Alfonso Guerra

In thisSpanish name,the first or paternalsurnameisGuerraand the second or maternal family name isGonzález.

For the bishop, seeAlfonso Guerra (bishop).

Alfonso Guerra González
Deputy Prime Minister of Spain
In office 3 December 1982– 15 January 1991
Prime Minister	Felipe González
Preceded by	Rodolfo Martín Villa
Succeeded by	Narcís Serra
Member of theCongress of Deputies
In office 15 June 1977 – 14 January 2015
Constituency	Seville
Personal details
Born	Alfonso Guerra González (1940-05-31)31 May 1940 Seville,Spain
Political party	PSOE
Alma mater	University of Seville

Alfonso Guerra González(born 31 May 1940) is a Spanish politician. A leading member of theSpanish Socialist Workers' Party(PSOE), he served as vice president of the government (vicepresidente del Gobierno,i.e. equivalent to deputyprime minister) of Spain from 1982 to 1991 under the premiership ofFelipe González.He representedSeville provincein theCongress of Deputiesfrom 1977 to 2015, and was the longest-serving deputy at the time of his departure.

In 1988, Guerra received anhonorary degreefrom theUniversidad Nacional Federico VillarrealinLima,Peru,and he was awarded theMedaglia D'oroin 1984 by theSapienza University of Rome.Guerra was an extremely controversial politician, noted for his acid discourse against his opponents, which was criticised asdemagogyby his political adversaries. He was forced to quit his position as vice-president after a financial scandal involving his brother Juan Guerra.

On 5 November 2014, Guerra announced that he would be resigning from congress at the end of the parliamentary session in December 2014.At the time of his resignation announcement, he was the longest serving member of congress.