Alejandro Rojas-Marcos de la Viesca (born 2 September 1940) is a Spanish former politician of the Andalusian Party (PA).
Alejandro Rojas-Marcos de la Viesca (born 2 September 1940) is a Spanish former politician of the Andalusian Party (PA).
Rojas-Marcos was a member of the Congress of Deputies for Cádiz (1979–1982) and Seville (1989–1991). [1] He was also in the Andalusian Parliament from 1994 to 1996.
In 1991, Rojas-Marcos was elected mayor of Seville after forming a pact with the People's Party led by Soledad Becerril. He remained as first deputy mayor when she succeeded him in 1995. [2] He was mayor at the time of the Seville Expo '92. He dismissed Jesús Aguirre as director of the exposition in October 1991 for having accused him of a lack of cultural knowledge. [3]
For the 2004 European Parliament election in Spain, Rojas-Marcos led the European Coalition, a coalition of regionalist and peripheral nationalist parties. The party lost its two seats and received roughly half a million fewer votes than it did in 1999. He put the blame on himself and the reduction of Spain's seats in the Parliament. [4]
After a near total decline in its votes, Rojas-Marcos oversaw the PA's 17th congress in September 2015, in which the party was dissolved and he retired. [5]
His younger brother Luis Rojas-Marcos became a noted psychiatrist in the United States. [6]
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