José Luis Corcuera

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José Luis Corcuera
José Luis Corcuera (1993)
Minister of Interior
In office
12 July 1988 – 23 November 1993
Prime MinisterFelipe González
Preceded byJosé Barrionuevo
Succeeded byAntoni Asunción Hernández
Personal details
Born1944 (age 79–80)
NationalitySpanish

José Luis Corcuera (born 1944) is a Spanish politician who served as interior minister of Spain from 1988 to 1993.

Early life[edit]

Corcuera hails from a Basque family.[1] He was born in 1944 and was raised in Bilbao.[2] He left school at 14.[2]

Career[edit]

Corcuera headed the General Workers Union, a socialist trade union.[2][3] He was a member of the Spanish Congress of Deputies,[4] representing Biscay Province from 1982 to 1986 and Burgos Province from 1993 to 1994. He was appointed interior minister to the cabinet led by Prime Minister Felipe González in a reshuffle on 12 July 1988, replacing José Barrionuevo in the post.[1][5] He retained his post in a cabinet reshuffle of July 1993.[6] However, on 23 November 1993 he resigned from office due to the fact that the bill he developed, the Corcuera law, was declared unlawful.[7] Antoni Asunción replaced him as interior minister. Corcuera also resigned from his parliamentary seat.[4]

Controversy[edit]

In September 2001, Corcuera and José Barrionuevo were tried for the misuse of the public funds which occurred in 1993.[8][9] Both were found innocent of embezzlement charges in January 2002.[10]

In popular culture[edit]

In a detective novel entitled Sabotaje olímpico (Spanish: Olympic Sabotage) written by Manuel Vázquez Montalbán there are frequent references to Corcuera as the interior minister in a critical manner.[11]

References[edit]

  1. ^ a b Robert P. Clark (1990). Negotiating with ETA: Obstacles to Peace in the Basque Country, 1975-1988. Reno, NV: University of Nevada Press. p. 220. ISBN 978-0-87417-162-4.
  2. ^ a b c Tom Burns (9 July 1988). "Cabinet Reshuffle in Madrid Gives Women 2 Posts". The Washington Post. Archived from the original on 5 November 2013. Retrieved 19 October 2013.
  3. ^ Paul Delaney (19 July 1988). "Gonzalez Fights Unrest with Cabinet Shuffle". The New York Times. Retrieved 20 October 2013.
  4. ^ a b Phil Davison (6 May 1994). "Gonzalez stands firm as ministers resign". The Independent. Madrid. Retrieved 19 October 2013.
  5. ^ Paddy Woodworth (2001). Dirty War, Clean Hands: ETA, the GAL and Spanish Democracy. Cork, Ireland: Cork University Press. p. 66. ISBN 978-1-85918-276-5.
  6. ^ Phil Davison (14 July 1993). "Gonzalez brings independents into Spain's cabinet: The left wing is shut out of new government". The Independent. Madrid. Retrieved 19 October 2013.
  7. ^ Víctor Pérez Díaz (1999). Spain at the Crossroads: Civil Society, Politics, and the Rule of Law. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press. p. 130. ISBN 978-0-674-00052-0.
  8. ^ Fernando Jiménez (1998). "Political scandals and political responsibility in democratic Spain". West European Politics. 21 (4): 97. doi:10.1080/01402389808425272.
  9. ^ Giles Tremlett (20 September 2001). "Spanish ex-ministers on trial for hush fund scandal". The Guardian. Madrid. Retrieved 19 October 2013.
  10. ^ Ciaran Giles (22 January 2002). "Court absolves former Socialist security ministers of embezzlement charges, finds five officials guilty". AP Worldstream. Archived from the original on 5 November 2013. Retrieved 19 October 2013.
  11. ^ Carlos van Tongeren (2016). "Confronting Conspiracies in Manuel Vázquez Montalbán's Late Carvalho Novels". Neophilologus. 100 (3): 375–379. doi:10.1007/s11061-015-9467-z. hdl:2066/156295. S2CID 254873471.

External links[edit]

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