Juan Ignacio Zoido
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Excelentísimo Señor Juan Ignacio Zoido MP |
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| Minister of the Interior of Spain | |
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Assumed office 4 November 2016 |
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| Monarch | Felipe VI |
| Prime Minister | Mariano Rajoy |
| Preceded by | Jorge Fernandez Díaz |
| Mayor of Seville | |
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In office 11 June 2011 – 15 June 2015 |
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| Preceded by | Alfredo Sánchez Montesserín |
| Succeeded by | Juan Espadas |
| Member of the Congress of Deputies | |
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Assumed office 13 Juanuary 2016 |
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| Constituency | Seville |
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Juan Ignacio Zoido Álvarez 21 January 1957 Montellano, Seville, Spain |
| Political party | People's Party (1989–present) |
| Alma mater | University of Seville |
| Occupation | Judge, Politician |
| Religion | Roman Catholicism |
Juan Ignacio Zoido Álvarez (Montellano, Seville, Spain 21 January 1957) is a Spanish former Judge and Politician of the People's Party (Spain), currently serving as Minister of the Interior and Deputy for Seville. He has previously been Mayor of Seville from 2011 to 2015, Member of the Parliament of Andalusia from 2008 to 2014 and Chairman of the People's Party of Andalusia from 2012 to 2014.
Juan Ignacio Zoido was born in Montellano, Seville and grew up in Fergenal de la Sierra, where his father owned a bakery. He started his law studies in the University of Almeria and graduated in 1979 in the University of Seville. After completing his studies Zoido did his military military service in Cerro Muriano, serving as a bodyguard for several generals.
Zoido passed the Judiciary competitive examinations in 1983 and was first posted as First Instance and Inquiry Judge of the Arrecife District in Lanzarote. A year later he was promoted and posted as First Instance and Inquiry Judge in the Utrera district. In 1987 he is promoted to magistrate and posted to San Cristóbal de La Laguna (Tenerife) as titular Judge of the 3rd Court of First Instance and Inquiry of that district. He returned to Andalucía in 1987 being posted a titular judge of the 7th Court of First Instance (family affairs) of Seville, in 1989 he changed his court to th 7th Criminal Court of the same district. In 1992 he is named Dean Juadge of Seville position where he remained until 1996.
In 1996 Zoido is appointed Director General of Relations with the Judiciary by the then Minister of Justice, Margarita Mariscal de Gante. In 2000 he is appointed Government's Delegate to Castilla-La Mancha until 2002, where he is named Government's Delegate in Andalusia. Two years later he is elected General Secretary of the People's Party of Andalusia, position he held until 2006.
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