Javier Arenas (politician)

Javier Arenas
Second Deputy Prime Minister of Spain
In office
3 September 2003 – 18 April 2004
MonarchJuan Carlos I
Prime MinisterJosé María Aznar
Preceded byRodrigo Rato
Succeeded byPedro Solbes
Minister of the Presidency
In office
3 September 2003 – 18 April 2004
MonarchJuan Carlos I
Prime MinisterJosé María Aznar
Preceded byMariano Rajoy
Succeeded byMaría Teresa Fernández de la Vega
Minister of Public Administrations
In office
10 July 2002 – 3 September 2003
MonarchJuan Carlos I
Prime MinisterJosé María Aznar
Preceded byJesús Posada
Succeeded byJulia García-Valdecasas
Minister of Labour and Social Affairs
In office
5 May 1996 – 18 January 1999
MonarchJuan Carlos I
Prime MinisterJosé María Aznar
Preceded byJosé Antonio Griñán
(as Minister of Labour and Social Security)
Cristina Alberdi
(as Minister of Social Affairs)
Succeeded byManuel Pimentel
President of the People's Party of Andalusia
In office
1 April 2004 – 14 July 2012
Preceded byTeófila Martínez
Succeeded byJuan Ignacio Zoido
Secretary General of the People's Party
In office
30 January 1999 – 4 September 2003
LeaderJosé María Aznar
Preceded byFrancisco Álvarez-Cascos
Succeeded byMariano Rajoy
Member of the Congress of Deputies
In office
27 March 2000 – 1 April 2008
ConstituencySeville
Senator
Incumbent
Assumed office
9 April 2008
Appointed byParliament of Andalusia
Deputy of the Parliament of Andalusia
In office
30 March 2008 – 30 December 2015
ConstituencyAlmería
Councillor of Seville City Council
In office
7 May 1983 – 10 June 1987
Personal details
Born (1957-12-28) 28 December 1957
Seville, Spain

Javier Arenas Bocanegra (born 28 December 1957)[1] is a Spanish politician.

Political career

He joined the Union of the Democratic Centre in the early 1980s and was President of Juventudes Centristas (Centrist Youth), the UCD youth organization. He was Deputy Mayor of Seville between 1983 and 1987 and was a member of the Parliament of Andalusia from 1986 until 1989 in which he served as Deputy Chair of the Justice and Government Committee. He served as a member of the Congress of Deputies from 1989 to 1994 and from 2000 to 2008 as deputy for Seville[2] and represented the same province in the Spanish Senate from 1994 to 2000. He was Deputy Secretary-General of the People's Party (PP) between 1991 and 1993.

Between July 1993 and 1999, he was President of the PP in Andalusia (Spanish: Partido Popular, PP) and resumed the role in 2004.[3] He was Employment Minister between 1996 and 1999, Secretary-General of the People's Party between 1999 and 2003 and Minister of Public Administration between 2002 and 2003. During his spell as Second Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of the Presidency between September 2003 and April 2004 one of the major pieces of legislation that he was responsible for was the Pact for Liberties and Anti-Terrorism in 2000, a bipartisan agreement between the PP and Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE), signed by both President José María Aznar and the then Leader of the Opposition Zapatero.

At the present time, he is spokesman for the Popular group in the Andalusian Parliament and Senator representing the Autonomous Community of Andalusia. He is known to be a leading moderate member of the party and associated with the Christian-Democratic sector of the Party. He was the President of the National Electoral Committee of the PP in 2008.

See also

References

  1. ↑ Francisco Robles. "Perfil de Javier Arenas ante las elecciones en Andalucía: La suerte del campeón". Archived from the original on 22 March 2012. Retrieved 19 March 2012.
  2. ↑ "HOME - Congreso de los Diputados". www.congreso.es. Retrieved 2026-07-23.
  3. ↑ "Javier Arenas, el 'niño' mimado". El País. Granada. 2 February 1994. Retrieved 5 June 2022.
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