Alejo Vidal-Quadras Roca

Alejo Vidal- Quadras Roca ( born May 20, 1945 in Barcelona, also known by the Catalan form of the name Aleix Vidal- Quadras ) is a Spanish politician of the conservative party PP and Member of the European Parliament.

Life

Vidal- Quadras studied nuclear physics at the Autonomous University of Barcelona, where he graduated in 1975 with honors. After that, he was a professor of nuclear physics as well as guest lecturer at the Centre de Recherches Nucléaires in Strasbourg and at University College Dublin at the same university. In 1983 he was awarded the Prize of the Spanish Nuclear Energy Agency.

In the Catalan regional elections in 1980, he took up for the small party solidarity Catalana, but was not elected. In regional elections in 1988 he moved into the Catalan regional parliament for the conservative Partido Popular. From 1990 to 1996 he was Group Chairman and President of the Regional Council of his party. He was also a 1991 to 1995 the city council of Barcelona. In regional elections in 1992 and 1995, he took up as the top- candidate of the PP, which has traditionally been poorly represented in Catalonia. He was able to significantly improve their election results and achieved in 1995 with 17 members the best result of the PP in Catalonia at all, but still remained far behind the ruling party Convergència i Unio ( CiU ) Jordi Pujol under back.

Since 1993, Vidal- Quadras is a member of spain wide PP National Executive. From 1995 to 1999 he was a member of the Spanish Senate.

After the Spanish regime change in 1996, in which José María Aznar (PP ) by using the voices of CiU Prime Minister of Spain was to Vidal- Quadras moved - who had strongly criticized during his tenure in the Catalan Parliament Jordi Pujol and the CiU - from the Regional Policy.

Instead won Vidal -Quadras at the 2009 European election for the PP a seat in the European Parliament, where he joined the EPP-ED group joined and was elected Vice President of the Parliament. He is also a member of the Committee on Industry, Research and Energy. In the European elections in Spain in 2009, he took up to fourth place in the list of his party and was re-elected.

In addition to his publications as a scientist Vidal-Quadras has written numerous articles for the right-wing daily La Razon as well as several books on political issues. In April 2008 he received the Order of the French Legion of Honour for his work in the European Parliament.

Vidal- Quadras has been married to his second wife and three children.

Political positions

Alejo Vidal -Quadras is considered a member of the conservative wing of the PP, particularly with regard to his rejection of regional nationalisms, as they are in Spain as in Catalonia, the Basque Country and Galicia. In 1996, he criticized therefore cooperation between the PP government under José María Aznar and the Catalan nationalist party CiU. In 2008, he sat on a Congress of the PP by a political strategy by which the party should seek coalitions with the also total Spanish socialist party PSOE, if possible, to avoid participation in government nationalist parties. This affected about by the Basque regional elections in 2009, after which the PP a minority government supported the PSOE, which replaced the previous Basque nationalist PNV government.

The language policy in Catalonia, which aims at equality of Catalan in the Spanish language and uses some means of positive discrimination is rejected by Vidal- Quadras. In particular, in Catalan it occurs against the compulsory schooling and spoke repeatedly called for the right of parents to choose the language itself, in which their child is to be taught. For this purpose, founded Vidal-Quadras the union Convivencia Cívica Catalana, which campaigns for a change in the Catalan language law.

Vidal- Quadras is aggressively promoting the controversial Volksmodschahedin Organization ( MEK ), an exiled Iranian opposition group, a.

He is the first chairman of the European Committee "In the search of Justice ( ISJ - ECDP ) " which consists of various members of the European Parliament, as well as parliamentarians from France, Britain and Italy and some European jurists and of itself for the removal of the MEK from EU Terroliste has used and currently also calls for the removal of MEK from the U.S. terrorist list. As honorary president of the inter-parliamentary group "Friends of a Free Iran ( fofi ) " of the European Parliament, he also supports the call of the MEK against the dissolution of the MEK - vertex "Camp Ashraf " in Iraq.

MEPs

Vidal- Quadras is one of the Viezepräsidenten the European Parliament. He is a member in the Bureau of the European Parliament, Committee on Industry, Research and Energy and the Delegation for relations with Iraq. Deputy, he is in the Committee on Foreign Affairs and the Delegation to the Parliamentary Cooperation Committees EU -Kazakhstan, EU -Kyrgyzstan and EU-Uzbekistan, and for relations with Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Mongolia.

Political Publications

• Cuestión de fondo (Editorial Montesinos, 1993).
• ¿ Qué la derecha it? (Editorial Destino, 1997).
• En el del bien y del mal Fragor ( Espasa Calpe, 1997).
• Amara's a tu tribu (Editorial Planeta, 1998).
• La Constitución traicionada (Editorial Libros Libres, 2006).