The Deputy Prime Minister of Spain, Vice President of the Government or First Deputy Prime Minister (when there is more than one deputy prime minister) is the second highest position in the Government of Spain. Between 1840 and 1934 the title was Vice President of the Council of Ministers. Since its creation, there have been twenty-one deputy prime ministers.
Office name:
Portrait | Name (Birth–Death) | Term of office | Party | Government | Prime Minister (Tenure) | Ref. | ||||
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Took office | Left office | Duration | ||||||||
Joaquín María Ferrer (1777–1861) | 3 October 1840 | 10 May 1841 | 219 days | Progressive (Esparterist) | Espartero II | Baldomero Espartero (1840–1841) | [1] [2] | |||
Office disestablished during this interval. | ||||||||||
Severiano Martínez Anido (1862–1938) | 3 December 1925 | 30 January 1930 | 4 years and 58 days | Military | Civil Directory | Miguel Primo de Rivera (1923–1930) | [3] [4] | |||
Office disestablished during this interval. | ||||||||||
Diego Martínez Barrio (1883–1962) | 22 December 1933 | 3 March 1934 | 71 days | PRR | Lerroux II | Alejandro Lerroux (1933–1934) | [5] [6] | |||
Office disestablished during this interval. | ||||||||||
Francisco Gómez-Jordana (1876–1944) | 31 January 1938 | 9 August 1939 | 1 year and 190 days | National Movement (Military) | Franco I | Francisco Franco (1938–1973) | [7] [8] | |||
Office disestablished during this interval. | ||||||||||
Agustín Muñoz Grandes (1896–1970) | 11 July 1962 | 28 July 1967 | 5 years and 17 days | National Movement (Military) | Franco VI | Francisco Franco (1938–1973) | [9] [10] | |||
Franco VII | ||||||||||
Luis Carrero Blanco (1904–1973) | 22 September 1967 | 9 June 1973 | 5 years and 260 days | National Movement (Military) | [11] [12] | |||||
Franco VIII | ||||||||||
Torcuato Fernández-Miranda (1915–1980) | 12 June 1973 | 31 December 1973 | 202 days | National Movement (Nonpartisan) | Carrero Blanco | Luis Carrero Blanco (1973) | [13] | |||
José García Hernández (1915–2000) | 4 January 1974 | 12 December 1975 | 1 year and 342 days | National Movement (Nonpartisan) | Arias Navarro I | Carlos Arias Navarro (1973–1976) | [14] [15] | |||
Fernando de Santiago (1910–1994) | 12 December 1975 | 5 July 1976 | 286 days | National Movement (Military) | Arias Navarro II | [16] [17] [18] | ||||
8 July 1975 | 23 September 1976 | Suárez I | Adolfo Suárez (1976–1981) | |||||||
Manuel Gutiérrez Mellado (1912–1995) | 23 September 1976 | 5 July 1977 | 4 years and 157 days | National Movement (Military) | [19] [20] [21] [22] | |||||
5 July 1977 | 6 April 1979 | Military | Suárez II | |||||||
6 April 1979 | 27 February 1981 | Suárez III | ||||||||
Rodolfo Martín Villa (born 1934) | 2 December 1981 | 30 July 1982 | 240 days | UCD | Calvo-Sotelo | Leopoldo Calvo-Sotelo (1981–1982) | [23] [24] | |||
Juan Antonio García Díez (1940–1998) | 30 July 1982 | 3 December 1982 | 126 days | UCD | [25] [26] | |||||
Alfonso Guerra (born 1940) | 3 December 1982 | 26 July 1986 | 8 years and 42 days | PSOE | González I | Felipe González (1982–1996) | [27] [28] [29] [30] | |||
26 July 1986 | 7 December 1989 | González II | ||||||||
7 December 1989 | 14 January 1991 | González III | ||||||||
Narcís Serra (born 1943) | 13 March 1991 | 14 July 1993 | 4 years and 111 days | PSC–PSOE | [31] [32] [33] | |||||
14 July 1993 | 2 July 1995 | González IV | ||||||||
Office disestablished during this interval. | ||||||||||
Francisco Álvarez-Cascos (born 1947) | 6 May 1996 | 28 April 2000 | 3 years and 358 days | PP | Aznar I | José María Aznar (1996–2004) | [34] [35] | |||
Mariano Rajoy (born 1955) | 28 April 2000 | 4 September 2003 | 3 years and 129 days | PP | Aznar II | [36] [37] | ||||
Rodrigo Rato (born 1949) | 4 September 2003 | 18 April 2004 | 227 days | PP | [38] [39] | |||||
María Teresa Fernández de la Vega (born 1949) | 18 April 2004 | 14 April 2008 | 6 years and 186 days | Independent | Zapatero I | José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero (2004–2011) | [40] [41] [42] | |||
14 April 2008 | 21 October 2010 | Zapatero II | ||||||||
Alfredo Pérez Rubalcaba (1951–2019) | 21 October 2010 | 12 July 2011 | 264 days | PSOE | [43] [44] | |||||
Elena Salgado (born 1949) | 12 July 2011 | 22 December 2011 | 163 days | Independent | [45] [46] | |||||
Soraya Sáenz de Santamaría (born 1971) | 22 December 2011 | 4 November 2016 | 6 years and 167 days | PP | Rajoy I | Mariano Rajoy (2011–2018) | [47] [48] [49] | |||
4 November 2016 | 7 June 2018 | Rajoy II | ||||||||
Carmen Calvo (born 1957) | 7 June 2018 | 13 January 2020 | 3 years and 35 days | PSOE | Sánchez I | Pedro Sánchez (2018–present) | [50] [51] [52] | |||
13 January 2020 | 12 July 2021 | Sánchez II | ||||||||
Nadia Calviño (born 1968) | 12 July 2021 | 21 November 2023 | 2 years and 170 days | Independent | [53] [54] [55] | |||||
21 November 2023 | 29 December 2023 | Sánchez III | ||||||||
María Jesús Montero (born 1966) | 29 December 2023 | Incumbent | 182 days | PSOE | [56] |
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