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José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero | |
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| Prime Minister of Spain | |
| In office 16 April 2004 – 21 December 2011 | |
| Monarch | Juan Carlos I |
| Deputy | María Teresa Fernández de la Vega Alfredo Pérez Rubalcaba Elena Salgado |
| Preceded by | José María Aznar |
| Succeeded by | Mariano Rajoy |
| Secretary-General of the Spanish Socialist Workers' Party | |
| In office 22 July 2000 – 4 February 2012 | |
| President | Manuel Chaves |
| Preceded by | Joaquín Almunia |
| Succeeded by | Alfredo Pérez Rubalcaba |
| Leader of the Opposition | |
| In office 22 July 2000 – 16 April 2004 | |
| Prime Minister | José María Aznar |
| Preceded by | Luis Martínez Noval |
| Succeeded by | Mariano Rajoy |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 4 August 1960 Valladolid, Spain |
| Political party | Spanish Socialist Workers' Party |
| Spouse | Sonsoles Espinosa (1990–present) |
| Children | Laura Alba |
| Alma mater | University of León |
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- ^ "The country's Left-leaning Prime Minister, a self-declared agnostic, became a bête noire of the Catholic Church during his first term in office by legalising same-sex marriage, introducing fast-track divorce and allowing embryonic stem-cell research." [1]
- ^ "And yet today’s Prime Minister Zapatero is a self-proclaimed agnostic, whose presidency of the EU makes no mention of his country’s evangelising mission but rather focuses on issues which the Spanish socialist Government claims as the preserve of a liberated secular society, such as gender equality in all its manifestations from gay rights to abortion." Pedalo, [2], Jimmy Burns archive article, March 6, 2012 (accessed July 14, 2014).