Joaquín Leguina

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
BornJoaquín Leguina Herrán
(1941-05-05) 5 May 1941 (age 84)
Villaescusa, Spain
PartySpanish Socialist Workers' Party (until 2022)
Alma materUniversity of the Basque Country

Joaquín Leguina Herrán (born 5 May 1941)[1] is a Spanish politician and writer. A former member of the Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE) from which he was expelled in 2022 over strong differences with Pedro Sánchez, 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.

Biography

Early career

Leguina was born in Villaescusa, Cantabria. He graduated in General Economics, specialising in Economic Science at the University of Bilbao in 1964. In November 1972 he achieved his Doctorate in Economic Science at the Complutense University of Madrid, reading Foundations and applications of demographic analysis. In February 1973 he received a second Doctorate in Demography at the Sorbonne on the Analysis of and perspectives on the total population and the workforce: Spain 1960–1980.

Leguina started to work for the government as a Faculty Statistician for the National Statistics Institute in 1967. Between 1968 and 1972 and again between 1974 and 1979, he was a professor at the Complutense University. Between 1970 and 1973 he represented Spain at various international demographics conferences including at the United Nations, OECD and Council of Europe.

In 1973, he became a demographics expert for the UNECLAC. As a member of the organisation in Chile, he was a witness to the coup d'état by Augusto Pinochet.

Political career

Leguina had engaged in political activities at university, in anti-fascist groups. He joined the Popular Liberation Front, later the Socialist Convergence of Madrid, which later merged into the PSOE.

He was elected to the City Council of Madrid in the 1979 local elections and joined the Finance Ministry headed by Enrique Tierno Galván. Leguina was elected the General Secretary of the Madrilenian Socialist Federation. At the 1982 general election, Leguina was elected for the Madrid constituency, but resigned his seat shortly after being elected once the PSOE won an overall majority in the 1983 Assembly election. He became the President of the Community of Madrid on 15 June 1983, a position he held until the 1995 elections, when he was succeeded by Alberto Ruiz-Gallardón. Leguina faced a confidence vote in 1989, but stayed in power due to an AP rebel, Nicolás Piñeiro Cuesta, who gave his vote to Leguina.

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.

Peña Rodríguez, Francisco José (January 2008). La obra literaria de Joaquín Leguina (1985-2006) (PhD thesis). Autonomous University of Madrid. Retrieved 2025-11-29.


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