and third president of the Government of Spain since the restoration of democracy, between 1982 and 1996.
  • José María Aznar

    José María Aznar
    He was of the PP.fourth president of the Government of Spain since the restoration of democracy in the sixth and seventh legislatures of Spain, from 1996 to 2004. He is a member of the Popular Party, of which he was president between 1990 and 2004.Aznar and the Popular Party won the general elections of 1996, but by not reaching the absolute majority, Aznar was appointed president of the government with the support, prior agreement, of the Catalan nationalist parties.
  • Jose Luis Rodríguez Zapatero

    Jose Luis Rodríguez Zapatero
    He is a socialist politician and Spanish State Councilor. Member of the Spanish Socialist Workers Party, he has been the fifth president of the Government since the democratic transition, after his victory in the general elections of 2004, and again in the ix legislature, after revalidating his position in the 2008 elections.He left the presidency on February 9, 2012.
  • Mariano Rajoy

    Mariano Rajoy
    He was the sixth president of the Government of Spain from 2011 to 2018, during the X and the XII legislatures, and acting President of the Government during the brief XI term.As a result of the victory of his party by an absolute majority in the general elections of November 20, 2011, on December 21, 2011 he became the sixth president of the Government of Democracy. Renewed mandate for a second term after being vested by the Congress of Deputies and by simple majority in 2016.
  • Pedro Sánchez

    Pedro Sánchez
    Is the seventh president of the Government of Spain, and is also general secretary of the Spanish Socialist Workers Party (PSOE) since 2017. After the success of the motion of censure against Mariano Rajoy, Sánchez was inaugurated as president of the Government in June 2018. It is the seventh head of government of the current democratic period.