Manuel de la Rocha Rubí (born 1947) is a Spanish politician of the Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE). A member of the 1st and 2nd terms of the Assembly of Madrid as well as of the 5th, 9th and 10th Congress of Deputies, he has served as Mayor of Fuenlabrada from 1979 to 1983 and as Minister of Education and Youth of the Community of Madrid from 1983 to 1985.
Manuel de la Rocha | |
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.jpg) In 2015 | |
| Mayor of Fuenlabrada | |
| In office 19 April 1979 – 1983 | |
| Minister of Education and Youth of the Community of Madrid | |
| In office 1983 – September 1985 | |
| Member of the Assembly of Madrid | |
| In office 1983–1991 | |
| Member of the Congress of Deputies | |
| In office 22 June 1993 – 9 January 1996 | |
| Constituency | Madrid |
| In office 24 March 2008 – 27 September 2011 | |
| Constituency | Madrid |
| In office 8 July 2014 – 27 October 2015 | |
| Constituency | Madrid |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 18 December 1947 Madrid |
| Citizenship | Spanish |
| Political party | PSOE (since 1972) |
| Children | Manuel de la Rocha Vázquez[1] |
| Occupation | Politician, lawyer, trade unionist, professor |
Biography
editBorn on 18 December 1947 in Madrid, he graduated in Law.[2] Linked to Christian movements and organizations,[3] he affiliated to the then clandestine PSOE and Unión General de Trabajadores (UGT) in 1972.[4]
A professor of law in the Complutense University of Madrid, he left the post to run in the 1979 municipal election in Fuenlabrada. Following the PSOE victory in the election, he became mayor of the municipality on 19 April 1983. He worked part-time as lawyer to maintain income.[5] He simultaneously ran as candidate both in the 1983 regional election and in the 1983 Fuenlabrada municipal election, successfully becoming member of the 1st Assembly of Madrid.[6] Invested again as Mayor of Fuenlabrada, soon after being sworn to office for a second spell he handed in his resignation in order to become Minister of Education and Youth of the first government of the community of Madrid, presided by Joaquín Leguina.[7] He renounced as regional minister in September 1985, criticising the regional and economic policy of the Central Government, and was replaced by Jaime Lissavetzky.[8]
Running 7th in the PSOE for the 1987 Madrilenian regional election, he renovated his seat in the regional legislature.[9][10] Following the 1993 general election he became a member of the Congress of Deputies for its 5th term (1993–1996).[11]
A leading figure of the critic faction Izquierda Socialista,[12][13] he returned to Congress in March 2008,[14] following the 2008 Spanish general election. He was one of the members (along José Antonio Pérez Tapias and Juan Antonio Barrio de Penagos) of the Socialist Parliamentary Group in the Congress who decided not to take part in the September 2011 voting for the reform of the Spanish Constitution struck by the PSOE and the People's Party that sought to include (and successfully did so) the principle of "budgetary stability" in the Article 135 of the text.[15]
He ran again as candidate to the lower house in the November 2011 general election, although he was not elected legislator then. Nonetheless, de la Rocha became later a member of the 10th Congress of Deputies in July 2014, replacing the vacant seat of Elena Valenciano, elected to the European Parliament.[12]
De la Rocha, who was serving as secretary in the board of trustees of the Fundación Alternativas, announced his intentions to run in the PSOE primaries to select the party challenger to the post of Mayor of Madrid in October 2018.[16]
Decorations
editReferences
edit- ^ Lament, Juanma (15 June 2018). "Manuel de la Rocha será el responsable de la política económica en Moncloa". Expansión.
- ^ "X. Legislatura. Rocha Rubí, Manuel de la". Congress of Deputies.
- ^ Berzal de la Rosa, Enrique (2007). "Católicos en la lucha antifranquista. Militancia sindical y política" (PDF). Historia del Presente. 10 (2): 21. ISSN 1579-8135.
- ^ Díez, Anabel (27 December 2007). "Manuel de la Rocha". El País.
- ^ "¿Que fue de aquellos alcaldes de 1979?". El País. 21 May 1990.
- ^ "Ilmo. Sr. D. Manuel de la Rocha Rubí". Assembly of Madrid. Archived from the original on 4 February 2019. Retrieved 3 February 2019.
- ^ García, Pilar (9 October 2018). "Manuel de la Rocha se postula como candidato a las primarias del PSOE al Ayuntamiento de Madrid". Cadena Ser.
{{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires|journal=(help) - ^ Manzano, Andrés (19 September 1985). "Manuel de la Rocha critica la política económica y autonómica del Gobierno central". El País.
- ^ Junta Electoral Provincial de Madrid: "Elecciones a la Asamblea de Madrid 1987. Candidaturas proclamadas" (PDF). Boletín Oficial de la Comunidad de Madrid (111): 14–20. 12 May 1987.
- ^ Junta Electoral Provincial de Madrid: "Resultados electorales" (PDF). Boletín Oficial de la Comunidad de Madrid (150): 8–9. 26 June 1987. ISSN 1889-4410.
- ^ "V Legislatura (1993–1996). Rocha Rubí, Manuel de la". Congress of Deputies.
{{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires|journal=(help) - ^ a b Moraga, Carmen (9 July 2014). "Un clásico de Izquierda Socialista vuelve al escaño". eldiario.es.
- ^ Montagut, Eduardo (29 December 2018). "La necesidad de un candidato: Manuel de la Rocha". Nueva Tribuna.
- ^ "IX Legislatura (2008–2011). Rocha Rubí, Manuel de la". Congress of Deputies.
- ^ Montero, Sara (23 August 2018). "7 años del 135: cuando PSOE y PP sacrificaron el pacto constitucional para blindar los mercados". Cuarto Poder.
- ^ Boiza, Ferran (9 October 2018). "Manuel De la Rocha Rubí se presentará a las primarias del PSOE a la Alcaldía de Madrid". El Mundo.
- ^ Ministerio de Justicia e Interior: "Real Decreto 486/1996, de 8 de marzo, por el que se concede la Gran cruz de la Orden de San Raimundo de Peñafort a don Manuel de la Rocha Rubí" (PDF). Boletín Oficial del Estado (80): 12443. 2 April 1996. ISSN 0212-033X.