Sergio Gutiérrez Prieto

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Sergio Gutiérrez Prieto, 2014

Sergio Gutiérrez Prieto (born July 11, 1982 in Escalona , Toledo province ) is a Spanish politician of the social democratic PSOE . Since 2007 he has been Secretary General of the PSOE youth organization Juventudes Socialistas de España , and since 2010 a member of the European Parliament .

Life

Gutiérrez Prieto studied law at the Complutense University of Madrid , where he graduated in 2005. Before that he was active in numerous political bodies: Among other things, from 1999 to 2004 he was chairman of Unión Progresista de Estudiantes , a student organization closely related to the PSOE. From 2000 to 2003 he was the spokesman for the regional platform for organizing student protests against two education laws passed by the conservative government under José María Aznar ( PP ); From 2003 to 2007 he was a member of the steering committee of the umbrella organization of the Spanish student organizations related to the PSOE.

Since 2000 Gutiérrez was a member of the Provincial Council of the PSOE of Toledo and the Regional Council of the PSOE of Castile-La Mancha . From 2003 to 2004 he was the coordinator for political action of the Juventudes Socialistas de España (JSE) and since 2004 the party's general secretary in his native Escalona. In 2006 he was elected Deputy General Secretary and in 2007 General Secretary of the JSE. Since then he has also been a member of the federal executive committee of the PSOE. In the same year he also became a member of the local government of Escalona, ​​where he is responsible for tourism and youth.

In the Spanish parliamentary elections in 2004 Gutiérrez came third in the PSOE list for the House of Representatives in the province of Toledo , but could not achieve a mandate. In the Spanish parliamentary elections in 2008 , he came in second in the list of the province of Toledo for the Senate , but failed again.

In the European elections in Spain in 2009 Gutiérrez came 22nd on the PSOE list. Since the PSOE only obtained 21 seats, he did not initially move into the European Parliament . He was given observer status , however , as Spain would be entitled to additional seats after the enlargement of the Parliament foreseen in the Lisbon Treaty , one of which should go to the PSOE. Although this enlargement of the parliament was initially not implemented even after the Treaty came into force, Gutiérrez was able to take up his mandate in the European Parliament on July 19, 2010 as a successor to Magdalena Álvarez .

Political positions

The positions represented by Sergio Gutiérrez as JSE General Secretary include lowering the voting age to 16, legalizing euthanasia , increasing social housing and raising the minimum wage in Spain from around 600 to 1000 euros.

In the EU Parliament he has been a member of the Group of the Progressive Alliance of Social Democrats in the European Parliament since 2010 and is a member of the Committee on Agriculture and Rural Development and the delegation in the Committee on Parliamentary Cooperation between the EU and Russia. He is a deputy in the Committee on Employment and Social Affairs and in the delegation for relations with the Arabian Peninsula .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ El País , April 15, 2009: El poder territorial del PSOE determina la lista al Parlamento Europeo (Spanish).
  2. ↑ El País , July 20, 2007: "El mileurismo sólo puede ser el mínimo, nunca el máximo" (Spanish).
  3. ^ Website of the European Parliament

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personal data
SURNAME Gutiérrez Prieto, Sergio
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Gutiérrez, Sergio
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Spanish politician (PSOE), MEP
DATE OF BIRTH July 11, 1982
PLACE OF BIRTH Escalona , Toledo Province