Pedro Sánchez (politician)
| Pedro Sánchez | |
|---|---|
 | |
| Leader of the Opposition | |
| Incumbent | |
| Assumed office 26 July 2014 | |
| Monarch | Felipe VI |
| Prime Minister | Mariano Rajoy |
| Preceded by | Alfredo Pérez Rubalcaba |
| Secretary-General of the Spanish Socialist Workers' Party | |
| Incumbent | |
| Assumed office 26 July 2014 | |
| President | Micaela Navarro |
| Preceded by | Alfredo Pérez Rubalcaba |
| Personal details | |
| Born | Pedro Sánchez Pérez-Castejón 29 February 1972 Madrid, Spain |
| Political party | Spanish Socialist Workers' Party |
| Spouse(s) | Begoña Fernández |
| Children | Ainhoa Carlota |
| Alma mater | Complutense University Free University of Brussels, French University of Navarra Camilo José Cela University |
| Religion | None[1] |
| Signature |  |
Pedro Sánchez Pérez-Castejón (born 29 February 1972) is a Spanish politician who has been the Secretary-General of the Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE) since 2014.
A city councillor for Madrid between 2004 and 2009 and a member of the Spanish Congress of Deputies for Madrid, he was elected as Secretary-General of the PSOE in 2014 after the first primary elections held by the PSOE in its history;[2] he was confirmed as such in the Extraordinary Federal Congress.[3] He won with 49 percent of the vote against his opponents Eduardo Madina and José Antonio Pérez-Tapias,[4] representing a platform based on political regeneration; a constitutional reform establishing federalism as the form of administrative organisation of Spain in order to ensure Catalonia's stay inside the country; a new, progressive, fiscal policy; extending welfare rights to all citizens; joining labour unions again to strengthen economic recovery; and regaining the confidence of former Socialist voters disenchanted by the measures taken by José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero during his late term as the Prime Minister of Spain amid an economic crisis. He also opposes the grand coalition model supported by the former Socialist Prime Minister Felipe González, who championed the German system in case of political instability. Sánchez asked his European party caucus not to vote for the consensual candidate Jean-Claude Juncker of the European People's Party.[5]
He is an economics professor at the Camilo José Cela University, a private higher education centre in Madrid. He is married to Begoña Fernández and has two daughters.
| ||||||||||||||||||||||