Mariano Rajoy

About Mariano Rajoy

Affiliated during the 1980s with the Spanish People's Alliance Party and from 1989 on with the People's Party, he took office as Prime Minister of Spain in 2011. Minister of the Interior and Minister of the Presidency were among his former government appointments.

Mariano Rajoy Brey is a Spanish politician who served as Prime Minister of Spain from 2011 to 2018, when a vote of no confidence overthrew his government. On June 5, 2018, he announced his resignation as the leader of the People's Party. He became leader of the People's Party in 2004 and Prime Minister in 2011 after the Popular Party's resounding victory in the general elections that year, he became the sixth president of the Spanish government. The party lost the majority in the 2015 general election, but after those elections ended in a stalemate, the second election in 2016 helped Rajoy win re-election as prime minister. Rajoy was a minister under the José María Aznar administration, held various leadership roles in various ministries from 1996 to 2003, and he was also deputy prime minister from 2000 to 2003. opposition from 2004 to 2011 under the José Luis government by Rodríguez Zapatero.

Parents	Mariano Rajoy Sobredo, Olga Brey López
Succeeded by	Pedro Sánchez
Preceded by	José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero
Spouse(s)	Elvira Fernández Balboa
Children	2
Monarch	Juan Carlos I, Felipe VI
Political party	Spanish National Union, People's Alliance, People's Party
Born	Mariano Rajoy Brey, March 27, 1955, Santiago de Compostela, Spain
Alma mater	University of Santiago de Compostela
Deputy	Soraya Sáenz de Santamaría

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Trivia

For the six years preceding his administration, bullfights had been banned from Spanish television due to their brutal nature. A bullfighting enthusiast, Rajoy lifted this ban.

Mariano Rajoy before fame

He became a registered Spanish civil servant after graduating from the University of Santiago de Compostela.

Achievement of Mariano Rajoy

Bullfights had been banned from Spanish television for six years prior to his presidency due to their brutality. Rajoy, a bullfighting fan, overturned the ban.

Salary 2020

Not known

Net Worth 2020

$1 Million

Mariano Rajoy family life

He and his wife, Elvira Fernandez Balboa, have two children in the years following their 1996 wedding.

Associations of Mariano Rajoy

From 2000 until 2003, he was Spain's Deputy Prime Minister under Prime Minister Jose Maria Aznar's administration.

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