Felipe González

Felipe González

Felipe González Márquez (born 5 March 1942) is a Spanish lawyer, professor, and politician, who was the Secretary-General of the Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE) from 1974 to 1997, and the 3rd Prime Minister of Spain since the restoration of democracy, from 1982 to 1996. He remains the longest-serving Prime Minister of Spain to be freely elected. González joined the PSOE in 1964 when it was banned under the Francoist regime. He obtained a law degree from the University of Seville in 1965. In 1974, the PSOE elected González as its Secretary-General after a split in its 26th Congress. After Franco's death and the beginning of the Spanish transition to democracy, González obtained a seat in the Congress of Deputies after he led the PSOE candidacy in the 1977 general election, but lost to Adolfo Suárez. After the PSOE victory in the 1982 general election, González formed his first majority government, backed by 202 out of the 350 deputies at the Congress of Deputies, and led the Government of Spain for thirteen and a half years after three additional victories in the 1986, 1989 and 1993 general elections. In 1996, González lost the election to José María Aznar and the People's Party and was elected to the Congress of Deputies for the last time in the 2000 general election, from Seville. González was born in Bellavista, Seville, the son of a small dairy farmer. He has a sister called Lola González Márquez, married to Francisco Germán Palomino Romera, by whom she has two sons, Felipe and Germán Palomino González. He studied law at Seville University and started his career as attorney specialising in labor law. While at the University he met members of the clandestine socialist trade union Unión General de Trabajadores (UGT). He also contacted members of the PSOE and started taking part in the party's clandestine activity, necessary under the dictatorship of Franco. During that time he adopted the alias Isidoro and moved to Madrid. He was elected Secretary General of the Party at the Suresnes Congress, in France. By the time of Franco's death, González had become the most prominent figure among the left-wing of the democratic opposition to the regime, and played a critical role, along with then serving Prime Minister Adolfo Suárez, in the Spanish transition to democracy. During the Suárez government, General and Deputy Prime Minister Manuel Gutiérrez Mellado asked González not to raise the debate of the Civil War and Francoist repression until the death of those of his generation. In the first democratic general election after Franco's death, held in 1977, the PSOE became the second most-voted for party, and this served González to appear as a young, active and promising leader. However, he did not win the 1979 election and had to wait for 1982 and the dissolution of the Union of the Democratic Centre party to come into office. In the 1982 general election held on 28 October 1982, the PSOE gained 48.3% of the vote and 202 deputies (out of 350). On 2 December González became President of the Government of Spain, with Alfonso Guerra as his deputy. He was the first socialist to hold the post since the Spanish Civil War, and his government was the first since then in which none of its members had served under Francoism. ... Source: Article "Felipe González" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.

  • Title: Felipe González
  • Popularity: 0.677
  • Known For: Acting
  • Birthday: 1942-03-05
  • Place of Birth: Sevilla, Sevilla, Andalucía, Spain
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  • Also Known As: Felipe González Márquez
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Felipe González Movies

  • 1959
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    El que con niños se acuesta...

    El que con niños se acuesta...

    5.3 1959 HD

    Chón is rejected by his girlfriend Rosario's parents, so they both escape to the capital in search of his friend Manny, a millionaire...

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  • 2021
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    The Replacement

    The Replacement

    6.192 2021 HD

    Spain, 1982. Andrés Expósito, a young police inspector, accepts a posting in Denia, a small town on the Mediterranean coast, in the...

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  • 2012
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    Sons of the Clouds: The Last Colony

    Sons of the Clouds: The Last Colony

    6.5 2012 HD

    The political upheaval in North Africa is responsibility of the Western powers —especially of the United States and France— due to the...

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  • 2015
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    Sanctuary

    Sanctuary

    7.2 2015 HD

    In the mid-1980s, the GAL, a Spanish paramilitary group, pursues and assassinates members of the terrorist gang ETA who have taken refuge in the...

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  • 2013
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    Franco's Settlers

    Franco's Settlers

    6 2013 HD

    Explores Llanos del Caudillo, a town from La Mancha founded in 1955 by the dictator Franco; a discreet and calm attempt to dissect recent Spanish...

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  • 2016
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    CAP: 2 Intentos

    CAP: 2 Intentos

    10 2016 HD

    A full on examination of the two presidential terms of Carlos Andres Perez in which he led the venezuelan fates: 1974-1979 and 1989-1993, known...

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  • 2003
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    The Basque Ball: Skin Against Stone

    The Basque Ball: Skin Against Stone

    6 2003 HD

    An attempt to create a bridge between the different political positions that coexist, sometimes violently, in the Basque Country, in northern Spain.

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  • 1977
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    General Report

    General Report

    6.2 1977 HD

    How does a country go from a dictatorship to a democracy? A detailed report on the political representation in the heart of the Spanish Transition,...

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  • 1982
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    Franco, un proceso histórico

    Franco, un proceso histórico

    1 1982 HD

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  • 1982
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    To er mundo e... ¡mejo!

    To er mundo e... ¡mejo!

    1.5 1982 HD

    Episode 2 of the stories of jokes in the street.

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  • 1978
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    Vota a Gundisalvo

    Vota a Gundisalvo

    3.3 1978 HD

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  • 1983
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    Después de… Primera parte: no se os puede dejar solos

    Después de… Primera parte: no se os puede dejar solos

    7 1983 HD

    A history of the Spanish Transition told in first person by the main protagonists: on the one hand, the politicians, idealistic or merely...

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  • 1983
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    Después de… Segunda parte: atado y bien atado

    Después de… Segunda parte: atado y bien atado

    7.2 1983 HD

    A history of the Spanish Transition told in first person by the main protagonists: on the one hand, the politicians, idealistic or merely...

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  • 1977
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    ¡Votad, votad, malditos!

    ¡Votad, votad, malditos!

    7 1977 HD

    On June 14, 1977, the eve of the first democratic elections after Franco's regime, Llorenç Soler and his crew go out into the street and ask...

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  • 2020
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    Lo de Évole

    Lo de Évole

    7.7 2020 HD

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  • 1975
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    Apostrophes

    Apostrophes

    8.5 1975 HD

    Apostrophes was a live, weekly, literary, prime-time, talk show on French television created and hosted by Bernard Pivot. It ran for fifteen years...

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