Rosa Aguilar

Joaquina Rosa Aguilar Rivero (* July 7, 1957 in Córdoba ) is a Spanish politician without party affiliation. She was among other things, 1999-2009 Mayor of Córdoba Izquierda Unida for the party (IU ) and 21 October 2010 to December 2011 Environment Minister in the Cabinet Zapatero II

Career

Rosa Aguilar studied from 1974 to 1980 at the Colegio Universitario law de Córdoba and the University of Seville. In 1974, she also joined the Communist Party of Spain (PCE ), which was forbidden at that time still of the Franco dictatorship. 1978, after its legalization in the train of the Spanish democracy, she joined the union Comisiones Obreras. After completing her studies, she worked in the legal department of the union in 1985 she founded together with some colleagues a law firm that specialized in commercial, labor and marriage law.

1987 Aguilar left this office after she had been elected at the municipal Izquierda Unida for where the PCE had now risen to the City Council of Córdoba. This she served on until 1991. 1990 to 1993 she was also a Member of the Regional Parliament of Andalusia. In the Spanish general elections 1993, she was finally rid of Deputies elected in the Congreso de, to which she belonged up to the parliamentary elections in 2000.

Mayor of Córdoba

1999 Aguilar was Mayor of Córdoba for a local coalition agreement between IU and the social democratic PSOE. In the local elections IU nine, the PSOE had received six seats in the city council, which they surpassed together the fourteen members of the conservative PP scarce. Four years later, IU scored at the municipal election 41.8 % of the vote and thirteen MPs (compared with twelve of the PP and the PSOE four ). Aguilar court then made a tolerated by the PSOE minority government alone IU, a novelty in Spanish politics. 2007 IU fell back to 35.5% and eleven seats in the city council (compared to fourteen of the PP and the PSOE four ), whereupon Aguilar again entered into a coalition with the PSOE. In 2003 she was second vice president of the Spanish Federation of Municipalities y Provincias, the Spanish Association of Cities.

Through their local election successes Aguilar to one of the most famous personalities of their party was. The party leadership, she was responsible for Institutional Relations and belonged to the moderate wing of the party coordinator Gaspar Llamazares supported against the rather anti-capitalist party aligned currents. At the same time she took always a critical positions against the IU policy. They criticized the regional coalition of Basque IU Association Ezker Batua with the moderate Basque nationalist PNV under Juan José Ibarretxe or participation of Ezker Batua to the municipal government of Mondragón under the leadership of ETA -affiliated party ANV after 2007. Moreover, they criticized that IU rejected the EU Constitution, and declared the only known member of IU support for the existing government in Spain form of parliamentary monarchy.

After the poor results of the IU in the Spanish parliamentary elections in 2008 Aguilar was seen as a possible successor to the retiring Gaspar Llamazares. However, in view of disputes with the left wing of the party that made a majority seem unlikely, they renounced his candidacy and retained her post as party secretary for Institutional Relations.

Member of the Andalusian Government

On 23 April 2009 Aguilar came surprisingly from from the IU to accept as the Independent minister of Public Works and Transport in of the PSOE by an absolute majority alone guided the Andalusian Regional Government. Shortly before José Antonio Manuel Chaves Griñán had replaced as Regional President. Aguilar's decision caused widespread criticism of the IU party leadership.

Spanish Minister of the Environment

On 21 October 2010 Aguilar, José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero ( PSOE) was appointed in a cabinet reshuffle to the Spanish Minister of the Environment. In this office she followed Elena Espinosa after.

  • Minister (Spain )
  • Member of the Junta de Andalucía
  • Mayor (Spain )
  • Deputy in the Congreso de los Deputies
  • Deputy in the Parlamento de Andalucía
  • PCE- Member
  • Spaniard
  • Born in 1957
  • Woman
United Left (Spain) Spanish general election, 1993 Spanish general election, 2000 Manuel Chaves González
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