Alfonso Guerra

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Alfonso Guerra González
Seville
Personal details
Born
Alfonso Guerra González

(1940-05-31) 31 May 1940 (age 83)
Seville, Spain
Political partyPSOE
Alma materUniversity of Seville

Alfonso Guerra González (born 31 May 1940) is a Spanish politician. A leading member of the

Congress of Deputies
from 1977 to 2015, and was the longest-serving deputy at the time of his departure.

In 1988 Guerra received an

Universidad Nacional Federico Villarreal in Lima, Peru, and he was awarded the Medaglia D'oro in 1984 by the Sapienza University of Rome
.

Guerra was an extremely controversial politician, noted for his acid discourse against his opponents - which was criticised as

demagogy by his political adversaries. He was forced to quit his position as vice-president after a financial scandal involving his brother Juan Guerra.[3][4][5]

On 5 November 2014, Guerra announced that he would be resigning from congress at the end of the parliamentary session in December 2014.[6] At the time of his resignation announcement, he was the longest serving member of congress.[7]

References

  1. ^ Real Decreto 3294/1982, de 2 de diciembre. BOE 3 December 1982
  2. ^ Real Decreto 5/1991, de 14 de enero. BOE 15 January 1991
  3. ^ Axel Tschentscher. "Spain Index". ICL. Retrieved 7 July 2013.
  4. ^ "Spain's Leader Feels the Heat From Scandal". The New York Times. 17 September 1990. Retrieved 7 July 2013.
  5. ^ Heywood, Paul (1 October 1995). "Sleaze in Spain". Parliamentary Affairs. Retrieved 7 July 2013.
  6. ^ Alfonso Guerra dejará el escaño en diciembre tras 37 años en el Congreso, El País, 5 December 2014
  7. ^ El diputado más veterano en el Congreso, La Provincia: diario de Las Palmas, 5 November 2014, accessed 19 November 2014
Political offices
Preceded by
Deputy Prime Minister of Spain

1982–1991
Succeeded by
Party political offices
Preceded by Secretary of Organization of the Spanish Socialist Workers' Party
1976–1979
Succeeded by
Preceded by Leader of the
Congress of Deputies

1979–1982
Succeeded by
First Deputy Secretary-General of the PSOE
1979–1997
Vacant
None elected until 2008
Title next held by
José Blanco