Manuel Medina Ortega

Manuel Medina Ortega (born December 15, 1935 in Arrecife , Las Palmas ) is a Spanish legal scholar and politician ( PSOE ). Among other things, he was a member of the European Parliament from 1986 to 2009 .

Life

Medina Ortega was one of nine children of Celia Ortega and Rafael Medina Armas, who was elected mayor of Arrecife in 1936 as a candidate for the Frente Popular . After completing her law degree at La Laguna University in 1957, Medina Ortega received her doctorate in 1961 from the University of Madrid and in the following year received a master's in comparative law at Columbia University . From 1959 to 1975 he taught international law and international relations at the Complutense University of Madrid , with a guest stay at the University of Redlands in 1969/70. In 1975 he was appointed dean of the Faculty of Politics and Social Sciences at the University of Complutense, but in the same year he moved to the University of La Laguna in Tenerife , where he took over the chair of international law and became vice- rector in 1976. In 1978 he returned to Complutense, where he stayed until 1982.

In the Spanish parliamentary elections in 1982 , Medina Ortega won a seat in the Spanish parliament on the list of the socialist party PSOE . When Spain joined the European Communities in 1986, he became a member of the European Parliament , from which he was a member of the parliamentary group of the Party of European Socialists until the 2009 European elections . From 1986 to 1987 Medina Ortega was also Vice-President of Parliament; from 1987 to 1994 he headed the European Parliament's delegation for relations with the countries of South America . He was then from 1994 to 1999 deputy leader of the Social Democrats. In the European elections in Spain in 2009 , Medina Ortega did not run and thus left parliament.

Web links

• Manuel Medina Ortega's blog (Spanish)
• Entry for Manuel Medina Ortega in the European Parliament 's database of deputies