José María Barreda | |
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President of Castile-La Mancha | |
In office 29 April 2004 – 22 June 2011 | |
Monarch | Juan Carlos I |
Preceded by | José Bono |
Succeeded by | María Dolores de Cospedal |
President of the Cortes of Castile-La Mancha | |
In office 21 June 1991 – 8 July 1997 | |
Preceded by | José Manuel Martínez Cenzano |
Succeeded by | María del Carmen Blázquez |
Member of the Congress of Deputies | |
Incumbent | |
Assumed office 13 December 2011 | |
Constituency | Ciudad Real |
Member of the Senate | |
In office 21 November 1989 – 16 October 1991 | |
Constituency | Castile-La Mancha |
Member of the Cortes of Castile-La Mancha | |
In office 10 June 1987 – 9 December 2011 | |
Constituency | Ciudad Real; Toledo |
Personal details | |
Born | (1953-02-04) 4 February 1953 (age 71) Ciudad Real, Spain |
Political party | Spanish Socialist Workers' Party |
José María Barreda Fontes (born 4 February 1953) is a Spanish politician and historian. A member of the Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE), he served as President of the Junta of Communities of Castilla–La Mancha from 2004 until 2011. As of 2019, he works as senior lecturer of Contemporary History at the University of Castilla–La Mancha.
Biography
Barreda, who was born in Ciudad Real, is a descendant of a Spanish noble family and holds a doctorate in history and geography and a BA in philosophy and letters from the Complutense University of Madrid. He received a scholarship from the Spanish National Research Council to fund his post-doctoral research and is currently a tenured professor of contemporary history at the University of Castile-La Mancha.
Barreda met his wife, Clementina Díez de Baldeón, a socialist deputy for the Province of Ciudad Real, while still at university; the couple have two children.
Political career
Barreda's first elected position was to the municipal council of Ciudad Real, a post he held from 1983-1987. During that period, he was the Minister for Education and Culture in the first regional Government of José Bono. As a Minister, he oversaw the creation of the University of Castile-La Mancha, launched the regional network of libraries, cultural centres, theatres and auditoria, and organised the conversion of the library at the Alcázar of Toledo.
Barreda became the regional Minister for Institutional Relations in January 1988; he only held the portfolio for four months, however, as he became the region's vice-president in May of the same year. He served as vice-president until November 1989, when the Cortes of Castile-La Mancha—the regional parliament—appointed him to be one of the region's two representatives in the Spanish Senate. He returned to Castile-La Mancha in June 1991 to serve as the President of the Cortes Regionales. Barreda remained in the post until July 1997, when he was forced to resign following his appointment as the regional general-secretary of the Spanish Socialist Workers' Party. Following the 1999 regional elections, Barreda returned to his old post of vice-president of Castile-La Mancha.
President of Castile-La Mancha
In April 2004, after more than 20 years as President of Castile-La Mancha, Bono was named as the Minister of Defence in José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero newly elected government. Barreda took over from Bono as President of Castile-La Mancha and was his party's candidate in the 2007 regional elections, where he retained his position, albeit with a reduced majority.
References
- Miguel Ángel Marfull (2 February 2010). "Barreda incomoda al PSOE al pedir a Zapatero otro Gobierno" (in Spanish). Público. Retrieved 15 February 2010.
- "José María Barreda ingresará en Instituto de Estudios Manchegos". El Digital Ciudad Real. 15 November 2019. Archived from the original on 21 December 2019. Retrieved 3 August 2020.
- ^ José María Barreda (5 March 2009). "José María Barreda - Mi Perfil" (in Spanish). jmbarreda.com. Archived from the original on 6 April 2010. Retrieved 14 February 2010.
- ^ "Presidencia de la Junta" (in Spanish). Gobiermo de Castile-La Mancha. 2 July 2007. Archived from the original on 8 March 2010. Retrieved 14 February 2010.
- ^ "José María Barreda Fontes". typicallyspanish.com. 12 March 2008. Archived from the original on 29 September 2011. Retrieved 15 February 2010.
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Political offices | ||
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Preceded byVicente Acebedo Flórez | Regional Minister of Educaction and Culture of Castile-La Mancha 1983–1987 |
Succeeded byJuan Sisino Pérez Garzón |
Preceded byNone | Vice President of Castile-La Mancha 1988-1989 |
Succeeded byFernando López Carrasco |
Preceded byJosé Manuel Martínez Cenzano | President of the Cortes of Castile-La Mancha 1991–1997 |
Succeeded byMaría del Carmen Blázquez |
Preceded byFernando López Carrasco | Vice President of Castile-La Mancha 1999-2004 |
Succeeded byMaría Luisa Araújo |
Preceded byManuel Marín | President of Castile-La Mancha 2004-2011 |
Succeeded byMaría Dolores de Cospedal |
Party political offices | ||
Preceded byJuan Pedro Hernández Moltó | Secretary-General of the PSOE-Castile-La Mancha 1997-2012 |
Succeeded byEmiliano García-Page |
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