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Adolfo Suárez González
When in July 1976 King Juan Carlos I commissioned the formation of the second government of his reign and the consequent dismantling of the Francoist structures, Suarez was a perfect unknown to a majority of the Spanish people. However, at 43, with many difficulties, he was able to bring together a group of politicians of his generation who had reached democratic convictions in different ways.Santiago Carrillo, described Suárez as "intelligent anti-communist". -
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Leopoldo Calvo-Sotelo y Bustelo
During his government a large agreement was signed for employment with the trade unions and employers, the divorce law was passed,Spain joined NATO and the regional map was closed. His government appealed the ruling of the Military Justice, so that Civil Justice would have the last word on the issue of the coup of 23F.The official flag of Spain was modified, eliminating the eagle of San Juan, and leaving only the national shield, also reformed taking as model the royal standard of Juan Carlos I. -
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Felipe González Márquez
After the victory obtained by the PSOE in the elections of October 28,1982,in addition to occupying the highest number of deputies to date, was elected president of the Spanish Government by the Congress of Deputies, and led a government with Alfonso Guerra of vice president. This achievement meant that for the first time a left party was going to form a government. In addition, according to many historians, the period known as the Spanish Transition culminated, beginning the Second Legislature. -
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José María Aznar
His government stood out for the liberalization and deregulation of the economy, while cutting state spending and privatizing various state-owned companies in strategic sectors. The economy grew and the country met the convergence criteria set in Maastricht and was integrated into the group of countries that would have the euro as a new currency. His government had to deal with the murder by ETA of Miguel Ángel Blanco and others. Although later I work with them. -
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José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero
José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero (Valladolid, August 4, 1960) is a socialist politician and Spanish State Councilor. Member of the Spanish Socialist Workers Party, he has been the fifth president of the Government since the democratic transition, after his victory in the general elections of 2004, and again in the ix legislature, after revalidating his position in the 2008 elections.
Rodríguez Zapatero is popularly identified by his second surname and also by the acronym ZP (Zapatero President). -
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Mariano Rajoy Brey
On December 20, 2011, Mariano Rajoy was sworn in as president of the government and on the 21st he was sworn in before the king.81 On the 30th, as soon as it was constituted, the new cabinet agreed to a sharp reduction in public spending to control the budget deficit and an increase in IRPF and IBI, thus continuing with the adjustment policies of the previous government and with the "structural reforms", the most important of which was the labor reform designed by the Minister of Employment. -
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Pedro Sánchez
Sánchez was inaugurated as president of the Government in June 2018. He is the seventh head of government of the current democratic period. Some of the most important measures of the first hundred days of his Government have been the exhumation of the tomb of the dictator Francisco Franco from the Valley of the Fallen, the search for "a European approach and respectful of human rights" for the migratory problem and a proposal to reform the Spanish Constitution to partially prohibit appraisals.