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| Tenure | December 2, 1982 - May 5, 1996 |
| Preceded by | Leopoldo Calvo Sotelo |
| Succeeded by | José María Aznar |
| Date of birth | March 5, 1942 |
| Place of birth | Seville |
| Party | Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE) |
Felipe González Márquez (March 5, 1942). General Secretary of the Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE) from 1974 to 1997 and Prime Minister from 1982 to 1996.
A lawyer from Seville, he joined the PSOE in 1963, where he used the nom de guerre Isidoro. In 1969 he married Carmen Romero. He was a leader of the PSOE from the 1970s, until he was elected to General Secretary in the Congress of Suresnes (France) of 1974. After the democratic elections of 1977 and 1979, he became the leader of the opposition and a member of the Cortes. He temporarily resigned as General Secretary of the Spanish Socialist Party to force it to abandon Marxism in 1979. After the historical Socialist landslide of 1982, he became Prime Minister of Spain, with Alfonso Guerra as his deputy, and reelected (although each time with diminishing support) in 1986, 1989 and 1993.
He introduced left-wing social reforms and pursued an economic policy considered too liberal and right-wing by some groups like the Trade Unions that called for a general strike on December 14 1988 because of this reason. He supported Spain entering the NATO in a referendum in 1986, reverting his past position, and supported the USA in First Gulf War in 1991. Under his mandate, Spain joined the EEC in 1986. Because of the bad economic situation (with the unemployment rate approaching 25%) and several scandals of corruption and state terrorism (GAL), his party lost the 1996 general election and he resigned as leader of the party. One of his hobbies is tending bonsai trees
Works
- "Un discurso ético" (co-authorship with Víctor Márquez Reviriego, 1982)
- "El Socialismo" (1997)
- "El futuro no es lo que era" (co-authorship with Juan Luis Cebrián , 2001)
- "Memorias del futuro" (2003)
External link
Biography by CIDOB Foundation (in Spanish)
See also
| Preceded by: Leopoldo Calvo Sotelo |
Prime Minister of Spain 1982–1996 |
Followed by: José María Aznar |