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Ángel Gabilondo Pujol (born 1 March 1949) is a Spanish university professor, currently serving as the 6th Ombudsman of Spain.
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Ángel Gabilondo | |
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Ombudsman of Spain | |
Assumed office 18 November 2021 | |
Monarch | Felipe VI |
Deputy | Teresa Jiménez-Becerril |
Preceded by | Francisco Fernández Marugán (acting) |
Minister of Education | |
In office 7 April 2009 – 22 December 2011 | |
Prime Minister | José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero |
Preceded by | Mercedes Cabrera |
Succeeded by | José Ignacio Wert |
Member of the Assembly of Madrid | |
In office 10 June 2015 – 8 June 2021 | |
Personal details | |
Born | Ángel Gabilondo Pujol 1 March 1949 San Sebastián, Spain |
Political party | Independent (linked to PSOE) |
Alma mater | Autonomous University of Madrid |
Between 2009 and 2011, he was Minister of Education in José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero's Cabinet.[1]
In June 2011, he received the Medalla de Oro for the Universidad de Málaga.[2][3] On 30 December 2011 he received a condecoration for the Order of Charles III[4] and also the Orden de Alfonso X el Sabio on 26 December 2014.[5]
In 2015, he was named Spanish Socialist Workers' Party's candidate for the Community of Madrid 2015 election.[6][7] He returned to be a candidate for the 2016 election.[8][9] Suggested by Pedro Sánchez,[10] he was again the PSOE candidate for the 2019 election.[11]
In October 2018, he offered himself to be the president of Madrid, in order to succeed Ángel Garrido.[12]
In October 2021, after an agreement between major parties of the Cortes Generales, he was nominated to be the 6th Spanish Ombudsman.[13] The Cortes Generales Joint Committee on Relations with the Ombudsman ratified the nomination on 27 October 2021 and it sent the candidacy to the Plenary for a final voting.[14]
He is the brother of Spanish journalist Iñaki Gabilondo.
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