Marianos rajoy brey biography for kids

Mariano Rajoy Brey (born March ), Spanish politician, is the leader of the opposition and of the conservative People's Party, (PP). Rajoy led his party at the Spanish general election on March 14, which was won by the opposition Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE).

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Rajoy was born in Santiago de Compostela, in Galicia in north-western Spain, a traditionally conservative region. He holds a degree in law from the University of Santiago de Compostela and worked as a property registrar. He started his political career in Galicia in , as a member of the right-wing Alianza Popular ("People's Alliance", AP) party in the Galician regional government.

A long-time collaborator of José María Aznar, he moved into national politics when Aznar became Prime Minister in , serving as Minister of Education and Culture with the first Aznar administration.

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He managed the successful People's Party campaign in the elections. In February he added the Interior Ministry to his duties.

On 30 August, after Aznar announced that he would retire at the elections, the People's Party elected Rajoy as its new leader. His record as Interior Minister enabled him to run as a "law and order" candidate promising to be tough on Basque terrorism.

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This issue assumed new importance in the general elections in the wake of the terrorist attacks in Madrid on March 11, which were initially blamed on the Basque terrorist organisation ETA (but were later proven to be the work of Al-Qaida).

Aznar's government and Party leaders insisted on accusing ETA of the attacks, and on March 13, Rajoy claimed to be convinced of their responsibility for these crimes.

There were accusations of manipulation of the information regarding these attacks.

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