Cabinet of Zapatero I.

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The Zapatero I cabinet was the Spanish government from April 17, 2004 to April 12, 2008. Almost all members of the cabinet belonged to the PSOE (Spanish Socialist Workers' Party) or, in the case of José Montilla, Joan Clos and Carme Chacón, their Catalan Sister party PSC (Party of Socialists of Catalonia). Only José Antonio Alonso and María Teresa Fernández de la Vega were non-party.

In the parliamentary elections on March 14, 2004, the PSOE received 164 of the 350 seats in the House of Representatives, the conservative People's Party ( PP ) 148. The remaining 38 seats were held by members of nine small parties. José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero formed a minority government .

The Zapatero I cabinet ruled for the entire four-year legislative period. It was the eighth government in Spain since transition began .

In the parliamentary elections on March 9, 2008 , the PSOE received 1.26 percentage points more than in 2004. José Luis Zapatero then formed the Zapatero II cabinet .

minister

Office Surname
Prime Minister
First Vice President of the Government and Government Spokeswoman
Second Vice President of the Government
Appearance and development cooperation
Judiciary
defense
Economy and finance
Interior
Construction and transport
Education and Research
Work and social
Tourism and commerce
Agriculture, Fisheries and Food
Minister of the Presidium ( Cabinet Minister )
Public administration
Culture
Health and consumption
environment
housing

In distributing the ministries, Zapatero fulfilled the election promise to form a cabinet with equal representation for men and women .

There have been two more men in the cabinet since the July 2007 reshuffle.

Changes

On April 7, 2006, Zapatero announced the resignation of Defense Minister José Bono Martínez for family reasons. José Antonio Alonso, then Minister of the Interior, took over the Ministry of Defense; in his place came Alfredo Pérez Rubalcaba, who had previously been the leader of the Socialists in the Chamber of Deputies . Furthermore, María Jesús San Segundo (Ministry of Education) was replaced by Mercedes Cabrera Calvo Sotelo.

On September 8, 2006, José Montilla left the Ministry of Industry to run for the presidency of the Autonomous Region of Catalonia . He was replaced by Joan Clos, previously mayor of Barcelona .

In February 2007 Justice Minister Juan Fernando López Aguilar resigned to run for the presidency of the Canary Islands as a candidate for the PSOE ; he was followed by Mariano Fernández Bermejo.

In July 2007, the scientist Bernat Soria took over the Ministry of Health from Elena Salgado, who instead moved to the department of public administration. Carme Chacón was appointed Minister of Housing and César Antonio Molina was appointed Minister of Culture.

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