Joan Lerma
| Joan Lerma | |
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| President of the Generalitat Valenciana | |
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In office 12 August 1982 – 3 July 1995 |
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| Monarch | Juan Carlos I |
| Preceded by | Enrique Monsonís |
| Succeeded by | Eduardo Zaplana |
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15 July 1951 Valencia, Spain |
| Nationality | Spanish |
| Political party | PSOE |
| Alma mater | University of Valencia |
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Joan Lerma i Blasco (born 15 July 1951 in Valencia, Spain) is a Spanish politician for the Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE), who served as the first democratically elected President of the Valencian Community since the restoration of democracy in the 1970s.
Lerma gained a degree in Economic and Business Science from the University of Valencia in 1976. He was a young Trotskyist and in 1973, practised entryism by joining the Young Socialists (Spanish: Juventudes Socialistes). In 1974 he joined the Unión General de Trabajadores (UGT), a major trade union historically affiliated with the PSOE, becoming a PSOE member in 1975. at which point the party was still illegal under the dictatorship of Francisco Franco.
He served as employment minister in the administration of the Valencian Community from April 1978 until June 1979. In July 1978, when the Socialist Party of the Valencian Country (PSPV) decided to merge with the PSOE, Lerma was elected Secretary for political relations between the two groupings and a year later became Secretary General of the combined PSPV-PSOE, the regional branch of the PSOE in the Valencian Community. He headed the regional PSPV-PSOE list at the 1979 General Election and was elected to the Spanish Congress of Deputies representing Valencia Province and was re-elected in the subsequent elections in 1982.
On 26 November 1982, Lerma was appointed President of the Valencian Community after the resignation of Enrique Monsonís. This was the last occasion to date that a President was appointed as future Presidents would be chosen by the Corts Valencianes, the Valencian regional parliament.
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