Jesús Posada Moreno (born 4 April 1945) is the former

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, the lower house of the Spanish

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. He has worked as a

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and economist. From 1979 to 1981 he served as civil governor of the

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. He went on to represent

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in the regional parliament of

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from 1983. From 1989 to 1991 he was president of the regional government.Posada presidirá el Congreso y García-Escudero el Senado - Público.es
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in the

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since the election of the fifth legislature on 29 June 1993. He succeeded

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. In the government of

José María Aznar José María Alfredo Aznar López (; born 25 February 1953) is a Spanish politician who was the prime minister of Spain from 1996 to 2004. He led the People's Party (Spain), People's Party (PP), the dominant centre-right political party in Spai ...

, he was Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food from 1999 to 2000, and Minister of Public Administration from 2000 to 2002. On 13 December 2011 he was elected President of the Congress of Deputies for the tenth legislature, with 202 of a possible 350 votes.

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