José María Barreda
José María Barreda | |
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President of Castile-La Mancha | |
In office 29 April 2004 – 22 June 2011 | |
Monarch | Juan Carlos I |
Preceded by | José Bono Martínez |
Succeeded by | María Dolores de Cospedal |
President of the Cortes of Castile-La Mancha | |
In office 21 June 1991 – 8 July 1997 | |
Preceded by | José Manuel Martínez Cenzano |
Succeeded by | María del Carmen Blázquez |
Member of the Congress of Deputies | |
Assumed office 13 December 2011 | |
Constituency | Ciudad Real |
Member of the Senate | |
In office 21 November 1989 – 16 October 1991 | |
Constituency | Castile-La Mancha |
Personal details | |
Born | Ciudad Real, Castile-La Mancha, Spain | 4 February 1953
Political party | Spanish Socialist Workers' Party |
José María Barreda Fontes (born 4 February 1953) is a Spanish politician and academic. A member of the Spanish Socialist Workers' Party, he was the President of the autonomous community of Castile-La Mancha from 2004 until 2011.[1]
Biography
Barreda, who was born in Ciudad Real, he is a descendent of a Spanish noble family and holds a doctorate in history and geography and a BA in philosophy and letters from the Complutense University of Madrid.[2] He received a scholarship from the Spanish National Research Council to fund his post-doctoral research and is currently a tenured professor of contemporary history at the University of Castile-La Mancha.[2]
Barreda met his wife, Clementina Díez de Baldeón, a socialist deputy for the Province of Ciudad Real, while still at university; the couple have two children.[2]
Political career
Barreda's first elected position was to the municipal council of Ciudad Real, a post he held from 1983-1987.[3] During that period, he was the Minister for Education and Culture in the first regional Government of José Bono Martínez.[3] As a Minister, he oversaw the creation of the University of Castile-La Mancha, launched the regional network of libraries, cultural centres, theatres and auditoria, and organised the conversion of the library at the Alcázar of Toledo.[3]
Barreda became the regional Minister for Institutional Relations in January 1988; he only held the portfolio for four months, however, as he became the region's vice-president in May of the same year.[4] He served as vice-president until November 1989, when the Cortes of Castile-La Mancha—the regional parliament—appointed him to be one of the region's two representatives in the Spanish Senate.[4] He returned to Castile-La Mancha in June 1991 to serve as the President of the Cortes Regionales.[4] Barreda remained in the post until July 1997, when he was forced to resign following his appointment as the regional general-secretary of the Spanish Socialist Workers' Party.[4] Following the 1999 regional elections, Barreda returned to his old post of vice-president of Castile-La Mancha.[4]
President of Castile-La Mancha
In April 2004, after more than 20 years as President of Castile-La Mancha, Bono was named as the Minister of Defence in José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero newly elected government.[4] Barreda took over from Bono as President of Castile-La Mancha and was his party's candidate in the 2007 regional elections, where he retained his position, albeit with a reduced majority.[4]
References
- ^ Miguel Ángel Marfull (2 February 2010). "Barreda incomoda al PSOE al pedir a Zapatero otro Gobierno" (in Spanish). Público. Retrieved 15 February 2010.
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- 1953 births
- Living people
- Spanish academics
- Presidents of Castilla–La Mancha
- Presidents of the Cortes of Castilla–La Mancha
- Members of the Cortes of Castilla–La Mancha
- Members of the Senate of Spain
- People from Ciudad Real
- Complutense University of Madrid alumni
- Spanish Socialist Workers' Party politicians
- Government ministers of Castilla–La Mancha
- Members of the 12th Congress of Deputies (Spain)