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As President of the Government, Suarez was one of the key figures of the Spanish Transition, the process through which the dictatorial regime of Francisco Franco and Spain was left behind, was constituted a social and democratic State of law.
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In 1975 he was appointed Minister of Commerce in the first Government of the Monarchy, which was chaired by Arias Navarro and of which ministers Adolfo Suárez and Manuel Fraga, among others, formed part.
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After the victory obtained by the PSOE in the elections of October 28, 1982, in which Felipe González won 48.11% of the votes and 202 deputies, this being the first absolute majority of a party in democracy in Spain.
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On May 5, José María Aznar took office before the King and Queen of Spain as the fourth President of the Government after the Transition.
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On April 16, 2004 the President of the Government, José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero, promised his position before S.M. the King, Juan Carlos I.
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On December 20, 2011, Mariano Rajoy was inaugurated as president of the Government and on the 21st he was sworn in before the king. On the 30th, as soon as it was constituted, the new cabinet -with Soraya Sáenz de Santamaría as vice president and spokesperson and with Luis de Guindos and Cristóbal Montoro.
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Felipe VI ordered the appointment of Sanchez as president of the Government by royal decree of June 1. Sanchez promised his position before the monarch the next day at the Palacio de la Zarzuela, in front of a copy of the Constitution.
