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Alfonso Guerra González (born 31 May 1940) is a Spanish politician. A leading member of the
Spanish Socialist Workers' Party The Spanish Socialist Workers' Party ( , PSOE ) is a Social democracy, social democratic Updated as required.The PSOE is described as a social-democratic party by numerous sources: * * * * List of political parties in Spain, political party ...
(PSOE), he served as vice president of the government (''vicepresidente del Gobierno'', i.e. equivalent to deputy
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) of Spain from 1982 to 1991 under the premiership of
Felipe González Felipe González Márquez (; born 5 March 1942) is a retired Spanish politician who was Prime Minister of Spain from 1982 to 1996 and leader of the Spanish Socialist Workers' Party from 1974 to 1997. He is the longest-serving democratically- ...
. He represented Seville province in the
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from 1977 to 2015, and was the longest-serving deputy at the time of his departure. In 1988, Guerra received an
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from the Universidad Nacional Federico Villarreal in
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,
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, and he was awarded the ''Medaglia D'oro'' in 1984 by the
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. Guerra was an extremely controversial politician, noted for his acid discourse against his opponents, which was criticised as
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by his political adversaries. He was forced to quit his position as vice-president after a financial scandal involving his brother Juan Guerra. On 5 November 2014, Guerra announced that he would be resigning from congress at the end of the parliamentary session in December 2014. At the time of his resignation announcement, he was the longest serving member of congress.El diputado más veterano en el Congreso
La Provincia: diario de Las Palmas, 5 November 2014, accessed 19 November 2014


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