Juan Ignacio Zoido | |
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Member of the European Parliament for Spain | |
Assumed office 3 July 2019 | |
Minister of the Interior | |
In office 4 November 2016 – 1 June 2018 | |
Monarch | Felipe VI |
Prime Minister | Mariano Rajoy |
Preceded by | Jorge Fernández Díaz |
Succeeded by | Fernando Grande-Marlaska |
Mayor of Seville | |
In office 11 June 2011 – 15 June 2015 | |
Preceded by | Alfredo Sánchez Monteseirín |
Succeeded by | Juan Espadas |
Member of the Congress of Deputies | |
In office 13 January 2016 – 21 May 2019 | |
Constituency | Seville |
Personal details | |
Born | Juan Ignacio Zoido Álvarez 21 January 1957 Montellano, Seville, Andalusia, Spain |
Political party | People's Party (1989–present) |
Alma mater | University of Seville |
Occupation | Judge, Politician |
Juan Ignacio Zoido Álvarez (pronounced [xwaniɣ'naθjo 'θojðo]; born 21 January 1957) is a Spanish former judge and politician of the People's Party, who has been serving as Member of the European Parliament since 2019. In Parliament, he has since been serving on the Committee on Agriculture and Rural Development.
Zoido was the Minister of the Interior between November 2016 and June 2018, when a vote of no-confidence against Mariano Rajoy ousted the government. He has previously been Mayor of Seville from 2011 to 2015, Member of the Parliament of Andalusia from 2008 to 2014 and Chairman of the People's Party of Andalusia from 2012 to 2014.[1]