Manuel Chaves (politician)

Manuel Chaves
Second Deputy Prime Minister of Spain
In office
11 July 2011 – 21 December 2011
Prime MinisterJosé Luis Zapatero
Preceded byElena Salgado
Succeeded byPablo Iglesias Turrión (2020)
Third Deputy Prime Minister of Spain
In office
7 April 2009 – 11 July 2011
Prime MinisterJosé Luis Zapatero
Preceded byFernando Abril Martorell (1978)
Succeeded byNadia Calviño (2020)
Minister of Territorial Policy
In office
7 April 2009 – 20 October 2010
Prime MinisterJosé Luis Zapatero
Preceded byElena Salgado
Succeeded byHimself (As Minister of Territorial Policy and Public Administration)
Minister of Territorial Policy and Public Administration
In office
20 October 2010 – 21 December 2011
Prime MinisterJosé Luis Zapatero
Preceded byHimself (As Minister of Territorial Policy)
Succeeded byCristóbal Montoro (As Minister of Finance and Public Administration)
3rd President of the Regional Government of Andalusia
In office
25 July 1990 – 7 April 2009
MonarchJuan Carlos I
Preceded byJosé Rodríguez de la Borbolla
Succeeded byGaspar Zarrías (acting)
Minister of Labor and National Health Service
In office
26 July 1986 – 2 May 1990
Prime MinisterFelipe González Márquez
Preceded byJoaquín Almunia
Succeeded byLuis Martínez Noval
Member of the Congress of Deputies
In office
13 December 2011 – 25 June 2015
ConstituencyCádiz
In office
15 June 1977 – 12 June 1990
ConstituencyCádiz
Member of the Parliament of Andalusia
In office
23 June 1990 – 7 April 2009
ConstituencyCádiz
Personal details
Born (1945-07-07) 7 July 1945 (age 79)
Ceuta, Spanish State
Political partySocialist Workers' Party

Manuel Chaves González (born 7 July 1945) is a Spanish politician who served as Third Deputy Prime Minister of Spain from 2009 to 2011 and Second Deputy Prime Minister of Spain in 2011. He is a member of the Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE)[1] and was the Chairman of PSOE from 2000 to 2012. From 1990 to 2009 he was the President of the Regional Government of Andalusia.[2][3] He is a trustee of the Fundacion IDEAS, a socialist think tank. On 17 February 2015, together with former President of Andalusia, José Antonio Griñán, was implicated in the ERE case, a huge corruption scandal in the region.

  1. ^ "Manuel Chaves González". Ministerio de Política Territorial (in Spanish). Gobierno de España. Archived from the original on 11 April 2010. Retrieved 9 August 2010.
  2. ^ h.b. (20 September 2007). "Manuel Chaves González: President of the Junta de Andalucía". Typically Spanish. Archived from the original on 30 August 2008.
  3. ^ "Manuel Chaves González". El País. Prisa. 9 August 2010. Archived from the original on 5 August 2010.