Jesús Posada, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

Jesús Posada

President of the Spanish Congress of Deputies in the Tenth Legislature

Date of Birth: 04-Apr-1945

Place of Birth: Soria, Castile and León, Spain

Profession: engineer, politician, economist, civil engineer

Nationality: Spain

Zodiac Sign: Aries

Jesús Posada Moreno (born 4 April 1945), is the former President of the Congress of Deputies, the lower house of the Spanish Cortes Generales.
He has worked as a civil engineer and economist.From 1979 to 1981 he served as civil governor of the province of Huelva in Andalusia. He went on to represent Soria in the regional parliament of Castile and Leon from 1983.
From 1989 to 1991 he was president of the regional government.
He has represented Soria Province in the Congress of Deputies since the election of the fifth legislature on 29 June 1993.
He succeeded José Antonio de Miguel Nieto.
He is a member of the conservative People's Party, to which Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy also belongs.
In the government of José María Aznar, he was Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food from 1999 to 2000, and Minister of Public Administration from 2000 to 2002.On 13 December 2011 he was elected President of the Congress of Deputies for the tenth legislature, with 202 of a possible 350 votes.