Pedro Sánchez Pérez’s Spain, under a process of resilience

  Magazine: Estilo de Vida Latin America by Claudia M. Gómez – Photo: Pedro Sánchez Pérez’s

August 15/2022: “Manual de Resistencia” is the name of Pedro Sánchez Pérez’s first book, but also the first book published by a president of Spanish democracy during his term of office. In this manual, the author narrates – in the first person – his experiences and his professional journey to the office, as part of a personal process of resilience, which would not be understood without the strength of his convictions.

However, in 2018, after the success of the motion of censure against Mariano Rajoy, Sánchez was invested as the seventh president of Spain, in its democratic stage, after the approval of the 1978 Constitution.

In the four years of his government, measures stand out, such as the proposal for the exhumation of the tomb of the dictator Francisco Franco from the Valley of the Fallen, the search for a European approach with human rights for the migratory problem and the reform of the Spanish Constitution to partially prohibit the parliamentary immunity.

He is currently the secretary general of the Spanish Socialist Workers’ Party (PSOE), which he joined in 1993. But he has also been secretary general of the PSOE, leader of the opposition and candidate for the Presidency of the Government between 2014 and 2016 and, previously, he was a member of Congress for the constituency of Madrid and a council in the City Council of Madrid.

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Sánchez is the eldest of two brothers in a well-to-do family. His father, an economist, has worked in the financial sector and has managed several companies. He was also general director of INAEM and held positions of responsibility in the Ministry of Agriculture. His mother has been a Social Security official and has also worked as a lawyer.

In 1995 he graduated in Economics and Business Administration from the Real Centro Universitario María Cristina de El Escorial; he subsequently completed two postgraduate studies and, in 2012, he completed his PhD in Economics at the University Camilo José Cela, where he also worked as a professor of Economics. It was in the Madrid City Council where he began his political career as a councilman, and in September 2009 he became a member of the Congress of Deputies in the IX legislature of the Cortes Generales.

However, prior to his time as a university professor, he worked as an advisor in the European Parliament and was a member of the cabinet of the United Nations High Representative in Bosnia-Herzegovina. In 2018, following the success of the motion of censure against Mariano Rajoy, Sánchez was sworn in as President of the Government.

He is currently married and the father of two daughters. Among his most outstanding awards are: the Grand Collar of the Order of the Condor of the Andes, the Salvador Allende Medal, received in 2018, and the Grand Cross of the Order of the Sun of Peru, in 2019.