José María Barreda
José María Barreda | |
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President of Castile-La Mancha | |
In office 29 April 2004 – 22 June 2011 | |
Monarch | Juan Carlos I |
Preceded by | José Bono |
Succeeded by | María Dolores de Cospedal |
President of the Cortes of Castile-La Mancha | |
In office 21 June 1991 – 8 July 1997 | |
Preceded by | José Manuel Martínez Cenzano |
Succeeded by | María del Carmen Blázquez |
Member of theCongress of Deputies | |
Assumed office 13 December 2011 | |
Constituency | Ciudad Real |
Member of theSenate | |
In office 21 November 1989 – 16 October 1991 | |
Constituency | Castile-La Mancha |
Member of theCortes of Castile-La Mancha | |
In office 10 June 1987 – 9 December 2011 | |
Constituency | Ciudad Real;Toledo |
Personal details | |
Born | Ciudad Real,Spain | 4 February 1953
Political party | Spanish Socialist Workers' Party |
José María Barreda Fontes(born 4 February 1953) is a Spanish politician and historian. A member of theSpanish Socialist Workers' Party(PSOE), he served asPresident of the Junta of Communities of Castilla–La Manchafrom 2004 until 2011.[1]As of 2019, he works as senior lecturer of Contemporary History at theUniversity of Castilla–La Mancha.[2]
Biography
[edit]Barreda, who was born inCiudad Real,is a descendant of a Spanish noble family and holds adoctoratein history and geography and aBAin philosophy and letters from theComplutense University of Madrid.[3]He received ascholarshipfrom theSpanish National Research Councilto fund his post-doctoral research and is currently a tenured professor ofcontemporary historyat theUniversity of Castile-La Mancha.[3]
Barreda met his wife,Clementina Díez de Baldeón,a socialistdeputyfor theProvince of Ciudad Real,while still at university; the couple have two children.[3]
Political career
[edit]Barreda's first elected position was to themunicipal councilof Ciudad Real, a post he held from 1983-1987.[4]During that period, he was the Minister for Education and Culture in the first regional Government ofJosé Bono.[4]As a Minister, he oversaw the creation of the University of Castile-La Mancha, launched the regional network of libraries,cultural centres,theatres andauditoria,and organised the conversion of the library at theAlcázar of Toledo.[4]
Barreda became the regional Minister for Institutional Relations in January 1988; he only held the portfolio for four months, however, as he became the region's vice-president in May of the same year.[5]He served as vice-president until November 1989, when theCortes of Castile-La Mancha—the regional parliament—appointed him to be one of the region's two representatives in theSpanish Senate.[5]He returned to Castile-La Mancha in June 1991 to serve as the President of theCortes Regionales.[5]Barreda remained in the post until July 1997, when he was forced to resign following his appointment as the regional general-secretary of the Spanish Socialist Workers' Party.[5]Following the1999 regional elections,Barreda returned to his old post of vice-president of Castile-La Mancha.[5]
President of Castile-La Mancha
[edit]In April 2004, after more than 20 years as President of Castile-La Mancha, Bono was named as theMinister of DefenceinJosé Luis Rodríguez Zapateronewly electedgovernment.[5]Barreda took over from Bono as President of Castile-La Mancha and was his party's candidate in the2007 regional elections,where he retained his position, albeit with a reduced majority.[5]
References
[edit]- ^Miguel Ángel Marfull (2 February 2010)."Barreda incomoda al PSOE al pedir a Zapatero otro Gobierno"(in Spanish).Público.Retrieved15 February2010.
- ^"José María Barreda ingresará en Instituto de Estudios Manchegos".El Digital Ciudad Real.15 November 2019. Archived fromthe originalon 21 December 2019.Retrieved3 August2020.
- ^abcJosé María Barreda (5 March 2009)."José María Barreda - Mi Perfil"(in Spanish). jmbarreda. Archived fromthe originalon 6 April 2010.Retrieved14 February2010.
- ^abc"Presidencia de la Junta"(in Spanish).Gobiermo de Castile-La Mancha.2 July 2007. Archived fromthe originalon 8 March 2010.Retrieved14 February2010.
- ^abcdefg"José María Barreda Fontes".typicallyspanish. 12 March 2008. Archived fromthe originalon 29 September 2011.Retrieved15 February2010.
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[edit]- 1953 births
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