Pedro Agramunt

Pedro Agramunt (born September 12, 1951) is a Spanish and European politician. Agramunt is from Valencia and has served as a member of the Senate of Spain since 2008. He had previously represented Valencia Province in the Spanish Congress of Deputies from 1989 to 1991 and in the Corts Valencianes, the Valencian regional parliament, from 1991 to 1994. He is a prominent member of the People's Party (Spain). He has also been a Chairman of the European People's Party and is active in the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe.

Agramunt is an advocate for further European integration, and has spoken in favour of supporting Ukraine.

According to his official biography, Agramunt holds a degree in law from the University of Valencia. Agramunt's biography also says that he graduated from the Instituto de Estudios Superiores de la Empresa (IESE) in Barcelona, having studied Management Development (1980).

Agramunt has been married since 1979 and has two children.

Although Agramunt has a low profile in non-Spanish media, he is the focus of significant controversy, as he is the rapporteur of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe on political prisoners in Azerbaijan. Human rights activists have criticized Agramunt for his proximity to the regime in Azerbaijan, and have highlighted that he has done little to highlight numerous violations of human rights.Leyla Yunus, one of the Azerbaijani human rights activist that had criticized Agramunt in June 2014, has since been arrested, on charges that Human Rights Watch characterized as "bogus".

In 2013, the European Stability Initiative, a think tank, has called for Agramunt to resign from his position as rapporteur, alleging that he had covered up systematic human rights violations in Azerbaijan.

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