Miguel Ángel Martínez

Miguel Ángel Martínez   ( politician)
Born	30 January 1940
Nationality	Spanish
Party	Spanish Socialist Workers' Party
Wrote a working paper for the discussion on The Soviet Union, The West And The Third World. A Case Study: Central America for the 1984 Bilderberg  President of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe In office 1992 - 1995  Member of the European Parliament In office 13 June 1999 - 1 July 2014 Succeeded by Brando Benifei, Anneliese Dodds, Andrzej Duda, Johannes Jansen, Kaja Kallas, Eva Maydell, Esteban Gonzáles Pons, Viviane Reding, Elly Schlein, Barbara Spinelli, Antonio Tajani, Antonio Tajani  Member of the Cortes In office 1977 - 1999

Miguel Ángel Martínez Martínez is a Spanish politician who wrote a working paper for the discussion on The Soviet Union, The West And The Third World. A Case Study: Central America for the 1984 Bilderberg.. A member of the Social Democratic PSOE and a Member of the European Parliament, he was active in numerous international socialist organizations, including the (anti-communist) International Federation of Free Trade Unions, as well as in interparliamentary bodies.

Education

Martínez studied in Madrid, Toulouse and Vienna and at an early age made a career in the international socialist organizations, whose activity in Spain at that time was still banned by the Franco government. In 1964 he became deputy general secretary of the International Union of Socialist Youth, in 1966 he became its deputy chairman and general secretary of the International Falcon Movement. In 1973 he became the representative for Trade Union Training of the International Federation of Free Trade Unions. He lived and worked in an Israeli Kibbutz when young.

Political career

After the end of the Franco dictatorship and the transition to democracy, Martínez was elected to the Spanish Parliament in the first free elections in 1977 for the PSOE in the province of Ciudad Real, of which he was a member until 1999. In 1980 he became a member of the executive committee of the PSOE-affiliated trade union UGT in the province of Ciudad Real, a year later he became PSOE General Secretary in the Castile-La Mancha region. In 1987 he was finally elected to the Spain-wide party board of the PSOE.

He was positive to the 1979 toppling of the Nicaraguan dictator Somoza by the Sandinistas.

In addition, Martínez continued to be internationally active and headed various interparliamentary bodies: from 1983 to 1992 he was Vice-president and then 1992-96 President of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe, and vice-president of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Western European Union from 1986 to 1996. From September 16, 1997 to July 15, 1999, he was the chairman of the Interparliamentary Union.

In the 1999 European Elections, Martínez was elected to the European Parliament for the first time. He has been Vice-President of the ACP-EU Joint Parliamentary Assembly since 2001. Since the 2009 European Elections, he has also been a member of the Delegation for Relations with the Pan-African Parliament, the Committee on Agriculture and Rural Development and the Committee on Petitions, as well as Deputy Speaker of the Parliament.

He has protested against the US blockade of Cuba.

 

Event Participated in

Event	Start	End	Location(s)	Description
Bilderberg/1984	11 May 1984	13 May 1984	Sweden Saltsjöbaden	The 32nd Bilderberg, held in Sweden

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