Antolín Sánchez Presedo

Antolín Sánchez Presedo

Antolín Sánchez Presedo (born April 5, 1955 in Betanzos , A Coruña province ) is a Spanish lawyer, politician of the socialist party PSOE and member of the European Parliament .

Life

After studying law at the University of Santiago de Compostela (1972–1977), Sánchez Presedo began working as a lawyer in 1978. In 1981 he was elected to the Regional Parliament of Galicia , to which he was a member until 1997. He was also a member of the city council from 1979, and from 1983 mayor of his hometown Betanzos.

From 1982 to 1994 he was a member of the executive committee of the PSOE. In 1985 he succeeded Francisco Vázquez Vázquez as General Secretary of the PSdeG, the Galician regional association of the PSOE. He gave up the mayor's office in Betanzos to prepare for the Galician regional elections in the same year. Despite winning seats for the PSdeG, it did not succeed in forming a government. It was not until 1987 that she was able to overthrow the conservative government under Xerardo Fernández Albor ( PP ) through a vote of no confidence . Fernando González Laxe became the new Galician President ; Sánchez Presedo took over the Ministry of Regional Planning and Public Works. In the regional elections in 1989, however, the PP won again with its top candidate Manuel Fraga Iribarne , so that the PSdeG returned to the opposition.

In the 1993 regional elections, Sánchez Presedo ran as the top candidate of the PSdeG, but suffered a significant defeat. As a result, he gave up his post as general secretary of the regional association in 1994 and temporarily withdrew from politics. Instead, he worked as a lawyer and completed a master's degree in European law at the Carlos III University in Madrid from 1994 to 1996 . From 2001 to 2004 he worked as a professor at the University of A Coruña .

In the 2004 European elections , Sánchez Presedo ran again for the PSOE and won a seat in the European Parliament . Here he belongs to the group of the Party of European Socialists and is a member of the Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs . From 2009 to 2014 he is a member of the Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs and the delegation for relations with South Africa. He is a deputy on the Committee on Fisheries and in the delegation for relations with the United States.

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1. ^ Website of the European Parliament

Web links

• Entry for Antolín Sánchez Presedo in the database of Members of the European Parliament
• VoteWatch.eu: voting by Antolín Sánchez Presedo in the European Parliament (English)