José Luis Corcuera

José Luis Corcuera
Minister of Interior
In office 12 July 1988 – 23 November 1993
Prime Minister	Felipe González
Preceded by	José Barrionuevo
Succeeded by	Antoni Asunción Hernández
Personal details
Born	1944 (age 72–73)
Nationality	Spanish

José Luis Corcuera (born 1944) is a Spanish politician who served as interior minister of Spain from 1988 to 1993.

Corcuera hails from Basque-origin family. He was born in 1944 and was raised in Bilbao. He left school at 14.

Corcuera was the leader of a trade union. He was a member of the Spanish Congress of Deputies, representing Biscay Province from 1982 to 1986 and Burgos Province from 1993 to 1994. He was appointed interior minister in the cabinet led by Prime Minister Felipe González in a reshuffle on 12 July 1988, replacing José Barrionuevo in the post. He retained his post in a cabinet reshuffle of July 1993. However, on 23 November 1993 he resigned from office due to the fact that the bill he developed, the Corcuera law, was declared unlawful. He also resigned from his parliamentary seat.Antoni Asunción Hernández replaced him in the post.

In September 2001, Corcuera and José Barrionuevo were tried for the misuse of the public funds. Both were found innocent of embezzlement charges in January 2002.

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