Juan Fernando López Aguilar
Juan Fernando López Aguilar (born June 10, 1961 in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria , Spain ) is a Spanish politician. He is a member of the Spanish Socialist Workers' Party PSOE and a member of the European Parliament . Before that, he was the Spanish Minister of Justice from 2004 to 2007 .
Life
Juan Fernando López Aguilar is not married.
López Aguilar holds a law degree from the University of Granada , a degree in politics and sociology from the University of Complutense in Madrid and a law degree from the University of Boston . He obtained a law doctorate from the University of Bologna . In 1993 he became professor of constitutional law at the University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria.
He then received the Jean Monnet Professorship for Law and European Integration and a Master of Arts in Law & Diplomacy at the Fletcher School of Law & Diplomacy ( Massachusetts ).
Political career
1983 López Aguilar joined the Socialist Workers' Party of Spain PSOE. Between 1990 and 1993 he was parliamentary advisor to Justice Ministers Enrique Múgica and Tomás Quadra-Salcedo. From 1993 to 1996 Aguilar was Head of the Ministerial Office of Minister Jerónimo Saavedra in the Ministries of Public Administration and Education. López Aguilar has been a member of the Spanish Parliament, the Cortes, since 1996 . In 1999 he was the PSOE's lead candidate for the presidency of the government of the Canary Islands . Since July 2000 he has been Secretary for Public Freedoms and Autonomous Development on the Board of the PSOE.
From April 18, 2004 to February 12, 2007 López Aguilar was Minister of Justice in the Zapatero government .
On October 28, 2006, López Aguilar was officially appointed candidate of the PSOE for the Canary Islands Presidency for the regional election on May 27, 2007, for which he resigned as Minister of Justice in Spain in February 2007. His party won 34.6 percent of the vote in this election and became the strongest faction. After the coalition negotiations, however, Paulino Rivero Baute from the regionalist Coalición Canaria (CC ) succeeded in being appointed President of the Canary Islands with the help of the conservative Partido Popular (PP).
On October 20, 2007 López Aguilar was elected the new General Secretary of the Canarian Socialists (Partido Socialista de Canarias - PSC, Canarian branch of the PSOE) with 92.97 percent of the vote. He replaced his predecessor Juan Carlos Alemán , who had held this office since 1988. In the 2009 European elections in Spain , López Aguilar ran as the PSOE's lead candidate and, as expected, won a seat in the European Parliament , where he was elected chairman of the Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs .
In April 2015, López Aguilar was expelled from the S&D group after prosecutors opened an investigation against him.
Web links
- Entry for Juan Fernando López Aguilar in the European Parliament 's database of deputies
- Biographical data on the website of the Congreso de los Diputados (Spanish)
Individual evidence
- ↑ http://www.rtvc.es/noticias/juan-fernando-lópez-aguilar-pasa-al-grupo-de-los-no-adscritos-del-parlamento-europeo-133693.aspx#.VTdh8M4_6KK
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | López Aguilar, Juan Fernando |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Spanish politician, MEP |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 10, 1961 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Las Palmas de Gran Canaria , Spain |