“If there is corruption, it's because the political parties are weak.”
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José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero
José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero is a Spanish politician and member of the Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE). He was the Prime Minister of Spain being elected for two terms, in the 2004 and 2008 general elections. On 2 April 2011 he announced he would not stand for re-election in the 2011 general election and left office on 21 December 2011.
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2026· 19 entries
“The longer they put off admitting defeat and crticising themselves, the longer it will take for them to earn the confidence of their citizens.”
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“As such, we have signed an agreement to stimulate, to favour, to fuck...to help this type of tourism.”
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“You can be completely opposed to an ideological position, and I'm certainly not close to Aznar's ideas, however he was elected by the Spanish people and I demand that respect.”
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“During the next legislature, we will aim for full employment in Spain.”
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“Today, the grandeur of a country is measured by the extent to which it defends and extends its citizens' rights through its impulse towards total equality, by its capacity to create energy that contributes towards cultural, social and economic growth. That is how a country becomes strong, by making its citizens more powerful.”
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“s relations with the United States were good. In spite of that, Zapatero acknowledged years after that the phone conversation held with President George W. Bush was”
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“as I remember it, I used to participate in late night conversations with my father and brother about politics, law or literature”
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EFE Verifica rated the claim “Una fotografía muestra al expresidente del Gobierno español José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero y al rey marroquí, Mohamed VI, con un mapa de Marruecos que anexa territorios de otros países y el sur de la península ibérica.” Falso.
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Cotejo.info rated the claim “Es falso que José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero haya pedido perdón a Venezuela por casos de corrupción” Falso.
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Maldita.es rated the claim “Anuncian nulidad del caso Zapatero por manipulación de pruebas y la implicación del PP” Falso.
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Maldita.es rated the claim “Un informe de la UDEF expone que Zapatero tiene 6 cuentas bancarias en República Dominicana, 6 en México y 6 en Panamá” Contexto.
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Maldita.es rated the claim “La imputación de Zapatero es un montaje para cargarse a Sánchez” Alerta.
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Verificat rated the claim “El origen de la investigación a Zapatero es una denuncia de una organización ultra como Manos Limpias.” Engañoso.
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Maldita.es rated the claim “Las cajas que han sacado del despacho de Zapatero estaban sin precintar y se ha incumplido la Ley de Enjuiciamiento Criminal y la jurisprudencia del Supremo” Contexto.
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Maldita.es rated the claim “La Fundación Internacional para los Derechos Humanos muestra "su apoyo sin reservas" a José Luís Rodríguez Zapatero” Contexto.
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Maldita.es rated the claim “La Audiencia Nacional ha imputado a Zapatero para evitar su extradición a Estados Unidos” Contexto.
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Maldita.es rated the claim “La imputación de Zapatero viene por una denuncia de Manos Limpias que se basa en una entrevista a Aldama” Falso.
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Maldita.es rated the claim “Zapatero, imputado por blanqueo de capitales en la Audiencia Nacional en el 'caso Plus Ultra'” Contexto.
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2024· 1 entry
Maldita.es rated the claim “Zapatero utilizó el 11M para ganar las elecciones de 2004 y en este vídeo se le oye decir que iba a dramatizar” Falso.
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2019· 1 entry
Zapatero joined the inaugural meeting of the so-called Puebla Group in Buenos Aires, a conference of left-leaning political leaders
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2017· 1 entry
Zapatero became a major ally of Sánchez
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2015· 2 entries
Awarded honorary doctor of the University of Toulouse (2015).
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In order to become the President of the Advisory Board of the Institute for Cultural Diplomacy, a Berlin-based organization trying to foster intercultural relations
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2012· 1 entry
“I'm going to give you a peaceful Basque Country”
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2011· 1 entry
Awarded Collar of the Order of Isabella the Catholic (2011).
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2009· 7 entries
Awarded Order of the Star of Honour (Palestine) (2009).
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“Although the recession is strong and although hard times await us in the next 2 or 3 months, Spain will continue to grow in the second quarter of 2009.”
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“We are lucky that a crisis of this magnitude only comes around once every 80 years.”
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“The Spanish economy is not going to return to growth immediately.”
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“It's likely that the worst of the economic crisis is behind us.”
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“I'm not the right person to talk about this. It doesn't seem right to me (the price paid by Real Madrid for footballer Cristiano Ronaldo, but I understand the social significance of football.”
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“The earth belongs to nobody except the wind.”
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2008· 7 entries
Election won: 2008 election.
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Awarded Atlantida Prize (2008).
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“The PP has spent 3 years thinking about the election (in 2008), but I think that one has to give them some advice: to prepare themselves to carry on thinking, but about the election in 2012.”
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Career landmark: Member of the Congress of Deputies (2008–2011).
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“In democracy, nobody is above anybody else apart from he who is elected by the people.”
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“I think that it would do us good to have some tension [...]. From this weekend, I'm going to start to overdramatise things a little.”
