Please answer the following question: Facts: - president: ramon rubial - party: psoe - deputy: alfonso i serra -lrb- 1991 -- 95 -rrb- alfonso guerra -lrb- guerra 1979 -- 97 -rrb- -lrb- 1982 -- 91 -rrb- narcis serra - monarch: juan carlos i juan carlos i juan carlos i - predecessor: leopoldo calvo-sotelo rodolfo llopis jose maria aznar position established - birth date: 5 march 1942 - spouse: maria 2008 -rrb- mar garcia vaquero -lrb- 2012 -- -rrb- del carmen julia romero lopez -lrb- 1969 -- - office: prime workers ' party leader of the opposition minister of spain secretary-general of the spanish socialist - term end: 4 1 december 1982 may 1996 21 june 1997 21 june 1997 - name: felipe gonzalez marquez - birth place: seville , spain - signature: signature of felipe gonzalez.png - successor: jose maria aznar joaquin almunia joaquin almunia manuel fraga - primeminister: jose maria aznar adolfo suarez leopoldo calvo-sotelo - alma mater: university of seville - children: pablo david maria - term start: 1 4 july 1977 december 1982 13 october 1974 4 may 1996 - image: felipe gonzalez par claude truong-ngoc juillet 2013.jpg - religion: roman catholicism Based on these bullet points, write a short biography describing the life of felipe gonzalez .
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felipe gonzalez marquez -lrb- , born 5 march 1942 -rrb- is a spanish social-democratic politician .he was the general secretary of the spanish socialist workers ' party -lrb- psoe -rrb- from 1974 to 1997 .to date , he remains the longest-serving prime minister of spain , after having served four successive mandates from 1982 to 1996 .his ascension is generally seen as the last step in the path to spain 's re-instatement of democracy which commenced with the death of francisco franco in 1975 .after losing power to partido popular 's jose maria aznar in 1996 , he briefly continued to lead the psoe but was ousted following a controversy regarding illegal actions his government had taken in the struggle against eta .