Joaquín Leguina

Joaquín Leguina
President of Madrid
In office
13 June 1983  30 June 1995
Monarch Juan Carlos I
Deputy César Cimadevilla
Preceded by None
Succeeded by Alberto Ruiz-Gallardón
Secretary-General of the Socialist Party of Madrid
In office
14 December 1979  2 February 1991
Preceded by Alonso Puerta
Succeeded by Teófilo Serrano
Personal details
Born Joaquín Leguina Herrán
(1941-05-05) 5 May 1941
Villaescusa, Spain
Political party Spanish Socialist Workers' Party
Alma mater University of the Basque Country

Joaquín Leguina Herrán (born 5 May 1941)[1] is a Spanish politician and writer, member of the Spanish Socialist Workers' Party, President of the Community of Madrid between 1983 and 1995, and Secretary-General of the Socialist Party of Madrid from 1979 to 1991.

After leaving the presidency of the Madrid region, he became a member of the PSOE National Executive Board presided by Joaquín Almunia.[2]

Works

  • La luz crepuscular. Alfaguara, 2009.[3]
  • Os salvaré la vida (along Rubén Buren). Espasa, 2017.[4][n. 1]

Notes

  1. Awarded with the "Premio de Novela Histórica Alfonso X El Sabio" in 2017. The authors were accused of having plagiarised Arturo Barea's La forja de un rebelde by Gabriel Bobé.[5]

References

  1. "Ilmo. Sr. D. Joaquín Leguina Herrán". Assembly of Madrid.
  2. Hernández, E.K. "Partidos políticos, procesos electorales y sistema de partidos". In Lourdes López Nieto (Ed.). La Comunidad de Madrid: balance de quince años de experiencia autonómica. Tres Cantos: Ediciones Akal. p. 152. ISBN 84-7090-345-4.
  3. "De un tiempo, de un país". Revista de Libros (165). September 2010.
  4. Pato García, Jorge (15 October 2017). "Joaquín Leguina y Rubén Buren: Os salvaré la vida". El Imparcial.
  5. Lema, David (6 January 2018). "Acusan de plagio a Joaquín Leguina, ex presidente de la Comunidad de Madrid, y al polifacético Rubén Buren". El Mundo.


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