Mariano Rajoy Brey
Mariano Rajoy Brey is a Spanish politician of the Popular Party, sixth president of the Government of Spain after the Transition between 2011 and 2018. He currently works as a commercial registrar.
Rajoy was born in Santiago de Compostela and belongs to a family of jurists. He has a Law Degree from the University of Santiago de Compostela. At the age of 23, he passed the examinations for the Corps of aspiring property and commercial registrars of Spain, thus becoming the youngest registrar in Spain to date. When he was a member of Alianza Popular, his first political office was at the Parliament of Galicia in 1981. He has held numerous positions since then, both in Galicia and in the two governments of José María Aznar. He has been Minister and Vice-president of the Government five times between 2000 and 2003. In 2003 he was proposed by Aznar as his successor at the head of the Popular Party, a position to which he was elected by the party in September of that same year. He was the leader of the parliamentary opposition during the two terms (2004-2008 and 2008-2011) of the Socialist Government of José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero.
