Luis Peral Guerra

Luis Peral Guerra (born 1950) is a Spanish Conservative politician. A former senator, city councillor of Madrid and member of the Assembly of Madrid, he served as Minister of Labor and Minister of Education of the Government of the Community of Madrid.

Luis Peral Guerra
In 2011
Senator
In office
28 June 2007 – 8 July 2015
Minister of Education of the Community of Madrid
In office
22 November 2003 – 20 June 2007
Preceded byCarlos Mayor Oreja
Succeeded byLucía Figar
Minister of Labour of the Community of Madrid
In office
September 2001 – 2003
Member of the Assembly of Madrid
In office
30 June 1999 – 9 January 2017
Madrid city councillor
In office
9 April 1979 – 30 June 1987
Personal details
Born (1950-11-05) 5 November 1950
Madrid
CitizenshipSpanish
Political partyUCD, PP
OccupationPolitician

Biography

Born on 5 November 1950 in Madrid,[1] son of real estate developer and architect Luis Peral Buesa and Mariela Guerra Zunzunegui; he is the grandson of General Luis Peral Sáez, aide-de-camp of Francisco Franco.[2][3][4]

He obtained Master (Licenciado) degrees in Economics and in Law [5] from Universidad Complutense de Madrid. He is currently enrolled at a PhD Program in History, with a thesis about "Economic Policies of the Spanish Second Republic", having completed stays at the London School of Economics and at the University of Edinburgh.

A member of the City Council of Madrid between 1979 and 1987,[6] he had been elected for the first time in the 1979 municipal election as candidate of the Union of the Democratic Centre (UCD); he renovated his seat for a second term in the 1983 election, this time as candidate of the electoral coalition between People's Alliance, the People's Democratic Party and the Liberal Union (AP-PDP-UL).

He married María Ferré y de la Peña in 1992 at the chapel of the Colegio de Nuestra Señora del Pilar.[2]

Following the 1995 accession of the People's Party (PP) to the Government of the Community of Madrid with 1995 Alberto Ruiz-Gallardón as regional president, Peral was appointed Vice-Minister of Public Works, Urbanism and Transports,[7] becoming the right-hand of Luis Eduardo Cortés.[8]

Peral in 2016 during the gala for the HazteOír Awards.

He ran as the 22nd candidate in the PP list for the 1999 regional election in Madrid,[9] becoming a member of the regional legislature for the first time;[10][1] he renovated the seat in the next five terms of the regional legislature.[1]

In the context of a cabinet reshuffle that took place in September 2001 in which the number of regional government ministries increased from 9 to 11, Peral was appointed as the new Minister of Labor.[8] Once the government of Esperanza Aguirre started, Peral became Minister of Education. He was the only minister from the Ruiz-Gallardón era, remaining in the cabinet after the transition of power in 2003.[11]

During the Aguirre Government, in his capacity as regional minister of Education, he chaired the board of trustees of the Cardenal Cisneros Foundation (owner of the Centro de Enseñanza Superior Cardenal Cisneros).[12]

Between 2007 and 2015, during the 8th, 9th and 10th terms of the Cortes Generales, Peral served as Senator, designated by the regional legislature.[13]

A member of the most conservative sector of the PP, opposed to abortion and surrogacy,[14] during his mandate as Minister of Education (2003–2007) the region delayed the implementation of the subject of Educación para la Ciudadanía promoted by the national government of José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero.[6][n. 1] Peral broke the party discipline in March 2016 when he deliberately missed the voting for the Law against the LGTB-Phobia promoted by the PP government presided by Cristina Cifuentes.[17] He resigned to his seat as member of the Assembly in December 2016 alleging "personal reasons", and also announced the end of his political activity.[18][19]

He was indicted by the Audiencia Nacional in July 2018, and cited to declare in September, on the basis of an accusation for crimes of misappropriation and corrupt practice during the purchase of Inassa. In May 2019, Manuel García-Castellón (judge at the helm of the Central Instruction Court number 6 of the Audiencia Nacional) dismissed all the criminal charges pressed against Peral and a number of indicted people in the case in line with the nolle prossed position adopted by the prosecutor.[20][21]

