Manuel Chaves González

Manuel Chaves González [ Manwel tʃaβes ] (* July 7, 1945 in Ceuta ) is a Spanish politician. He was from April 2009 to December 2011 Minister of Territorial Policy and Third Deputy Prime Minister in the Cabinet Zapatero. Previously, he was from 1990 to 2009 President of the Regional Government of Andalusia. Since 2000 he also holds the - largely representative - Office of the Chairman of the Partido Socialista Obrero Español ( PSOE).

Life

Manuel Chaves González in the mid- 1960s became interested in politics while studying law at the University of Seville. During this time he learned many activists against Francoism know, among other things, Amparo Rubiales, Javier Pérez Royo, Rafael Escuredo and Felipe González. Since 1968 he is active in the PSOE and the union Unión General de Trabajadores. He became a professor at the University of Seville, 1972 at the University of Cadiz and 1976 at the Autonomous University of Bilbao 1968. Between 1977 and 1990 he was a deputy for the province of Cádiz in the Congreso de los Deputies. In the cabinet of Felipe González, he was between 1986 and 1990 Minister of Labour and Social Security. In 1990 he became President of the Autonomous Community of Andalusia, 1994, he was also Secretary-General and thus the most important leader of the Andalusian Regional Association of the PSOE.

After the heavy defeat of the PSOE in the Spanish 2000 elections and the resignation of the Secretary-General and leading candidate Joaquín Almunia Chaves headed the interim committee that organized the party on which José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero was elected as the new Secretary General. This then proposed Chaves as the successor of the deceased in the previous year Ramón Rubial for the post of party chairman before that, however, has essentially only representative functions.

On 7 April 2009 the elected in 2004 to the Prime Minister Zapatero announced as part of a comprehensive reshuffle in Chaves ' appointment as Minister of Territorial Policy. As such Chaves is primarily responsible for the relations between the central government and the Autonomous Communities. He also took over the newly created Office of the Third Vice President of the Government. When his successor as president of Andalusia José Antonio Griñán was chosen.

Scandals

Chaves political career is overshadowed by two major scandals. Also called reptiles Fund - - In the case of the ERE is about a number of significant irregularities in early retirement, in which included elected representatives from the PSOE to the beneficiaries.

Another scandal was the case Matsa. The company Matsa, in the Chaves ' daughter worked as a lawyer, received orders on the part of the autonomous community.