Luis de Grandes Pascual

Luis de Grandes Pascual (2018)

Luis de Grandes Pascual (born January 27, 1945 in Guadalajara ) is a Spanish politician of the conservative PP and a member of the European Parliament .

After studying law at the Complutense University of Madrid , de Grandes worked as a lawyer in Guadalajara and Alcalá de Henares . During the Spanish transition to democracy after the Franco dictatorship , he was a member of the moderately conservative ruling party Unión de Centro Democrático (UCD) and from 1977 to 1982 member of the Spanish parliament , of which he was a member. From 1977 to 1979 he was also a member of the parliamentary committee that drafted the Spanish constitution .

After the UCD collapsed, de Grandes belonged to the small Christian Democratic party Partido Demócrata Popular (PDP) in the early 1980s , of which he became general secretary. He later joined the new conservative People's Party, Partido Popular (PP).

From 1983 to 1987 and again from 1991 to 1995 de Grandes was a member of the regional parliament of Castilla-La Mancha , where he was also the spokesman for the PP. From 1986 to 1989 and again from 1993 to 2004 he was again a member of the Spanish Parliament. Here, too, he held the post of PP group spokesman during the reign of José María Aznar (PP) from 1996 to 2004. He was also elected to the PP party executive.

After the electoral defeat of the PP in 2004 , de Grandes left the Spanish Parliament and was elected to the European Parliament in the 2004 European elections . He was a member of the Executive Board of the conservative faction EPP-ED and member of the Committee on Transport and Tourism . In the European elections in Spain in 2009 he came second on the list of the PP and was re-elected to parliament.

Web links

Commons : Luis de Grandes Pascual  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Entry on Luis de Grandes Pascual in the European Parliament 's database of deputies
• VoteWatch.eu: Luis de Grandes Pascual's voting behavior in the European Parliament