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Luis Peral Guerra

Luis Peral Guerra

Spanish politician

Luis Peral Guerra (born 1950) is a Spanish Christian-Democrat[1][2] politician. A former senator, city councillor of Madrid and member of the Assembly of Madrid, he served as Minister of Labor and Minister of Education of the Government of the Community of Madrid.

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Biography

Born on 5 November 1950 in Madrid,[3] son of real estate developer and architect Luis Peral Buesa and Mariela Guerra Zunzunegui; he is the grandson of General Luis Peral Sáez, aide-de-camp of Francisco Franco[4][5] and of Juan Bautista Guerra García, lawyer and Member of Parliament for Palencia from the CEDA, murdered at the Monte Saja (Cantabria) in October 1936, during the Civil War.[6]

PhD in History, with International Mention, from Universidad CEU-San Pablo, Madrid. He was awarded a "Summa cum laude" for his thesis "Economic Policies of the Second Spanish Republic. Spain in the Great Depression". During the PhD program he has completed stays at the London School of Economics and at the University of Edinburgh.[7]

He obtained before Master (Licenciado) degrees in Economics and in Law [8] from Universidad Complutense de Madrid.

A member of the City Council of Madrid between 1979 and 1987,[9] he had been elected for the first time in the 1979 municipal election as candidate of the Union of the Democratic Centre (UCD); he renovated his seat for a second term in the 1983 election, this time as candidate of the electoral coalition between People's Alliance, the People's Democratic Party and the Liberal Union (AP-PDP-UL).

From June 1980 to November 1981 he was the Chief of the Technical Staff of the MInister of Transports, Tourism and Communications, José Luis Álvarez.

He married María Ferré y de la Peña in 1992 at the chapel of the Colegio de Nuestra Señora del Pilar.[4]

Following the 1995 accession of the People's Party (PP) to the Government of the Community of Madrid with 1995 Alberto Ruiz-Gallardón as regional president, Peral was appointed Vice-Minister of Public Works, Urbanism and Transports,[10] becoming the right-hand of Luis Eduardo Cortés.[11] From 1995 to 2001 the extension of Madrid underground Metro was doubled with 114 new kilometers.[12] 101.000 new state-subsidized apartments were built,[13] 12.663 of them by the Instituto de la Vivienda de Madrid (IVIMA)[14] and 2.700 families that lived in shanty dwellings were housed in apartments by the Instituto de Realojamiento e Integración Social (IRIS).[15] New roads were built, including M.45 Motorway, where the shadow toll system was employed.[16]

Peral in 2016 during the gala for the HazteOír Awards.

He ran as the 22nd candidate in the PP list for the 1999 regional election in Madrid,[17] becoming a member of the regional legislature for the first time;[18][3] he renovated the seat in the next five terms of the regional legislature.[3]

In the context of a cabinet reshuffle that took place in September 2001 in which the number of regional government ministries increased from 9 to 11, Peral was appointed as the new Minister of Labor.[11] While he headed the Labour Department occupational training was promoted[19][20] as well as jobs for disabled persons, through the Regional Employment Service,[21][22] as well as job safety with the negotiation with trade unions and employers of the first Regional Plan for the Prevention of Job Hazards.[23]

Once the government of Esperanza Aguirre started, Peral became Minister of Education. He was the only minister from the Ruiz-Gallardón era, remaining in the cabinet after the transition of power in 2003.[24] While he headed the Education Department 165 state owned educational centers were built (72 infant schools, 75 primary schools and 18 secondary schools),[25][26] there were 53.000 new infant schools places for children from 0 to 3 years,[27] the Spanish-English Bilingual Program was developed,[28][29][30] as well as the new Priority State Schools Plan.[31][32][33] School grants for meals and textbooks were very much increased.[34][35] In March 2005 the Education Department and 19 entities from the educational community signed the Agreement for the Improvement of the Educational Quality 2005-2008,[36][37] with a budget of 1.600 million euros. In October of the same year took place the signing of the Financing Plan for Madrid Region Public Universities 2006-2010[38] and in December 2006 the Investment Plan 2007-2011 for those universities was signed.

