Francisco "Paco" Frutos Gras was a Spanish politician who served,from 1998 until 2009,as the Secretary-General of the Communist Party of Spain (PCE).
The Palace of Moncloa or Moncloa Palace is the official residence and workplace of the Prime Minister of Spain. It is located in Puerta de Hierro Avenue,in the Moncloa-Aravaca district in Madrid. It has been the official residence of the Prime Minister since 1977,when Adolfo Suárez moved the residence from the Palace of Villamejor.
María del Carmen Calvo Poyato is a Spanish politician and author who served as Deputy Prime Minister of Spain and Minister of the Presidency from 2018 to 2021.
Joan Lerma i Blasco 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 democracy in the 1970s.
JoséAntonio Griñán Martínez 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 Regional Government of Andalusia. He was sentenced to 6 years of prison due to prevarication and embezzlement of public funds in the granting of aid to companies in crisis for 10 years worth 680 million euros.
JoséMaría Barreda Fontes is a Spanish politician and historian. A member of the Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE),he served as President of the Junta of Communities of Castilla–La Mancha from 2004 until 2011. As of 2019,he works as senior lecturer of Contemporary History at the University of Castilla–La Mancha.
María Dolores Cospedal García 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 2016 to 2018. She also was the PP's Secretary-General,second to party president Mariano Rajoy,from 2008 to 2018.
The Cortes of Castilla–La Mancha is the unicameral legislature of Castilla–La Mancha,an autonomous community of Spain. The Cortes consists of 33 elected deputies. The Cortes of Castilla–La Mancha represent the popular will through 33 deputies elected by universal adult suffrage through the secret ballot.
The 2014 Extraordinary Federal Congress of the Spanish Socialist Workers' Party was held in Madrid from 26 to 27 July 2014,to renovate the governing bodies of the Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE) and establish the party's main lines of action and strategy for the next leadership term. A primary election to elect the new party secretary-general was held on 13 July. The congress was called by outgoing PSOE leader Alfredo Pérez Rubalcaba after his party's poor results at the 2014 European Parliament election,garnering just 23% of the vote. Rubalcaba announced his intention not to run for either his party's leadership or for the 2015 Spanish general election.
Juan Gabriel Cotino Ferrer was a Spanish entrepreneur and politician.
The 18th National Congress of the People's Party was held in Madrid from 10 to 12 February 2017,to renovate the governing bodies of the People's Party (PP) and establish the party's main lines of action and strategy for the next leadership term. The congress was initially due for 2015,but the various elections held in Spain that year and the deadlock in the government formation negotiations leading up to the 2016 general election,as well as a major crisis over the issue within the opposition Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE),saw the event being delayed until early 2017.
Félix Sanz Roldán is a retired Spanish Army general and intelligence officer who served as Director of the National Intelligence Centre (CNI) from July 2009 to July 2019. He served as Chief of the Defence Staff (JEMAD) of the Spanish Armed Forces during the first government of prime minister JoséLuis Rodríguez Zapatero (2004–2008).
The 19th National Congress of the People's Party,officially the 19th Extraordinary National Congress,was held in Madrid from 20 to 21 July 2018,to renovate the governing bodies of the People's Party (PP) and establish the party's main lines of action and strategy for the next leadership term. A primary election to elect the new party president was held on 5 July. The congress was called by the party's National Board of Directors on 11 June as a consequence of former Spanish prime minister Mariano Rajoy's resignation as PP leader on 5 June,following the motion of no confidence that had voted his government down on 1 June. The leadership election was the first whereby PP members directly participate in choosing a leader for the party. On 26 June 2018,it was announced that only 66,706 PP members out of the 869,535 reported by the party had registered to vote in the election.
María Margarita Robles Fernández is a Spanish judge and politician,currently serving as Minister of Defence since June 2018. From November 2019 to January 2020,she served as Acting Minister of Foreign Affairs.
The Director-General of the Police (DGP) of Spain is a high-ranking official in the Ministry of the Interior. The Director-General is nominated by the Minister of Home Affairs after consulting to the Council of Ministers and he or she is appointed by the Monarch. The director general reports directly to the Secretary of State for Security and has rank of Under Secretary.
Ignacio CosidóGutiérrez is a Spanish conservative politician,member of the People's Party (PP). He has been member of both the Lower and Upper House of the Cortes Generales,and directed the National Police Corps from 2012 to 2016. From 2018 to 2019,he served as Spokesperson of the PP parliamentary group in the Senate.
JoséLuis Martínez-Almeida Navasqüés is a Spanish state lawyer and politician. A member of the People's Party (PP),he has been a member of the Madrid City Council since 2015 and has been Mayor of Madrid since 2019.
In Spain,a president of an Autonomous Community serves as the chief executive officer in each of the seventeen Autonomous communities 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. 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.