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Campaign: 2008 election.
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2007· 8 entries
“To every insult we receive we will offer a proposal, to every defamatory remark, an idea, and to every exaggeration, a smile.”
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“11th Sept. 2007, during a speech by the PSOE in the Congress of Deputies.”
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“There isn't any wall, however high, however wide or however big, whatever it is made from, that can bar you from achieving a better life. There isn't any wall or pit that is in front of you to stop you from achieving a future of wellbeing.”
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“Meeting on the 14th August 2007 in Jerez, predicting another PSOE victory in the 2008 elections.”
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“Debate on the State of the Nation, 3rd July 2007”
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Zapatero's government was also responsible for a Gender Identity Law that allowed transgender persons the right to have their identity legally recognised, the criteria being one clinical evaluation and two years of treat
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“Every time a teacher leaves her classroom in Paris to put up osters of Ségolène France is illuminated.”
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“Ségolène represents personal energy, good spirits and optimism, the determination to preside, the vocation to get things done instead of talking about it; as we have done in Spain.”
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2006· 3 entries
“Given that a few days ago we had a terrible accident, a tragic terrorist attack in Barajas, in Madrid, I would like to propose to you that we show our complete condemnation, our most intense revulsion, and that we show profound solidarity with the victims.”
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“Peace needs and takes time, it needs and takes caution, it needs and takes patience after 30 years of terrorism and violence.”
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“Today things are better than a year ago. But within a year things will be even better.”
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2005· 10 entries
“The strength of a culture depends on its capacity to open itself up to other cultures, to integrate itself into them and to integrate them into it. It doesn't matter how many differences there may be, Habermas pointed out, everyone shares some principles. No culture tolerates the exploitation of human beings. No religion permits the murder of innocent people. No civilisation accepts violence or terror.”
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“Peace is not a natural state of man, as the great pacifist Gandhi told us. But man can create it. If we have broken down walls that seemed unbreakable, we will not passively agree that more profound differences should their place.”
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“We are the envy of Europe and in a few years time we are going to be one of the top countries in the world.”
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“My grandfather asked in his will that whenever it became possible, his name should be cleared so that he would no longer be denounced as a 'traitor to patriotism'. My grandfather has had a great effect on me during my life.”
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“How can a governing party propose to its people a referendum that won't be binding? Is that a serious political programme? No it is not. It's the final option that will end up with upset, at a dead end, reflecting the last 4 years of the Ibarretxe Plan”
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“Castilian Spanish speaking Spain is big, but is bigger in addition with Catalonian speaking Spain, Galician speaking Spain and Basque speaking Spain. Democratic Spain, Constitutional Spain, can not be separated from diversity and the respect to the citizenship”
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“3rd September 2005, in a meeting of the PSOE federal committee whilst tabling a motion to increase tax on alcohol and cigarettes to finance health spending.”
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“I am highly at ease and calm because we have a fairly republican king.”
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“For me, a republican is someone who defends public institutions and democratic values, someone who is a defender of public life, someone who repsects the principles of liberty, so in that sense we are very calm and at ease.”
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“Discouraging smoking and drinking is a left ideal.”
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2004· 7 entries
Awarded Grand Cross of the Order of the Sun of Peru (2004).
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“If we live together, together we must decide.”
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Career landmark: Member of the Congress of Deputies (2004–2008).
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Career landmark: Prime Minister of Spain (2004–2011).
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“Gender equality is more successful than armed force”
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And in 2005, something which they used to, as both the Spanish and American armies, being NATO allies, are part of joint humanitarian missions; American troops returned to the military parade in 2006; this time Zapatero,
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“I don't want to be a great leader. I would rather be a good democrat.”
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2003· 2 entries
14 times more water reached the sea than what was needed annually)
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“With a Socialist government, there will not be a national surplus whilst there continues to be inequality.”
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2002· 2 entries
Zapatero was chosen as the Socialist candidate for the next general election
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The People's Party Government decided to reform the system of unemployment benefits, as it thought that there were too many workers who being able to find a job preferred to continue receiving public money
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2001· 1 entry
One of the biggest points of friction between the government and the opposition were the proposed reforms affecting the education system
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2000· 29 entries
“La Tierra no pertenece a nadie, salvo al viento.”
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Career landmark: Member of the Congress of Deputies (2000–2004).
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Career landmark: Secretary General of the PSOE (2000–2012).
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Until he became Prime Minister of Spain on 14 April 2004
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The British nuclear submarine HMS Tireless arrived at Gibraltar harbour to have its nuclear reactor repaired
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“A cada insulto que recibamos nosotros una propuesta,a cada descalificación, una idea, y a cada exageración una sonrisa.”
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“Apoyaré la reforma del estatuto de Cataluña que apruebe el Parlamento de Cataluña.”
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“Con un Gobierno socialista, no habrá superávit mientras tengamos déficit social.”
