José Luis Corcuera

José Luis Corcuera (born 1944) is a Spanish politician who served as interior minister of Spain from 1988 to 1993.

José Luis Corcuera
José Luis Corcuera (1993)
Minister of Interior
In office
12 July 1988 – 23 November 1993
Prime MinisterFelipe González
Preceded byJosé Barrionuevo
Succeeded byAntoni Asunción Hernández
Personal details
Born1944 (age 78–79)
NationalitySpanish

Early life

Corcuera hails from a Basque family.[1] He was born in 1944 and was raised in Bilbao.[2] He left school at 14.[2]

Career

Corcuera headed the General Workers Union, a socialist trade union.[2][3] He was a member of the Spanish Congress of Deputies,[4] representing Biscay Province from 1982 to 1986 and Burgos Province from 1993 to 1994. He was appointed interior minister to the cabinet led by Prime Minister Felipe González in a reshuffle on 12 July 1988, replacing José Barrionuevo in the post.[1][5] He retained his post in a cabinet reshuffle of July 1993.[6] However, on 23 November 1993 he resigned from office due to the fact that the bill he developed, the Corcuera law, was declared unlawful.[7] Antoni Asunción replaced him as interior minister. Corcuera also resigned from his parliamentary seat.[4]

Controversy

In September 2001, Corcuera and José Barrionuevo were tried for the misuse of the public funds which occurred in 1993.[8][9] Both were found innocent of embezzlement charges in January 2002.[10]

In a detective novel entitled Sabotaje olímpico (Spanish: Olympic Sabotage) written by Manuel Vázquez Montalbán there are frequent references to Corcuera as the interior minister in a critical manner.[11]

References
  1. Robert P. Clark (1990). Negotiating with ETA: Obstacles to Peace in the Basque Country, 1975-1988. Reno, NV: University of Nevada Press. p. 220. ISBN 978-0-87417-162-4.
  2. Tom Burns (9 July 1988). "Cabinet Reshuffle in Madrid Gives Women 2 Posts". The Washington Post. Archived from the original on 5 November 2013. Retrieved 19 October 2013.
  3. Paul Delaney (19 July 1988). "Gonzalez Fights Unrest with Cabinet Shuffle". The New York Times. Retrieved 20 October 2013.
  4. Phil Davison (6 May 1994). "Gonzalez stands firm as ministers resign". The Independent. Madrid. Retrieved 19 October 2013.
  5. Paddy Woodworth (2001). Dirty War, Clean Hands: ETA, the GAL and Spanish Democracy. Cork, Ireland: Cork University Press. p. 66. ISBN 978-1-85918-276-5.
  6. Phil Davison (14 July 1993). "Gonzalez brings independents into Spain's cabinet: The left wing is shut out of new government". The Independent. Madrid. Retrieved 19 October 2013.
  7. Víctor Pérez Díaz (1999). Spain at the Crossroads: Civil Society, Politics, and the Rule of Law. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press. p. 130. ISBN 978-0-674-00052-0.
  8. Fernando Jiménez (1998). "Political scandals and political responsibility in democratic Spain". West European Politics. 21 (4): 97. doi:10.1080/01402389808425272.
  9. Giles Tremlett (20 September 2001). "Spanish ex-ministers on trial for hush fund scandal". The Guardian. Madrid. Retrieved 19 October 2013.
  10. Ciaran Giles (22 January 2002). "Court absolves former Socialist security ministers of embezzlement charges, finds five officials guilty". AP Worldstream. Archived from the original on 5 November 2013. Retrieved 19 October 2013.
  11. Carlos van Tongeren (2016). "Confronting Conspiracies in Manuel Vázquez Montalbán's Late Carvalho Novels". Neophilologus. 100 (3): 375–379. doi:10.1007/s11061-015-9467-z. hdl:2066/156295. S2CID 254873471.
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