Luis de Grandes Pascual

Luis de Grandes Pascual (born on 27 January 1945 in Guadalajara)is a Spanish politician and
Member of the European Parliament with the People's Party,part of the European People's Party and sits onthe European Parliament's Committee on Transport and Tourism.

He is a substitute for the Committee on Legal Affairs, a member of theDelegation to the EU-Chile Joint Parliamentary Committee and a substitute for theDelegation for relations with the countries of Central America.

Education

* Graduate in law
* Law degree and doctoral studies (Law Faculty, Complutense University, Madrid)
* Practising lawyer and member of the bar associations of Guadalajara and Alcalá de Henares (Madrid)
* Secretary-General for Youth in the National Executive of the UCD party
* UCD National Organisation Secretary
* National Secretary-General of the Christian Democrats (PDP)
* Member of the PP National Executive Committee
* Chairman of the PP Provincial and Regional Electoral Committee

Career

* 1983-1987 and 1991-1995: Member of the Regional Parliament of Castile-La Mancha and spokesman of the PP parliamentary group
* 1996-2000 and 2000-2004: Member of the Spanish Congress of Deputies (1977-1979, 1979-1982, 1986-1989, 1993-1996
* 1996-2004: Spokesman for the PP parliamentary group in the Spanish Congress of Deputies
* 1977-1979: Third Secretary of the Bureau of the Chamber of Deputies and member of the Constitutional Committee in the Constituent Assembly
* Patron of the Foundation for Analysis and Social Studies and of the Foundation for Humanism and Democracy

Decorations

* Order of Constitutional Merit (Spain)
* Order of Bernardo O'Higgins (Chile)

"See also:" European Parliament election, 2004 (Spain)

External links

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* [http://www.congreso.es/diputados/wfichadiputodas.jsp?num_leg=7&cod=265 His overview page at the Senate]
* [http://www.congreso.es/diputados/wfichadipu.jsp?cod=265&num_leg=7 Former functions in the Senate]