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Luis Carrero Blanco
In August of 1939 he became Chief of Operations of the General Staff of the Navy. Carrero, who had met Pedro Gamero del Castillo in 1938, was appointed thanks to the support of this national adviser of FET de las JONS in September 1939.11 As Chief of Operations of the General Staff of the Navy, and at the request of the Minister of Marina Salvador Moreno Fernández, wrote in 1940 a famous report recommending Spanish neutrality in World War II.12 -
Felipe González
In 1964 he joined the Spanish Socialist Workers Party, during the clandestine of this. The following year he finished his law studies at the University of Seville. In the Congress of Suresnes of 1974 of the renewed PSOE (split of the PSOE directed by Rodolfo Llopis), Felipe González was chosen secretary general of the PSOE. Already in democracy, he obtained his first act of deputy in 1977, being the PSOE candidate for the Presidency of the Government in 1977 and 1979. -
Carlos Arias Navarro
During his first government (1974), Arias gave signs of opening the regime in what came to be called the "spirit of February 12". For that reason, it was well received by Franco's open sectors and widely disseminated by the media. The anti-Francoist opposition, on the contrary, was very skeptical of that announcement.10 However, from the first moment the pressures of the so-called "bunker" (name with which designated the most immobile sectors of the dictatorship) quickly frustrated that attempt. -
Adolfo Suárez
As President of the Government, Suarez was one of the key figures of the Spanish Transition, the process through which the dictatorial regime of Francisco Franco and Spain was left behind, was constituted a social and democratic State of law. During his presidency various measures were carried out that reformed the previous system, such as the "self-liquidation" of the Francoist courts or the legalization of political parties; the legalization of the Communist Party was especially notorious. -
Leopoldo Calvo-Sotelo
During the vote on his inauguration as President of the Government (February 23, 1981), several armed civil guards who, under the command of Lieutenant Colonel Antonio Tejero, tried to give a military coup d'état, broke into the Congress of Deputies. like 23-F. The government of Calvo-Sotelo was born at a time when popular demonstrations against a political involution, unemployment and the weakness of the permanent political coalition were the protagonists of Spanish public activity. -
José María Aznar
Aznar reached the Pact of the Majestic with CiU through which they would receive their support in the Congress of Deputies in exchange for the support of the Popular Party of Catalonia in the autonomic parliament. The agreement also included the transfer of powers and the end of compulsory military service. The percentage of VAT and personal income tax transferred to the Autonomous Communities went from 15 to 30% of the total collected.28 In addition. -
José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero
The political and economic stability during his first government allowed the development of a progressive program with actions such as the legalization of marriage between people of the same sex, the law of the promotion of personal autonomy and care for people in situations of dependency, the law for the effective equality between women and men, the creation of the Courts of Violence against Women a new regularization of immigrants the implementation of a series of aid to disadvantaged families -
Mariano Rajoy
Rajoy was born in Santiago de Compostela in a family of lawyers. He has a degree in law from the University of Santiago de Compostela. At age 24 he approved the opposition to property registrar, becoming the youngest registrar in Spain to date. His first political office, when he was a member of Popular Alliance, was a seat in the Parliament of Galicia in 1981. He has held numerous positions since then, both in Galicia and in the two governments of José María Aznar. -
Pedro Sánchez
Pedro Sánchez Pérez-Castejón was born in Madrid, the oldest of two brothers, in a well-to-do family, with residence in Comandante Zorita street, in the district of Tetuán.10 11 His father Pedro Sánchez Hernández 10 economist, has He has worked in the financial sector and has managed various companies. He was also general director of INAEM and held positions of responsibility in the Ministry of Agriculture. Her mother, Magdalena Pérez-Castejón 10 has been a Social Security worker and lawyer.