During the Aguirre Government, in his capacity as regional minister of Education, he chaired the board of trustees of the Cardenal Cisneros Foundation (owner of the Centro de Enseñanza Superior Cardenal Cisneros).[39]

Between 2007 and 2015, during the 8th, 9th and 10th terms of the Cortes Generales, Peral served as Senator, designated by the regional legislature.[40] Spokesman of the Partido Popular (PP) for Interior (2008-2011) and Education (2011-2015), he took part representing the PP in the Traffic Law modification in 2009,[41] in the 2010 Asylum Law and in the 2013 Law for the Improvement of Quality in Education (LOMCE).[42][43][44] He promoted amendments in the modifications of the Penal Code in 2010 and 2015 (especially in the articles related with human trafficking and sexual crimes against minors), in the 2009 Immigration Law and in the 2010 Abortion Law. During the X Legislature, Luis Peral made 15 parliamentary questions in the Senate Plenary sessions and 138 in the Senate Committees and promoted 3 Motions in Plenary sessions and 4 in Committees,[45] including a Motion about support to the Family,[46] a Motion for the dissolution of city councils governed by the political arm of ETA terrorist group, according to the Political Parties Law[47][48]  and a Motion about Human Rights Violations in Central Africa.[49][50]

A member of the sector of the PP opposed to abortion and surrogacy,[51] during his mandate as Minister of Education (2003–2007) the region delayed the implementation of the subject of Educación para la Ciudadanía promoted by the national government of José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero.[9][lower-alpha 1] Peral broke the party discipline in July 2016 when he deliberately missed the voting for the Law against the LGTB-Phobia promoted by the PP government presided by Cristina Cifuentes, after his request for a separate voting for 6 of the 81 articles of that law was rejected by the PP parliamentary group.[54][55] He resigned his seat as member of the Assembly in December 2016 alleging "personal reasons", and also announced the end of his political activity.[56][57]

Notes

  1. He also personally awarded the Ultra-Conservative lobby HazteOir in 2004.[52] He claimed the decision had been taken by a jury.[53]

