Joaquín Leguina

Joaquín Leguina Herrán (born 5 May 1941)[1] is a Spanish politician and writer. A member of the Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE), he became the first President of the Community of Madrid, serving from 1983 and 1995. He also was Secretary-General of the Socialist Party of Madrid from 1979 to 1991.

In this Spanish name, the first or paternal surname is Leguina and the second or maternal family name is Herrán.
Joaquín Leguina
President of the Community of Madrid
In office
13 June 1983 – 30 June 1995
MonarchJuan Carlos I
DeputyCésar Cimadevilla
Preceded byNone
Succeeded byAlberto Ruiz-Gallardón
Secretary-General of the Madrilenian Socialist Federation
In office
14 December 1979 – 2 February 1991
Preceded byAlonso Puerta
Succeeded byTeófilo Serrano
Member of the Congress of Deputies
In office
3 March 1996 – 1 April 2008
ConstituencyMadrid
In office
28 October 1982 – 8 May 1983
ConstituencyMadrid
Member of the Assembly of Madrid
In office
8 May 1983 – 1 July 1995
Member of Madrid Municipal Council
In office
15 May 1979 – 8 May 1983
Personal details
Born
Joaquín Leguina Herrán

(1941-05-05) 5 May 1941
Villaescusa, Spain
Political partySpanish Socialist Workers' Party
Alma materUniversity of the Basque Country

Biography

After leaving the presidency of the Madrid region, he became a member of the PSOE National Executive Board presided by Joaquín Almunia.[2] He also returned to the Congress of Deputies, becoming a member of the 6th, 7th and 8th terms of the Lower House in representation of Madrid. During the 8th term he chaired the Defence Committee of the Congress of Deputies.[3]

Positions

A staunch critic of the Catalan pro-independence movement, he became a member of the Libres e Iguales platform in 2014, signing their manifesto.[4][5][6] Later the same year, he likened Artur Mas to the Pied Piper of Hamelin.[7]

Works
  • Los ríos desbordados, un ensayo político. Plaza & Janes, 1994.[8]
  • La luz crepuscular. Alfaguara, 2009.[9]
  • Os salvaré la vida (together with Rubén Buren). Espasa, 2017.[10][n. 1]

Notes
  1. Awarded with the Premio de Novela Histórica Alfonso X El Sabio in 2017. The authors were accused by Gabriel Bobé of having plagiarised Arturo Barea's La forja de un rebelde.[11]

References
  1. "Ilmo. Sr. D. Joaquín Leguina Herrán". Assembly of Madrid. Archived from the original on 2018-05-13. Retrieved 2018-09-10.
  2. Hernández, E.K. (January 1999). "Partidos políticos, procesos electorales y sistema de partidos". In Lourdes López Nieto (ed.). La Comunidad de Madrid: balance de quince años de experiencia autonómica. Tres Cantos: Ediciones Akal. p. 152. ISBN 84-7090-345-4.
  3. "VIII Legislatura (2004-2008). Leguina Herrán, Joaquín". Congress of Deputies.
  4. "Firmantes del manifiesto Libres e Iguales". Libertad Digital. 15 July 2014. Archived from the original on 15 August 2019.
  5. "La plataforma Libres e Iguales llama a la 'responsabilidad civil' de los catalanes". El Mundo. 15 September 2015.
  6. "'Libres e Iguales', un movimiento cívico contra la independencia de Cataluña". Antena 3. 15 July 2014.
  7. Canal, Jordi (2018). "Entre el autonomismo y la independencia: nacionalismo, nación y procesos de nacionalización en Cataluña (1980-2015)". In Isidro Sepúlveda Muñoz (ed.). Nación y nacionalismos en la España de las autonomías. Madrid: Agencia Estatal Boletín Oficial del Estado. p. 102. ISBN 978-84-340-2494-6.
  8. Llamazares, Julio (28 September 2019). "Pactos postelectorales: la sociedad sin culpa". El País.
  9. "De un tiempo, de un país". Revista de Libros (165). September 2010. Archived from the original on 2012-06-29.
  10. Pato García, Jorge (15 October 2017). "Joaquín Leguina y Rubén Buren: Os salvaré la vida". El Imparcial.
  11. Lema, David (6 January 2018). "Acusan de plagio a Joaquín Leguina, ex presidente de la Comunidad de Madrid, y al polifacético Rubén Buren". El Mundo.


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