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Felipe Gonzalez

Excelentísimo Señor
Felipe González Márquez
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Prime Minister of Spain
In office
1 December 1982 – 4 May 1996
Monarch Juan Carlos I
Deputy
Preceded by Leopoldo Calvo-Sotelo
Succeeded by José María Aznar
Secretary General of the PSOE
In office
28 September 1979 – 21 June 1997
President Ramón Rubial
Deputy Alfonso Guerra
Preceded by Caretaker committee
Succeeded by Joaquín Almunia
In office
13 October 1974 – 20 May 1979
President Ramón Rubial (1976–79)
Preceded by Rodolfo Llopis
Succeeded by Caretaker committee
Leader of the Opposition
In office
4 May 1996 – 21 June 1997
Monarch Juan Carlos I
Prime Minister José María Aznar
Preceded by José María Aznar
Succeeded by Joaquín Almunia
In office
28 September 1979 – 1 December 1982
Monarch Juan Carlos I
Prime Minister
Preceded by Position vacant
Succeeded by Manuel Fraga
In office
22 July 1977 – 20 May 1979
Monarch Juan Carlos I
Prime Minister Adolfo Suárez
Preceded by Position established
Succeeded by Position vacant
Member of the Congress of Deputies
In office
15 June 1977 – 14 March 2004
Constituency Seville (2000–04)
Madrid (1977–2000)
Personal details
Born (1942-03-05) 5 March 1942 (age 74)
Seville, Spain
Political party PSOE
Spouse(s) María del Carmen Romero
(m. 1969–2008); divorced
Mar García Vaquero
(m. 2012–present)
Children Pablo (b. 1972)
David (b. 1973)
María (b. 1978)
Alma mater University of Seville
Religion Roman Catholicism
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Felipe González Márquez (Spanish pronunciation: [feˈlipe ɣonˈθaleθ ˈmarkeθ], born 5 March 1942) is a Spanish social-democratic politician. He was the General Secretary of the Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE) from 1974 to 1997. To date, he remains the longest-serving Prime Minister of Spain, after having served four successive mandates from 1982 to 1996. His ascension is generally seen as the last step in the path to Spain's re-instatement of democracy which commenced with the death of Francisco Franco in 1975. After losing power to Partido Popular's José María Aznar in 1996, he briefly continued to lead the PSOE but was ousted following a controversy regarding illegal actions his government had taken in the struggle against ETA.

González was born in Bellavista, Seville, the son of a farmer who had a small dairy. He has a sister called Lola González Márquez, married to Francisco Germán Palomino Romera, by whom she has two sons, Felipe and Germán Palomino González. He studied Law at Seville University and started his career as attorney specialising in labor law. While at the University he met members of the clandestine socialist trade union Unión General de Trabajadores (UGT). He also contacted members of the PSOE and started taking part in the party's clandestine activity, necessary under the dictatorship of Franco. During that time he adopted the alias Isidoro and moved to Madrid. He was elected Secretary General of the Party at the Suresnes Congress, in France.

By the time of Franco's death, González had become the most prominent figure among the left-wing of the democratic opposition to the regime, and played a critical role, along with then serving prime minister Adolfo Suárez, in the Spanish transition to democracy. During the Suárez government, General and vice president Manuel Gutiérrez Mellado asked González not to raise the debate of the Civil War and Franquist repression until the death of those of his generation.


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