José Luis Corcuera (born 1944) is a Spanish politician who served as interior minister of Spain from 1988 to 1993.
José Luis Corcuera | |
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Minister of Interior | |
In office 12 July 1988 – 23 November 1993 | |
Prime Minister | Felipe González |
Preceded by | José Barrionuevo |
Succeeded by | Antoni Asunción Hernández |
Personal details | |
Born | 1944 (age 79–80) |
Nationality | Spanish |
Early life
editCorcuera hails from a Basque family.[1] He was born in 1944 and was raised in Bilbao.[2] He left school at 14.[2]
Career
editCorcuera headed the General Workers Union, a socialist trade union.[2][3] He was a member of the Spanish Congress of Deputies,[4] representing Biscay Province from 1982 to 1986 and Burgos Province from 1993 to 1994. He was appointed interior minister to the cabinet led by Prime Minister Felipe González in a reshuffle on 12 July 1988, replacing José Barrionuevo in the post.[1][5] He retained his post in a cabinet reshuffle of July 1993.[6] However, on 23 November 1993 he resigned from office due to the fact that the bill he developed, the Corcuera law, was declared unlawful.[7] Antoni Asunción replaced him as interior minister. Corcuera also resigned from his parliamentary seat.[4]
Controversy
editIn September 2001, Corcuera and José Barrionuevo were tried for the misuse of the public funds which occurred in 1993.[8][9] Both were found innocent of embezzlement charges in January 2002.[10]
In popular culture
editIn a detective novel entitled Sabotaje olímpico (Spanish: Olympic Sabotage) written by Manuel Vázquez Montalbán there are frequent references to Corcuera as the interior minister in a critical manner.[11]
References
edit- ^ a b Robert P. Clark (1990). Negotiating with ETA: Obstacles to Peace in the Basque Country, 1975-1988. Reno, NV: University of Nevada Press. p. 220. ISBN 978-0-87417-162-4.
- ^ a b c Tom Burns (9 July 1988). "Cabinet Reshuffle in Madrid Gives Women 2 Posts". The Washington Post. Archived from the original on 5 November 2013. Retrieved 19 October 2013.
- ^ Paul Delaney (19 July 1988). "Gonzalez Fights Unrest with Cabinet Shuffle". The New York Times. Retrieved 20 October 2013.
- ^ a b Phil Davison (6 May 1994). "Gonzalez stands firm as ministers resign". The Independent. Madrid. Retrieved 19 October 2013.
- ^ Paddy Woodworth (2001). Dirty War, Clean Hands: ETA, the GAL and Spanish Democracy. Cork, Ireland: Cork University Press. p. 66. ISBN 978-1-85918-276-5.
- ^ Phil Davison (14 July 1993). "Gonzalez brings independents into Spain's cabinet: The left wing is shut out of new government". The Independent. Madrid. Retrieved 19 October 2013.
- ^ Víctor Pérez Díaz (1999). Spain at the Crossroads: Civil Society, Politics, and the Rule of Law. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press. p. 130. ISBN 978-0-674-00052-0.
- ^ Fernando Jiménez (1998). "Political scandals and political responsibility in democratic Spain". West European Politics. 21 (4): 97. doi:10.1080/01402389808425272.
- ^ Giles Tremlett (20 September 2001). "Spanish ex-ministers on trial for hush fund scandal". The Guardian. Madrid. Retrieved 19 October 2013.
- ^ Ciaran Giles (22 January 2002). "Court absolves former Socialist security ministers of embezzlement charges, finds five officials guilty". AP Worldstream. Archived from the original on 5 November 2013. Retrieved 19 October 2013.
- ^ Carlos van Tongeren (2016). "Confronting Conspiracies in Manuel Vázquez Montalbán's Late Carvalho Novels". Neophilologus. 100 (3): 375–379. doi:10.1007/s11061-015-9467-z. hdl:2066/156295. S2CID 254873471.
External links
edit- Media related to José Luis Corcuera at Wikimedia Commons