Notes
  1. He also personally awarded the Ultra-Conservative lobby HazteOir in 2004.[15] He claimed the decision had been taken by a jury.[16]

References
  1. "Ilmo. Sr. D. Luis. Peral Guerra". Assembly of Madrid. Archived from the original on 20 January 2018. Retrieved 27 January 2019.
  2. "Enlace Peral Guerra-Ferré de la Peña". ABC. Madrid: 43. 20 March 1992.
  3. Vélez, Antonio M. (27 November 2018). "Un exsenador del PP imputado en el caso Lezo controla una participación en una empresa en Luxemburgo" [A former PP senator charged in the Lezo case controls a stake in a company in Luxembourg.]. eldiario.es.
  4. "Enlace Peral-Guerra". ABC: 43. 16 November 1949.
  5. País, Ediciones El (2003-11-22). «Luis Peral Guerra». El País. ISSN 1134-6582. Consultado el 2020-01-28
  6. Muñoz Ramírez 2016, p. 313-314.
  7. Muñoz Ramírez 2016, p. 314.
  8. "Gallardón prescinde de Villapalos y forma un Gobierno más técnico para las elecciones de 2003". ABC. Madrid: 4–5. 21 September 2001.
  9. Junta Electoral Provincial de Madrid: "Elecciones a la Asamblea de Madrid 1999. Candidaturas proclamadas" (PDF). Boletín Oficial de la Comunidad de Madrid (116): 23–38. 18 May 1999. ISSN 1989-4791.
  10. Junta Electoral Provincial de Madrid: "Acta de proclamación de los resultados de las elecciones a la Asamplea de Madrid convocadas por Decreto 6/1999, de 19 de abril, y celebradas el 13 de junio de 1999" (PDF). Boletín Oficial de la Comunidad de Madrid (154): 21–22. 1 July 1999. ISSN 1989-4791.
  11. Sánchez, Inmaculada. "Aguirre, nueva musa para Rajoy". El Siglo de Europa (580). Archived from the original on 20 January 2018. Retrieved 27 January 2019.
  12. Ejerique, Raquel; Escolar, Ignacio (16 May 2018). "El gobierno de Esperanza Aguirre controlaba la universidad privada donde Pablo Casado aprobó media carrera en 4 meses". Eldiario.es.
  13. "Peral Guerra, Luis. VIII Legislatura". Senate of Spain.
  14. Casqueiro, Javier (25 January 2017). "La dirección del PP teme un debate sobre el aborto y la maternidad subrogada en el próximo congreso". El País.
  15. Ponce de León, Rodrigo (2 March 2017). "Esperanza Aguirre financió a HazteOir con dinero de la Agencia de Cooperación e Inmigración". Eldiario.es.
  16. "El Gobierno de Aguirre premia a una página que denuncia a UNICEF por abortista". El País. 15 October 2004.
  17. "Luis Peral renuncia a su acta de diputado del PP en la Asamblea de Madrid". El Mundo. 26 December 2016.
  18. "Luis Peral renuncia a su acta de diputado del PP en la Asamblea de Madrid". Telemadrid. 26 December 2016. Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
  19. "El diputado popular Luis Peral deja su escaño en la Asamblea de Madrid". El País. 28 December 2016.
  20. "El juez imputa al gobierno de Gallardón en pleno por la compra de Inassa". Eldiario.es. 31 July 2018.
  21. Martialay, Ángela (30 May 2019). "El juez del 'caso Lezo' archiva la causa para el ex ministro Ruiz-Gallardón tras la petición del fiscal". El Independiente.

Bibliography
  • Muñoz Ramírez, Alicia (2016). Movilización contra educación para la ciudadanía y los derechos humanos. Castilla-la Mancha, Castilla y León y Madrid. Universidad de Salamanca. ISBN 978-84-9012-601-1.
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