Emilio Pérez Touriño
| Emilio Pérez Touriño | |
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| 4th President of the Xunta of Galicia | |
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In office 2 August 2005 – 17 April 2009 |
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| Monarch | Juan Carlos I |
| Preceded by | Manuel Fraga |
| Succeeded by | Alberto Núñez Feijóo |
| Member of the Congress of Deputies | |
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In office 3 March 1996 – 28 October 1997 |
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| Constituency | Pontevedra |
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Emilio Pérez Touriño 8 August 1948 A Coruña, Galicia, Spain |
| Nationality | Spanish |
| Political party | PSdeG-PSOE |
| Spouse(s) | Esther Cid |
| Alma mater | University of Santiago de Compostela |
| Profession | Professor |
| Religion | Roman Catholicism |
Emilio Pérez Touriño (Spanish pronunciation: [eˈmiljo ˈpeɾeθ touˈɾiɲo]; born 8 August 1948) is a Spanish politician and economist. He is the former secretary general of the Socialists' Party of Galicia and, from August 2005 to March 2009, former president of the autonomous community of Galicia (Spain). Namely, he was president of the executive branch, the Xunta de Galicia. His political views are socialdemocratic and Galicianist.
An economist by profession, Pérez Touriño completed a course of specialisation at the University of Grenoble (France). He finished his doctoral degree in economics at the University of Santiago de Compostela. He was also vice-president for financial affairs in that same university. During his university years, Touriño developed an intense academic activity, teaching and publishing a number of works on economy and development. He would frequently use Galicia and Galicia's infrastructures as a case study in the integration with the European Union.
During the transition to democracy (1975–1982), following the end of the Francoist dictatorship, Touriño revealed himself as a left wing political activist and even participated in the drafting of the Galician Statute of Autonomy of 1981. He joined the cabinet of minister Abel Caballero at the Spanish ministry for transportation, tourism and communications. He also worked in a senior position at the ministry for public works, transportation and the environment. In 1994, he was accused of having accepted irregular payments and as a result renounced to all his political posts and returned to academia. That same year he also received the Spanish Great Cross of Civil Merit. He eventually returned to politics in 1996 when he was elected to the Spanish Congress representing A Coruña Province though he resigned from Congress in 1997.
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