María Teresa Fernández de la Vega
| María Teresa Fernández de la Vega | |
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| First Deputy Prime Minister of Spain | |
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In office 18 April 2004 – 20 October 2010 |
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| Monarch | Juan Carlos I |
| Prime Minister | José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero |
| Preceded by | Rodrigo Rato |
| Succeeded by | Alfredo Pérez Rubalcaba |
| Member of the Congress of Deputies | |
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In office 9 March 2008 – 21 October 2010 |
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| Constituency | Valencia |
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In office 14 March 2004 – 9 March 2008 |
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| Constituency | Madrid |
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In office 12 March 2000 – 14 March 2004 |
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| Constituency | Segovia |
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In office March 1996 – March 2000 |
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| Constituency | Jaen |
| Personal details | |
| Born |
María Teresa Fernández de la Vega Sanz 15 June 1949 Valencia, Spain |
| Nationality | Spanish |
| Political party | PSOE |
| Other political affiliations |
PSUC |
| Alma mater | Complutense University of Madrid |
| Profession | Jurist |
María Teresa Fernández de la Vega Sanz, LLD (born 15 June 1949) is a Spanish Socialist politician. From 18 April 2004 to 20 October 2010, she was the first deputy prime minister, minister of the Presidency and cabinet spokesperson in the government of Prime Minister José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero. She is the first female deputy prime minister in Spanish history.
Fernández de la Vega is the daughter of a high-ranking Francoist public servant, Wenceslao Fernández de la Vega Lombán, delegate of the ministry of employment headed at that time by Fermín Sanz Orrio (1957–1962). She was born in Valencia in 1949. She earned a degree in law from the Complutense University of Madrid in the early 1970s. In 1974 she entered Spain's Cuerpo de Secretarios Jurídicos Laborales, a specialised body of the civil service.
She started her political career in the Unified Socialist Party of Catalonia, remaining a member of it until 1979. From 1982 until 1985, she was the director of the advisory cabinet of the minister of justice, and in 1985 she was appointed general director of services at the ministry of justice. In 1986 she became a member of the legal cooperation committee of the Council of Europe. In 1990, she was chosen as a spokesperson of the general council of judicial power by the Senate (1994–1996). On 13 May 1994, the then Justice Minister Juan Alberto Belloch appointed her Secretary of State of justice.
She was elected a member of the Spanish Congress for Jaén for the Spanish Socialist Workers' Party candidacy for the 1996-2000 term, being re-elected in the elections of 2000 for Segovia. During this term she became general secretary of the Socialist parliamentary group. In the Spanish general election of 2004 she became a member of the parliament for Madrid, and on 18 April of that year she was appointed first vice president and minister of Presidency, remaining the incumbent of each. For the 2008 election she headed the list for the PSOE in Valencia.
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