José Antonio Griñán

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In this
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Excelentísimo Señor
Seville
Personal details
Born (1946-06-07) 7 June 1946 (age 77)
Public servant

José Antonio Griñán Martínez (born 7 June 1946) is a

President of the Regional Government of Andalusia.[1] He was sentenced to 6 years of prison due to prevarication and embezzlement of public funds in the granting of aid to companies in crisis for 10 years worth 680 million euros.[2]

He replaced Manuel Chaves when Chaves was named Third Deputy Prime Minister of Spain of the Government of Spain in charge of Territorial Policy.[3] In 2013 he announced his intention of stepping down and was subsequently replaced by the then regional Minister of the Presidency Susana Díaz.

Biography

Born in Madrid in 1946, his family moved to Andalusia. He graduated in law at the University of Seville, and started a public service career, finishing with the third best result on the 1969 competitive examination for the position of junior labour inspector, his first assignment was in 1970 in Zaragoza and he finally established in 1974, in Seville.

He joined the PSOE at the beginning of the 1980s, and after the socialist victory in the

Congress of Deputies. First elected in the 1993 Spanish General election, he was reelected in 1996 and 2000. There, he served as twice as a minister during the Felipe González premiership: from 1992 to 1993 as minister of health and consumption and from 1993 to 1996 as ministry labour and social affairs
. By March 2004 he served instead as deputy for Córdoba in the Parliament of Andalusia.

In April 2004, Manuel Chaves named him minister of economy and finance, and later, in 2008, he was given the additional role of second vice president of Andalusia . On 5 April 2009, after the naming of Chaves as their vice president of Spain, his name was announced as the most likely successor Chaves at the Presidency of Andalusia, and eight days later the Regional Committee of the PSOE-A (the Andalusian federation of PSOE) officially proclaimed his candidature.

On 19 November 2019, Griñán was convicted to six years of prison, and banned for fifteen years from holding any public office, for crimes of perverting the course of justice and embezzlement related to the ERE lawsuit [es].

Presidency

On 22 April 2009 Griñán was voted in as

High Court of Andalusia, Augusto Méndez de Lugo
.

In the

2012 regional election his party, PSOE, lost the absolute majority in the Parliament getting only 47 seats out of 109. Griñán had to make an agreement with United Left to secure a majority coalition government and keep his position as the President of Andalusia. In the terms of this agreement, the leader of United Left, Diego Valderas
, became the vice-president of Andalusia. On 26 June 2013 he announced he would not seek reelection. His party entered in a substitute election process won by Susana Díaz. On 27 August Griñán announced he was stepping down. On 7 September Díaz took the chair.

Then he entered the Senate as senator autonomy elected by the Parliament of Andalusia. On 15 June 2015 he left his seat as senator autonomy after being charged in the corruption scandal case named ERE.

Honors

Griñán is a recipient of the Grand Cross of the Order of Charles III, which gives him the honorific of Excelentísimo Señor. [citation needed]

Notes

  1. ^
    BOJA
    2009/77, 23 April 2009. Retrieved 22 December 2009.
  2. ^ LaInformacion (19 November 2019). "Seis años de prisión a Griñan por el caso de los ERE y 9 de inhabilitación a Chaves". La Información (in Spanish). Retrieved 2019-11-19.
  3. Europa Press
    , 5 April 2009. Retrieved 22 December 2009.

External links

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  • (in Spanish) Official page as president of the Andalusian Autonomous Government
Political offices
Preceded by Councillor of Health of Andalusia
1990–1992 		Succeeded by
Preceded by Minister of Health and Consumption
1992–1993 		Succeeded by
Preceded by
Minister of Labor and Social Policy

1993–1996 		Succeeded by
Javier Arenas
Preceded by Councillor of Economy and Finance of Andalusia
2004–2009 		Succeeded by
Preceded by
Office created
 Second Vice President of the Regional Government of Andalusia
2008–2009 		Succeeded by
Office abolished
Preceded by President of the Regional Government of Andalusia
2009–2013 		Succeeded by
Party political offices
Preceded by Secretary-General of the Socialist Workers' Party of Andalusia
2010–2013 		Succeeded by
Preceded by President of the Spanish Socialist Workers' Party
2012–2014 		Succeeded by
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