Alejandro Rojas-Marcos

Alejandro Rojas-Marcos de la Viesca (born 2 September 1940) is a Spanish former politician of the Andalusian Party (PA).

Biography

Rojas-Marcos was a member of the Congress of Deputies for Cádiz (1979–1982) and Seville (1989–1991).^[1] He was also in the Andalusian Parliament from 1994 to 1996.

In 1991, Rojas-Marcos was elected mayor of Seville after forming a pact with the People's Party led by Soledad Becerril. He remained as first deputy mayor when she succeeded him in 1995.^[2] He was mayor at the time of the Seville Expo '92. He dismissed Jesús Aguirre as director of the exposition in October 1991 for having accused him of a lack of cultural knowledge.^[3]

For the 2004 European Parliament election in Spain, Rojas-Marcos led the European Coalition, a coalition of regionalist and peripheral nationalist parties. The party lost its two seats and received roughly half a million fewer votes than it did in 1999. He put the blame on himself and the reduction of Spain's seats in the Parliament.^[4]

After a near total decline in its votes, Rojas-Marcos oversaw the PA's 17th congress in September 2015, in which the party was dissolved and he retired.^[5]

His younger brother Luis Rojas-Marcos [es] became a noted psychiatrist in the United States.^[6]

References

1. "Rojas Marcos de la Viesca, Alejandro" (in Spanish). Congress of Deputies. Retrieved 15 August 2021.
2. Navarro Antolín, Carlos (3 June 2018). ""Pido a los sevillanos una reflexión sobre los alcaldes que han tenido"" ["I ask the people of Seville to reflect on the mayors that they have had"]. Diario de Sevilla (in Spanish). Retrieved 15 August 2021.
3. Ordaz, Pablo (8 October 1991). "Rojas [sic] Marcos destituye al duque de Alba como comisario de Sevilla en la Expo por acusarlo de falta de cultura" [Rojas-Marcos dismisses the Duke of Alba as director of the Seville Expo for having accused him of a lack of culture]. El País (in Spanish). Retrieved 15 August 2021.
4. "Estrepitosa caída de Coalición Europea" [Meteoric fall of the European Coalition]. El Periódico de Aragón (in Spanish). 14 June 2004. Retrieved 15 August 2021.
5. Barroso, Maricruz (16 September 2015). "Rojas [sic] Marcos: "Nunca hubo raíces andalucistas en esta tierra"" [Rojas-Marcos: "There never were Andalusian nationalist roots in this land"] (in Spanish). Cadena SER. Retrieved 15 August 2021.
6. Guzmán, María José (5 January 2014). "El niño malo que buscaba su identidad" [The naughty boy who searched for his identity]. Diario de Sevilla (in Spanish). Retrieved 15 August 2021.