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José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero
Prime Minister of Spain
In office
16 April 2004 – 21 December 2011
MonarchJuan Carlos I
DeputyMaría Teresa Fernández de la Vega
Alfredo Pérez Rubalcaba
Elena Salgado
Preceded byJosé María Aznar
Succeeded byMariano Rajoy
Secretary-General of the Spanish Socialist Workers' Party
In office
22 July 2000 – 4 February 2012
PresidentManuel Chaves
Preceded byJoaquín Almunia
Succeeded byAlfredo Pérez Rubalcaba
Leader of the Opposition
In office
22 July 2000 – 16 April 2004
Prime MinisterJosé María Aznar
Preceded byLuis Martínez Noval
Succeeded byMariano Rajoy
Personal details
Born (1960-08-04) 4 August 1960 (age 64)
Valladolid, Spain
Political partySpanish Socialist Workers' Party
SpouseSonsoles Espinosa (1990–present)
ChildrenLaura
Alba
Alma materUniversity of León
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  1. ^ "The country's Left-leaning Prime Minister, a self-declared agnostic, became a bête noire of the Catholic Church during his first term in office by legalising same-sex marriage, introducing fast-track divorce and allowing embryonic stem-cell research." [1]
  2. ^ "And yet today’s Prime Minister Zapatero is a self-proclaimed agnostic, whose presidency of the EU makes no mention of his country’s evangelising mission but rather focuses on issues which the Spanish socialist Government claims as the preserve of a liberated secular society, such as gender equality in all its manifestations from gay rights to abortion." Pedalo, [2], Jimmy Burns archive article, March 6, 2012 (accessed July 14, 2014).