page_title: Alfredo Pérez Rubalcaba
section_title: Stepping down and later life
hierarchical_section_title: Alfredo Pérez Rubalcaba / Stepping down and later life
caption_attribution_description: presentación del libro de David Alvaro: &quot; CATALUÑA, La construcción de un relato&quot;, en el auditorio Abante (Plaza de la Independencia, 6. Madrid).
context_page_description: Alfredo Pérez Rubalcaba was a Spanish statesman, politician and chemist who served as Deputy Prime Minister of Spain from 2010 to 2011, and previously as Minister of Education from 1992 to 1993, as Minister of the Presidency from 1993 to 1996, as Minister of the Interior from 2006 to 2011 and as acting Minister of Defence between May and June 2008.
  He also served as Leader of the Opposition from 2011 to 2014 and as Secretary-General of the Spanish Socialist Workers' Party from 2012 to 2014. He obtained a PhD in Organic Chemistry at the Complutense University of Madrid.
context_section_description: Due to the bad results of the party in the 2014 European Parliament election, on 26 May 2014 he resigned of the office. After a leadership election, Rubalcaba was succeeded by the newly elected Secretary General Pedro Sánchez on 13 July 2014.
  In September 2016 it was announced that Pérez Rubalcaba rejoined his position as Chemistry professor at the Complutense University of Madrid and, in addition, he joined the editorial board of the Spanish newspaper El País, of which he was part until July 2018.
  Amid the 2019 Madrid City Council election, on 26 December 2018 he rejected the proposal of Pedro Sánchez to be the PSOE candidate for mayor of Madrid.
caption: Rubalcaba in January 2019 with Josep Piqué (right)
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