Carme Chacón

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Carme Chacón (2009)
Carme Chacón at a NATO conference in Budapest in 2008 in conversation with the American Defense Minister Robert M. Gates

Carme Chacón i Piqueras (born March 13, 1971 in Esplugues de Llobregat , province of Barcelona , † April 9, 2017 in Madrid ) was a Spanish politician of the Partit dels Socialistes de Catalunya (PSC). She was Minister of Housing from July 2007 and then Minister of Defense from April 2008 to December 2011 in the cabinet of José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero .

Life

Chacón studied law at the University of Barcelona and was Professor of Constitutional Law at the University of Girona, founded in 1991 , from 1994 to 2004 . In 1994 she joined the PSC, a Catalan sister party of the PSOE , which is represented in the rest of the country . From 2000 she was a member of the Congreso de los Diputados , the lower house of the Spanish Parliament , the Congress of Deputies, of which she was Vice-President from 2004 to 2007. When the Zapatero I cabinet was reshuffled on July 6, 2007, she was appointed Minister for Housing as successor to María Antonia Trujillos . From April 2008 to December 2011 she was Minister of Defense of the IX in the Zapatero II cabinet . Legislative period; she was the first woman to hold this post in Spain. She took office in the seventh month of pregnancy . This also made her the first woman minister in Spain to become a mother during her tenure.

In 2011, in the run-up to the parliamentary elections planned for 2012, Chacón was considered a promising candidate for the PSOE's top candidacy, as Prime Minister José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero no longer ran. After a severe defeat in the regional and local elections in May 2011, however, she resigned, so that Alfredo Pérez Rubalcaba was candidate for the early parliamentary elections in 2011 . After he had achieved the worst result since 1936 with 28.8%, Chacón applied for the successor to General Secretary Zapatero on February 4, 2012, but was defeated at the party congress with 465 to 487 votes to Pérez Rubalcaba. From 2012 she was charged with organizing the international relations of the PSOE. Even after the fall of her party in the European elections in Spain in 2014 , she was in talks to succeed Pérez Rubalcaba, but no longer showed any interest in it and finally withdrew from politics in 2016 to work as a lawyer.

From 2007 to 2016 she was married to Miguel Barroso, with whom she had a son. She was found dead in her apartment in Madrid on April 9, 2017. By a congenital heart defect with right heart lying she suffered without pacemaker to cardiac arrhythmia , an AV block 3rd degree. Her resting heart rate was only 35 heartbeats per minute.

Chacón was posthumously awarded a Creu-de-Sant-Jordi in 2017 .

literature

Web links

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Spain's ex-defense minister Chacón has died . orf.at , April 9, 2017, accessed April 10, 2017.
  2. ↑ Nuestras exclusivas 2016: la separación definitiva de Carme Chacón y Miguel Barroso . El Mundo , December 28, 2016, accessed April 10, 2017 (Spanish).
    Carme Chacón has muerto a los 46 años . La Crónica de Salamanca, April 9, 2017, accessed April 10, 2017 (Spanish).
  3. ↑ a b c Biografía de Carme Chacón. Partit dels Socialistes de Catalunya (PSC-PSOE) / Website of Carme Chacón, archived from the original on 20080505063122 ; Retrieved April 10, 2017 (Spanish).
  4. ^ Pablo Ordaz: El nuevo Gobierno: Un secreto muy bien guardado . El País , April 13, 2008, accessed April 10, 2017 (Spanish).
  5. ↑ Emine Saner: Yes, ministra! The Guardian , April 18, 2008, accessed April 10, 2017.
  6. ↑ Died at the age of 46: Spain's first female defense minister is dead n-tv.de , April 10, 2017, accessed on April 10, 2017.
  7. ↑ a b Carme Chacón, Spain's first female defense minister, this on theguardian.com, April 10, 2017, accessed April 15, 2017
  8. ↑ Raphael Minder April: Carme Chacon, Spain's First Female Defense Minister, this at 46 , The New York Times, April 11 2017
  9. ↑ Cardología: Morir a los 46: así es el síndrome del corazón invertido que ha fulminado a Carme Chacón , El Español, April 9, 2017.
  10. ↑ Carme Chacón: Spain's first female defense minister had a resting heart rate of 35 , welt.de, April 11, 2017.
personal data
SURNAME Chacón, Carme
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Chacón i Piqueras, Carme (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Spanish politician of the Partit dels Socialistes de Catalunya (PSC)
DATE OF BIRTH March 13, 1971
PLACE OF BIRTH Esplugues de Llobregat , Province of Barcelona
DATE OF DEATH April 9, 2017
Place of death Madrid