Miguel Ángel Martínez Martínez

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Miguel Ángel Martínez Martínez (2011)

Miguel Ángel Martínez Martínez (born January 30, 1940 in Madrid ) is a Spanish politician of the social democratic PSOE and a member of the European Parliament . He was active in numerous international socialist organizations as well as in inter-parliamentary bodies.

Life

Martínez studied in Madrid , Toulouse and Vienna and made an early career in international socialist organizations, whose activities in Spain were still banned by the Franco regime at the time . In 1964 he became deputy general secretary of the International Union of Socialist Youth , in 1966 he became its deputy chairman and general secretary of the International Falcon Movement . In 1973 he became the union training officer of the International Confederation of Free Trade Unions .

After the end of the Franco dictatorship and the transition to democracy , Martínez was elected to the Spanish parliament in the first free elections in 1977 for the PSOE in the province of Ciudad Real , of which he was a permanent member until 1999. In 1980 he became a member of the executive committee of the PSOE-affiliated union UGT in the province of Ciudad Real, one year later PSOE general secretary in the region of Castile-La Mancha . In 1987 he was finally elected to the PSOE's Spain-wide party executive committee.

In addition, Martínez continued to be internationally active and headed various interparliamentary bodies: from 1983 to 1992 he was Vice President and then President of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe until 1996 and Vice President of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Western European Union from 1986 to 1996 . From September 16, 1997 to July 15, 1999 he was chairman of the Interparliamentary Union .

In the 1999 European elections , Martínez was elected to the European Parliament for the first time , and has been a member of the Socialist Group ever since . Since 2001 he has been Vice-President of the Joint Parliamentary Assembly of the ACP States and the EU . In addition, since the European elections in 2009 he has been a member of the delegation for relations with the Pan-African Parliament , the Committee on Agriculture and Rural Development and the Committee on Petitions as well as Deputy Speaker of Parliament .

Awards

Martínez was awarded the gold medal of the Comenius University in Bratislava for his activities and is honorary doctor of the University of Moscow , the University of Cluj and the University of Aberdeen . He was also awarded the Spanish Order for Services to the Constitution (1988), the Grand Cross of the Order of Civil Merit (1996) and in 1999 the Grand Cross of the Orden de Isabel la Católica , the highest distinction of the Spanish state. He has also received other awards in over thirty countries.

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SURNAME Martínez Martínez, Miguel Ángel
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Spanish politician (PSOE), MEP
DATE OF BIRTH January 30, 1940
PLACE OF BIRTH Madrid