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“The main priority of the Socialist Party is education.”
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“Cuanta más igualdad tengan las mujeres, más justa, más civilizada y tolerante será la sociedad. La igualdad entre sexos es mucho más efectiva contra el terrorismo que la fuerza militar.”
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“Disuadir del consumo del alcohol y el tabaco es de izquierdas.”
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“Estoy muy a gusto y muy tranquilo porque tenemos un Rey bastante republicano.”
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“Hoy estamos mejor que hace un año. Pero dentro de un año estaremos aún mejor.”
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“La España del castellano es grande, pero lo es más sumada a la España del catalán, la del gallego y la del euskera. La España democrática, la España Constitucional, es inseparable del valor de la diversidad y del respeto a su ejercicio cotidiano por todos los ciudadanos.”
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“La paz no es un estado natural del hombre, nos dejó dicho ese gran pacifista que fue Mahatma Gandhi. Pero los hombres podemos construirla. Si hemos derribado muros que parecían insalvables, no consentiremos pasivamente que fosos aún más profundos ocupen ahora su lugar.”
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“La paz necesita y merece tiempo, necesita y merece prudencia, necesita y merece paciencia después de más de treinta años de terrorismo, de violencia.”
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“Nadie está exento de estar más o menos afortunado en una declaración; todos podemos estar afortunados o no afortunados [...] Todos menos los señores del PP; es lo que parece a tenor de los comentarios que oigo.”
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“Less smoking and more reading.”
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“No quiero ser un gran líder, quiero ser un buen demócrata.”
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“Para mí un republicano es quien es defensor de las instituciones, de los valores democráticos, quien es defensor de la vida pública, quien respeta los principios de una ciudadanía libre, y en ese sentido estamos muy tranquilos y muy a gusto.”
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“Para mí, la patria es la libertad.”
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“In my opinion, patriotism is liberty.”
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“Quiero reconocer el claro error que cometí ante todos los ciudadanos españoles.”
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“Se puede constatar el fracaso del proyecto político de Merkel.”
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“Si hay un concepto discutible y discutido en la teoría política y en la ciencia constitucional, es precisamente el de nación... es algo que, en efecto, sabe cualquier estudiante de Derecho.”
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“Si vivimos juntos, juntos debemos decidir.”
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“Te voy a regalar una Euskadi en paz.”
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“Y dado que hace muy pocos días hemos tenido un trágico accidente, un trágico atentado terrorista en Barajas, en la Comunidad de Madrid, quería proponeros que mostráramos nuestra enérgica condena, nuestra repulsa más intensa, y que mostremos nuestra profunda solidaridad con las víctimas.”
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“Yo creo que nos conviene que haya tensión [...]. Yo voy a empezar, a partir de este fin de semana, a dramatizar un poco.”
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1999· 1 entry
The year of the previous election), 42 for the Socialist Party (ten fewer), 15 for the People's Party (three more), 9 for Iniciativa per Catalunya-Verds and 23 (nine more) for the Republican Left of Catalonia
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1996· 3 entries
After the General Election, Zapatero kept his seat at the Congress of Deputies
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Career landmark: Member of the Congress of Deputies (1996–2000).
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When the bad results exacerbated the internal conflicts
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1995· 1 entry
New regional and local elections were held
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1994· 1 entry
Three regional conferences were held: All of them were finally won by Zapatero or his supporters
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1993· 2 entries
Career landmark: Member of the Congress of Deputies (1993–1996).
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The Socialist Federation of León (FSL – Federación Socialista de León) suffered an important scandal
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1989· 2 entries
Career landmark: Member of the Congress of Deputies (1989–1993).
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1993, 1996 and 2000) he was number one on the list
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1988· 1 entry
Became Secretary General in León after a complex internal fight for power that ended a long period of division
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1986· 3 entries
Was elected to represent the province of León in the Cortes (Parliament), becoming its youngest member after the election held on 20 June
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After graduating, Zapatero worked as a teaching assistant in constitutional law at the University of León until 1986 (he continued working some hours a week without pay until 1991).
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Career landmark: Member of the Congress of Deputies (1986–1989).
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1982· 1 entry
Zapatero became head of the socialist youth organization in the province of León
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1979· 1 entry
During the Congreso Extraordinario del PSOE (1979), the PSOE had renounced Marxism as its ideological base
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1977· 1 entry
The year of the first democratic elections after Franco's death, Zapatero supported both the Communist and Socialist parties
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1976· 1 entry
Played a fundamental role in his decision to join the party
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1960· 1 entry
Born 1960-08-04.
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1928· 1 entry
José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero was born in Valladolid, Castile and León, to Juan Rodríguez y García-Lozano (born 1928), a lawyer, and María de la Purificación Zapatero Valero (1927–2000).
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1899· 1 entry
His maternal grandfather, Faustino Valentín Zapatero Ballesteros (1899–1978), was a paediatrician and middle class liberal.
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