José María Aznar

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José María Aznar López (Spanish pronunciation: [xoˈse maˈɾi.a aθˈnaɾ ˈlopeθ] ; born 25 February 1953) is a Spanish politician who served as Prime Minister of Spain from 1996 to 2004. He led the People's Party (PP), the dominant centre-right political party in Spain. In his teens, he joined the Frente de Estudiantes Sindicalistas, a dissident Falangist student organisation. He studied law at the Complutense University of Madrid and first worked in the public sector as an Inspector of the Finances of the State (Spanish: Inspector de las Finanzas del Estado). He joined the People's Alliance, which was re-founded as the People's Party in 1989. He led the Junta of Castile and León from 1987 to 1989 and was Leader of the Opposition at the national level from 1989 to 1996. In 1995, he survived an assassination attempt from the Basque separatist group ETA. The People's Party, led by Aznar, won the most parliamentary seats at the 1996 general election, but he failed to obtain a majority in the Congress...

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