Juan Espadas


Juan Espadas Cejas is a Spanish politician. He was the Minister of Housing and Planning for the Government of Andalusia from 2008 to 2010 and a senator from 2010 to 2013. Since June 2015, he has served as the mayor of Seville. He is a member of the Spanish Socialist Workers' Party.

Biography

Espadas was born in Seville and grew up in the Miraflores district. When he was 22, he graduated from the University of Seville with degree in Law. He also has a degree in Business Management from the Institute of San Telmo. He is married and has two children.

Trajectory in the PSOE

In 1990 he began to collaborate with the PSOE as a sympathizer in the Environment sector group and participated in the expert groups for the drafting of the party's program for the regional elections. A year later, she wrote the Manual of the Environment Councillor for the municipal elections of 1991.
In 1997 he joined the PSOE and was appointed Federal Coordinator for the Environment, a responsibility he held until 2009. During this stage he worked with the teams of Joaquín Almunia and José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero coordinating the sectorial policies of the environment and territorial planning.
In 2008 he participated in the laying of the foundation stone for 583 subsidized housing units, promoted by the Foundation for the Development of Southern Europe.
On March 26, 2010, the 11 PSOE groups of Seville supported the proposal of the Provincial Executive Committee for the candidacy of Juan Espadas for the Mayor's Office of Seville in the 2011 municipal elections. The victory by absolute majority of the Popular Party candidate, Juan Ignacio Zoido, placed him as the leader of the main opposition party in the city council for 4 years. After the celebration of elections in 2015 he achieved the mayorship after a pact between the PSOE, Izquierda Unida and Participa Sevilla.15 June 2019, in the Plenary of the Constitution of the Municipal Corporation, he was re-elected Mayor of Seville thanks to the 13 votes of the socialist councillors.