The Congress of Deputies is the lower house of the Cortes Generales, Spain's legislative branch, the upper house being the Senate. The Congress meets in the Palace of the Parliament in Madrid.
The People's Party is a conservative and Christian-democratic political party in Spain.
Alberto Ruiz-Gallardón Jiménez is a Spanish politician and former Minister of Justice. He was mayor of Madrid between 2003 and 2011. A stalwart of the conservative People's Party (PP), he has previously been a leading figure in various local and national legislative bodies. In December 2011 Ruiz-Gallardón was appointed Minister of Justice in Mariano Rajoy's inaugural cabinet. He resigned in September 2014.
María Elena Valenciano Martínez-Orozco is a Spanish politician of the Spanish Socialist Workers' Party, part of the Party of European Socialists.
The Union of the Democratic Centre was an electoral alliance, and later political party, in Spain, existing from 1977 to 1983. It was initially led by Adolfo Suárez (1932–2014).
Antonio López-Istúriz White is a Spanish politician and Member of the European Parliament (MEP) from Spain. He is a member of the People's Party, member party of the European People's Party. He has served as the Secretary General of the European People's Party since March 2002 till May 2022.
Francisco José Millán Mon is a Spanish politician and Member of the European Parliament with the People's Party, part of the European People's Party. Mon was born in Pontevedra. He sits on the European Parliament's Committee on Foreign Affairs, and is a substitute for the Committee on Development and a member of the Delegation to the Euro-Mediterranean Parliamentary Assembly.
Cristóbal Ricardo Montoro Romero is a Spanish politician. Hs is a member of the Spanish People's Party. He served as Minister of Finance and Public Administrations of Spain from 22 December 2011 until 1 June 2018, when a vote of no-confidence against Mariano Rajoy ousted his government. His ministry was re-structured in 2016 and the responsibilities of Public Administration were given to the vice president. The office was renamed Minister of Finance and Civil Service.
Agustín Díaz De Mera García Consuegra is a Spanish politician who served as a Member of the European Parliament with the People's Party, part of the European People's Party, from 2004 until 2019.
José Manuel García-Margallo y Marfil is a Spanish politician who served as Minister of Foreign Affairs and Cooperation from 2011 to 2016. Since 2019, he has been a member of the European Parliament.
The 1982 Spanish general election was held on Thursday, 28 October 1982, to elect the 2nd Cortes Generales of the Kingdom of Spain. All 350 seats in the Congress of Deputies were up for election, as well as 208 of 254 seats in the Senate.
The People's Alliance was a post-Francoist electoral coalition, and later a conservative political party in Spain, founded in 1976 as a federation of political associations. Transformed into a party in 1977 and led by Manuel Fraga, it became the main conservative party in Spain. It was refounded as the People's Party in 1989.
Juan Oliver Chirivella is a Spanish politician who currently is a member of the People's Party (PP), although he has been a member of several other parties in the past.
Luis Ortiz González was a Spanish politician and former Minister of Public Works in the Governments of Adolfo Suarez.
Francisco Javier Rupérez Rubio is a Spanish politician, diplomat and writer, was born in Madrid on 24 April 1941. He holds degrees in law (1962) and journalism (1975) from the Complutense University of Madrid. Since 2006 he has held the rank of full Ambassador within the Spanish Diplomatic Service, which he joined in 1967.
José Pin Arboledas is a Spanish economist and politician.
Jordi Cañas Pérez is a Spanish politician who was a Member of the European Parliament (MEP) from 2019 to 2024. He previously was member of the Parliament of Catalonia between 2010 and 2014, during the IX and X legislature.
María Soraya Rodríguez Ramos is a Spanish lawyer and politician who has been serving as a Member of the European Parliament for Ciudadanos since 2019. She previously was a Deputy of the PSOE in the Congress of Deputies.
José Ignacio "Nacho" Sánchez Amor is a Spanish politician who was elected as a Member of the European Parliament in 2019.
Cristina García-Orcoyen Tormo is a Spanish People's Party politician and environmentalist who served a single term as a Member of the European Parliament (MEP) in the European Parliament between 1999 and 2004. She was the general secretary of the World Wide Fund for Nature in Spain (WWF/Adena) from 1983 to 1996 and was made head of the private non-profit Environment Foundation in 1996. Tormo worked on several directives and community initiatives relating to the environment, industrial and foreign policy when she was an elected member of the European Parliament.
This page is based on this
Wikipedia article Text is available under the
CC BY-SA 4.0 license; additional terms may apply.
Images, videos and audio are available under their respective licenses.