References

  1. [1]
    ABC, 30 March 1983
  2. [2]
    "El PDP reunirá en Madrid a la internacional democristiana". El País. 31 May 1985
  3. [3]
    "Ilmo. Sr. D. Luis. Peral Guerra". Assembly of Madrid. Archived from the original on 20 January 2018. Retrieved 27 January 2019.
  4. [4]
    "Enlace Peral Guerra-Ferré de la Peña". ABC. Madrid: 43. 20 March 1992.
  5. [5]
    "Enlace Peral-Guerra". ABC: 43. 16 November 1949.
  6. [6]
    Octavio Ruiz-Manjón, Los diputados de la Segunda República, Congreso de los Diputados, p. 198 (2022)
  7. [7]
    ABC, 23-3-2021, p.55
  8. [8]
    País, Ediciones El (2003-11-22). «Luis Peral Guerra». El País. ISSN 1134-6582. Consultado el 2020-01-28
  9. [9]
    Muñoz Ramírez 2016, p. 313-314.
  10. [10]
    Muñoz Ramírez 2016, p. 314.
  11. [11]
    "Gallardón prescinde de Villapalos y forma un Gobierno más técnico para las elecciones de 2003". ABC. Madrid: 4–5. 21 September 2001.
  12. [12]
     ^ "Se ha ampliado el Metro de Madrid en 114 Km".El Mundo, 23 April 2003, M2, p.3
  13. [13]
    ^ Diario 16, 10 june 1999, p.36
  14. [14]
    ^ "El IVIMA construyó y entregó casi 8.000 viviendas en la región durante los últimos cuatro años. Ha comenzado 5.511 viviendas". ABC, 16 september 1998. p.13
  15. [15]
    ^ El País, 7 july 1999, p.6
  16. [16]
    ^ ABC, 25 september 1998, p.77
  17. [17]
    Junta Electoral Provincial de Madrid: "Elecciones a la Asamblea de Madrid 1999. Candidaturas proclamadas" (PDF). Boletín Oficial de la Comunidad de Madrid (116): 23–38. 18 May 1999. ISSN 1989-4791.
  18. [18]
    Junta Electoral Provincial de Madrid: "Acta de proclamación de los resultados de las elecciones a la Asamplea de Madrid convocadas por Decreto 6/1999, de 19 de abril, y celebradas el 13 de junio de 1999" (PDF). Boletín Oficial de la Comunidad de Madrid (154): 21–22. 1 July 1999. ISSN 1989-4791.
  19. [19]
      ^ El País,12 February 2002, p.6
  20. [20]
    ^ ABC,23 November 2002, p.40
  21. [21]
    ^ ABC, 23 December 2001, Madrid, p.6
  22. [22]
    ^ Cambio 16, 29 April 2003, p.105
  23. [23]
    ^ "Aprobado el plan que prevé reducir la alta tasa de siniestralidad laboral. El programa, con dos años de vigencia, tendrá un presupuesto de 11 millones de euros". El País 8 May 2002, p.7
  24. [24]
    Sánchez, Inmaculada. "Aguirre, nueva musa para Rajoy". El Siglo de Europa (580). Archived from the original on 20 January 2018. Retrieved 27 January 2019.
  25. [25]
    ^ La Razón, 20 July 2006, p.47
  26. [26]
    ^ Magisterio, 22 February 2012, p.8
  27. [27]
    ^ Escuela, 22 February 2007, p.24
  28. [28]
    ^ Magisterio, 24 January 2007, p.7
  29. [29]
    ^ Escuela, 23 February 2006, p.20
  30. [30]
    ^ "Uno de cada cinco alumnos de Primaria estudiará en un Centro Bilingüe". ABC, 29 January 2007, p.46
  31. [31]
    ^ El Mundo, 7 August 2006, Madrid, p.2
  32. [32]
    ^ Escuela, 23 February 2006, pp.20-21
  33. [33]
    ^ Magisterio, 24 January 2007, p.7
  34. [34]
    ^ ABC, 3 January 2006, p.35
  35. [35]
    ^ ABC, 9 July 2006, p.53
  36. [36]
     ^ "Aguirre firma, junto a 16 organizaciones el acuerdo para la mejora del sistema educativo".Escuela, 17 March 2005, p.12
  37. [37]
    ^ Magisterio, 23 May 2007, p.11
  38. [38]
     ^ ABC, 29 January 2007, p.47
  39. [39]
    Ejerique, Raquel; Escolar, Ignacio (16 May 2018). "El gobierno de Esperanza Aguirre controlaba la universidad privada donde Pablo Casado aprobó media carrera en 4 meses". Eldiario.es.
  40. [40]
    "Peral Guerra, Luis. VIII Legislatura". Senate of Spain.
  41. [41]
     ^ Diario de Sesiones del Senado, Pleno 21 October 2009, pp.2711 and following ones
  42. [42]
    ^ Diario de Sesiones del Senado, Pleno 20 November 2013, pp.7848 and following ones
  43. [43]
    ^ Magisterio, 4 December 2013, p.9
  44. [44]
    ^ El Mundo, 20 December 2013, p.12
  45. [45]
       ^http://www.senado.es/web/composicionorganizacion/senadores/composicionsenado/fichasenador/index.doc?id1=13365&legis=9&id2=i
  46. [46]
    ^ Diario de Sesiones del Senado, Pleno 1 October 2010, p.572
  47. [47]
       ^ Diario de Sesiones del Senado, Pleno 17 December 2008, p.1128
  48. [48]
    ^ El País, 18 December 2008
  49. [49]
    ^ Diario de Sesiones del Senado, Pleno 24 April 2013, p.5075
  50. [50]
    ^ EFE, 24 April 2013
  51. [51]
    Casqueiro, Javier (25 January 2017). "La dirección del PP teme un debate sobre el aborto y la maternidad subrogada en el próximo congreso". El País.
  52. [52]
    Ponce de León, Rodrigo (2 March 2017). "Esperanza Aguirre financió a HazteOir con dinero de la Agencia de Cooperación e Inmigración". Eldiario.es.
  53. [53]
    "El Gobierno de Aguirre premia a una página que denuncia a UNICEF por abortista". El País. 15 October 2004.
  54. [54]
    qveremos.com. 31-10-2018
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    "Luis Peral renuncia a su acta de diputado del PP en la Asamblea de Madrid". El Mundo. 26 December 2016.
  56. [56]
    "Luis Peral renuncia a su acta de diputado del PP en la Asamblea de Madrid". Telemadrid. 26 December 2016. {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
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    "El diputado popular Luis Peral deja su escaño en la Asamblea de Madrid". El País. 28 December 2016.

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