Pedro Sánchez (Spanish politician)
| Pedro Sánchez | |
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| Leader of the Opposition | |
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In office 26 July 2014 – 1 October 2016 |
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| Monarch | Felipe VI |
| Prime Minister | Mariano Rajoy |
| Preceded by | Alfredo Pérez Rubalcaba |
| Succeeded by |
Vacant (until 17 June 2017) |
| Secretary General of the PSOE | |
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In office 26 July 2014 – 1 October 2016 |
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| President | Micaela Navarro |
| Preceded by | Alfredo Pérez Rubalcaba |
| Succeeded by |
Caretaker committee (headed by Javier Fernández) |
| Member of the Congress of Deputies | |
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In office 10 January 2013 – 29 October 2016 |
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| Constituency | Madrid |
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In office 15 September 2009 – 27 September 2011 |
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| Constituency | Madrid |
| Personal details | |
| Born |
Pedro Sánchez Pérez-Castejón 29 February 1972 Madrid, Spain |
| Political party | Spanish Socialist Workers' Party |
| Spouse(s) | Begoña Fernández (2006–present) |
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Pedro Sánchez Pérez-Castejón (Spanish pronunciation: [ˈpeðɾo ˈsaɲʧeθ ˈpeɾeθ kasteˈxon], born 29 February 1972) is a Spanish politician who was the Secretary-General of the Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE) from 2014 to 2016. He is a Doctorate in Economics since 2012 and was a Professor of Economics before his Congressional career. Currently a Deputy in the congress for three terms (for Madrid), he has been serving Spain's official leader of the opposition since 26 July 2014. He was elected as the Secretary-General of the PSOE via a primary election process, and is the first Secretary-General of the Spanish Socialist Workers' Party to have been elected directly by its members. After the 2015 elections, the King of Spain, having consulted the parliamentary groups, asked Sánchez to try to form a government on 2 February 2016 but he was unsuccessful and another election was called for June 2016.
As a consequence of the PSOE poor showings in the 2016 Basque and Galician elections, 17 members of the PSOE Executive resigned from their posts on 28 September 2016, resulting in the body's dissolution as per party rules and theoretically prompting Sánchez's resignation. Sánchez refused to acknowledge his ouster and remained in his position, with critics responding that Sánchez no longer had "any legitimacy" and urging him to "acknowledge party rules".
On 1 October 2016, Pedro Sánchez resigned as PSOE leader after losing a key ballot to Susana Díaz's critics in the party's federal committee held that same day. A few weeks later, on 29 October, he also resigned his seat in Congress after his party's choice to abstain in Mariano Rajoy's investiture and allow a PP minority government.
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