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Adolfo Suárez, UCD
He promoted the political association Unión Democrática del Pueblo Español (UDPE).
He ruled from July 1976 to February 1981. It is said that the first president of Spanish democracy after Franco's dictatorship was Adolfo Suárez. -
Leopoldo Calvo Sotelo, UCD
He participated in the creation of the Union of Democratic Center (UCD). After the resignation of Adolfo Suárez, he assumed the presidency of the Government. During his inauguration, Lieutenant Colonel Antonio Tejero attempted a coup attempt on February 23, 1981.
He ruled from February 1981 until December 1982. -
Felipe González, PSOE
He was part of the Executive Committee of the Spanish Socialist Workers Party (PSOE) and became its general secretary in 1974. In 1978 he was elected vice president of the Socialist International. The first victory in the elections of the PSOE took place with absolute majority in 1982, overwhelming results that would be repeated in 1986 and 1989. In 93. Felipe González is the president who has been in office the longest (13 years and 5 months). -
José María Aznar, PP
Very young, he joined Alianza Popular (AP), party of which he was secretary general in 1979. Between 1987 and 1989 he presided over the Junta de Castilla y León. Precisely, in '89, he was appointed national president of the Popular Party (PP) as part of an act of refoundation of the conservative party, succeeding Manuel Fraga. Finally, he achieved victory by leading the PP in the general elections of March 3, 1996. He governed from May 1996 to April 2004. -
José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero, PSOE
He joined the PSOE in 1979, and since 1982 held positions of responsibility. He was deputy in the Congress from 1986, and from 1996, spokesman of the PSOE in the Commission of Public Administrations of the House of Representatives.
Zapatero developed a progressive program with notable social actions, such as the legalization of homosexual marriage. He governed from April 2004 to December 2011. -
Mariano Rajoy, PP
Before being president of the Government, he was Minister of Public Administration (1996-1999) and Minister of Education and Culture (1999-2000).
Upon reaching the Government, obtaining absolute majority, its economic policy focused on readjustments aimed at solving the economic crisis. He governed from December 2011 to June 2018. -
Pedro Sánchez, PSOE
In Spain, he was a councilor in Madrid City Council between 2004 and 2009 and a deputy for the Madrid district from 2009 to 2011 and again from 2013 to 2016. He became president with the support of a sufficient number of parliamentarians in a motion of no confidence against the Government of Mariano Rajoy in June 2018. This would be the first motion of censure that goes forward in the history of democracy. He is the president who is currently governing.
