Ramón Jáuregui

Ramón Jáuregui (2011)

José Ramón Jáuregui Atondo (born September 1, 1948 in San Sebastián ) is a Spanish politician ( PSOE ). From October 2010 to December 2011 he was Minister of the Presidium ( Cabinet Minister ) in the Zapatero II cabinet .

Political career

After training in mechanical engineering and studying law, Ramón Jáuregui joined the re-admitted socialist party PSOE after the end of the Franco dictatorship and was president of the executive committee of the municipal government of San Sebastián , which prepared the first democratic local elections in this city from 1977 to 1979 . In 1980 Jáuregui became general secretary of the Basque section of the UGT union .

After the PSOE won the Spanish parliamentary elections in 1982 , Jáuregui was the government's envoy to the Basque Country Autonomous Community until 1987 . In 1986 he stood as the top candidate of his party in the Basque regional elections. The PSOE achieved 22.0% of the vote and thus remained behind the Basque nationalist party PNV (23.7%), but it formed the strongest parliamentary group with 19 seats (PNV 17 seats). After intensive negotiations between PSOE and PNV, which lasted almost three months, a coalition was formed between the two parties. The incumbent José Antonio Ardanza (PNV) was re-elected Basque Prime Minister , Jáuregui became his deputy. One of the most important results of the coalition work was the pact of Ajuria Enea , in which in 1988 all the major Basque parties (except for Herri Batasuna ) expressed their joint rejection of the Basque nationalist terrorist organization ETA .

In the regional elections in 1990 and 1994, in which Jáuregui ran again as the top candidate, the PSOE was again only the second strongest force. In 1990 Jáuregui became general secretary of the Basque Socialists and a year later gave up the post of vice-prime minister. In 1998 he was replaced as General Secretary of the Basque PSOE by Nicolás Redondo , who advocated a tougher course against Basque nationalism and shortly afterwards terminated the coalition with the PNV. After Redondo's resignation in 2002, Jáuregui temporarily headed the Basque PSOE again until it elected Patxi López as its new general secretary at a party congress .

In the 1996 parliamentary elections , Jáuregui was elected to the Spanish Congress of Deputies and appointed Secretary for Institutional Policy of the PSOE. From 2004 he was PSOE spokesman in the parliamentary committee for constitutional issues, from 2008 managing director of the PSOE parliamentary group.

In the European elections in Spain in 2009 , Jáuregui entered the European Parliament as the second-placed PSOE candidate . He was a member of the social democratic group S&D and sat on the committee for constitutional questions . He was also chairman of the delegation to the EU-Mexico joint parliamentary committee and secretary general of the PSOE group in the S&D group.

On October 20, 2010, Jáuregui resigned from the European Parliament after being appointed cabinet minister in the Zapatero II cabinet during a government reshuffle in Spain . He succeeded María Teresa Fernández de la Vega in this office .

Web links

Commons : Ramón Jáuregui  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Entry on Ramón Jáuregui in the European Parliament 's database of deputies
• VoteWatch.eu: voting by Ramón Jáuregui in the European Parliament (English)