Juan Fernando López Aguilar

Juan Fernando López Aguilar ( born June 10, 1961 in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain ) is a Spanish politician. He is a member of the Socialist Workers Party of Spain and the PSOE Member of the European Parliament. Previously, he served as 2004-2007 Spanish Minister of Justice.

Life

Juan Fernando López Aguilar is not married.

López Aguilar completed a law degree at the University of Granada, a politics and sociology at the University Complutense in Madrid and law at the University of Boston. At the University of Bologna he obtained the law promotion. In 1993 he became a professor of constitutional law at the University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria.

Then he obtained the professorship Jean Monnet on Legal Affairs and European Integration and Master of Law & Diplomacy A. at the Fletcher School of Law & Diplomacy (Massachusetts ).

Political career

1983 joined López Aguilar of the Socialist Workers Party of Spain PSOE at. Between 1990 and 1993 he was a parliamentary adviser to the Minister of Justice Enrique Múgica and Tomás Quadra - Salcedo. From 1993 to 1996 Aguilar was Head of the Minister's Office with Prime Jerónimo Saavedra in the ministries of Public Administration and Education. Since 1996, López Aguilar member of the Spanish Parliament, the Cortes. In 1999, he was the top candidate of the PSOE to the Presidency of the Government of the Canary Islands. Since July 2000, he was Secretary of Public Freedoms and the development of the Autonomous Regions of the board of the PSOE.

From 18 April 2004 to February 12, 2007 López Aguilar was Attorney General of the Zapatero government.

On October 28, 2006 López Aguilar was officially appointed as the candidate of the PSOE to the presidency of the Canary Islands for the regional elections on 27 May 2007, for this he resigned in February 2007 from his post as minister of justice in Spain. His party gained in this election 34.6 percent of the votes and became the largest party. After the coalition negotiations, however, Paulino Rivero Baute succeeded by the regionalist Coalition Canaria (CC ) to be appointed with the help of the conservative Partido Popular (PP ), President of the Canary Islands.

( - PSC, Canarian branch of the PSOE Partido Socialista de Canarias ) elected on 20 October 2007 López Aguilar was charged with 92.97 percent of the vote as the new Secretary General of the Canary Socialists. So He took over from his predecessor, Juan Carlos Alemán, who has held the post since 1988. In the European elections in Spain 2009 López Aguilar stood as the top candidate of the PSOE and achieved expected a seat in the European Parliament, where he was elected Chairman of the Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs.