José Manuel García-Margallo Y Marfil (born on 13 August 1944 in Madrid) is a Spanish politician and Member of the European Parliament with the People's Party, part of the European People's Party and is vice-chair of the European Parliament's Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs.
He is a substitute for the Committee on International Trade and a vice-chair of the Delegation for relations with the countries of Central America.
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In 1960, García-Margallo joined the Young Spanish Monarchists. He graduated in law in 1965 from the University of Deusto in Bilbao and subsequently worked as a tax inspector, receiving a Master's Degree in Law from the University of Harvard in 1972.
In 1976 he was one of the founder members of the People's Party (Partido Popular), a party unrelated to the current party of the same name. In 1977 that party joined others in forming the Union of the Democratic Centre, a coalition which won the first democratic elections of the modern era in Spain and formed the government from 1977 to 1982. At the 1977 election, he was elected to the Spanish Congress of Deputies as member for the single member district of Melilla[1] and was re-elected in 1979, although he lost his seat at the 1982 election to the PSOE. After the UCD disbanded in 1983, he joined the Democratic Popular Party (Partido Demócrata Popular/PDP) and returned to the Congress at the 1986 election as member for Valencia Province, retaining his seat until 1994 when he resigned after being elected to the European Parliament.[2]
See also: European Parliament election, 2004 (Spain)