José Manuel Rodríguez Uribes (born 9 October 1968) is a Spanish

philosopher of law Philosophy of law is a branch of philosophy that examines the nature of law and law's relationship to other systems of norms, especially ethics and political philosophy. It asks questions like "What is law?", "What are the criteria for legal Vali ...

and politician of the

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(PSOE) who has been serving as Minister of Culture and Sport in the

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Pedro Sánchez Pedro Sánchez Pérez-Castejón (; born 29 February 1972) is a Spanish politician who has been Prime Minister of Spain since June 2018. He has also been Secretary-General of the Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE) since June 2017, having pr ...

since 2020. He is also a member of the PSOE's federal executive board. Rodríguez Uribes was a member of the

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from 2019 to 2020. He served as Government Delegate in the Community of Madrid between 2018 and 2019.

Early life and education

Born in

Valencia Valencia ( va, València) is the capital of the autonomous community of Valencia and the third-most populated municipality in Spain, with 791,413 inhabitants. It is also the capital of the province of the same name. The wider urban area al ...

on 9 October 1968, Rodríguez Uribes earned a

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in law at the

University of Valencia The University of Valencia ( ca-valencia, Universitat de València ; also known as UV) is a public research university located in the city of Valencia, Spain. It is one of the oldest surviving universities in Spain, and the oldest in the Vale ...

(UV); he later obtained a PhD in the same field at the

Charles III University of Madrid University Charles III of Madrid ( es, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid) (UC3M) is a public university in the Community of Madrid, Spain. Established in 1989, UC3M is an institution with a distinctly international profile. It offers a broad rang ...

(UC3M), reading a dissertation in 1998 titled ''Los discursos democrático y liberal sobre la opinión pública (dos modelos, Rousseau y Constant)'' and supervised by Gregorio Peces Barba.

Early career

Rodríguez Uribes was appointed Director General in Support of the Victims of Terrorism in September 2006. He held the post until December 2011, when

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became Prime Minister. Rodríguez Uribes has worked as tenured professor both at the UV and the UC3M.

Political career

Rodríguez Uribes joined the Federal Executive Board of the

(PSOE) led by

in June 2017, tasked in the area of Laicity. Following the investiture of Sánchez as Prime Minister in June 2018, Rodríguez Uribes was chosen to replace Concepción Dancausa at the helm of the Government Delegation in the Community of Madrid. His appointment was sanctioned through an 18 June

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, swearing in the post on 25 June. Rodríguez Uribes remained in office until April 2019 as he was included then in the 3rd place of the PSOE list for the

2019 Madrilenian regional election The 2019 Madrilenian regional election was held on Sunday, 26 May 2019, to elect the 11th Assembly of the Community of Madrid. All 132 seats in the Assembly were up for election. The election was held simultaneously with regional elections in ele ...

led by

Ángel Gabilondo Ángel Gabilondo Pujol (born 1 March 1949) is a Spanish university professor, currently serving as the 6th Ombudsman of Spain. Between 2009 and 2011, he was Minister of Education in José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero's Cabinet. In June 2011, h ...

. As an elected member of the 11th term of the regional legislature, Rodríguez Uribes became the attached spokesperson of the Socialist Parliamentary Group.

Minister of Culture and Sport, 2020–present

Appointed Minister of Culture and Sport of the

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, Rodríguez Uribes assumed office on 13 January 2020. Amid the

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, Rodríguez Uribes led efforts to re-open the country's public life by announcing in May 2021 that a maximum of 5,000 spectators would be able to attend soccer games in regions with fewer than 50 COVID-19 cases per 100,000 inhabitants.Spain to allow spectators back to matches
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'', May 12, 2021.

Works

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References

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