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Jerez de la Frontera (Cádiz), Sep 19 (EFE) .- Pedro Pacheco, a political personalism marked by strong, has always maintained that nothing in life is how it begins how it ends. His political life, which has ruled Jerez de la Frontera (Cádiz) for 24 years as if it were your home, you may end behind bars.
Fan running marathons, Pacheco (Jerez, 1949) broke into local politics in municipal elections in 1979, becoming, when he was 30, mayor of Jerez, a position he would hold for 24 years.
Your name hit the national media when, in December 1989 famously being sentenced to six years’ disqualification by the Court of Seville by declaring that “justice is a joke”, after canceling a municipal court demolition order of the chalet a singer Bertin Osborne.
From humble origins, his neighbors found him as the right man to lead the transformation of a city that so many saw only as “gentlemen” and “horses”.
lawyer and employee of the Box Savings Jerez, he then became one of the great leaders of the Socialist Party of Andalusia (PSA), which at that time lived its period of splendor and even had representation in the Congress of Deputies.
1982 he was elected deputy in the Andalusian Parliament in the first regional elections and held a seat in the European Parliament, in the Rainbow Group.
Municipal won in 1979 forced him to seek alliances with other formations policy, but four years later Pacheco could begin to rule the city with an absolute majority and handsfree.
His charisma was such that even a candidate came to recognize, years later, in 1983 elections preferred vote Pacheco before his own party.
With his government, the Consistory was gaining weight in the city parallel to the decline of the wine industry, which until then had been the mainstay of its economy.
Pacheco, incontestable mayor boasted that he had become the City on the big locomotive municipality, an administration that ended up being working refuge of those who suffered the dismantling of the wine sector.
In the second half of the eighties, Jerez was “an island surrounded by cocoons” (by the socialist emblem), as claimed Pacheco, who boasted of governing one of the few large cities of Andalusia was not held the PSOE-A.
Were their moments of greatest popularity, coinciding with the opening of the racing circuit, one of his greatest legacies.
Backed by the majority, began to believe immune and turned the City into an extension of your own home.
Maybe it acted mostly as a single verse in the Andalusian Party, to the point of maintaining high-profile disputes with other leaders of the andalucismo as Seville Alejandro Rojas-Marcos, which came to cost him his expulsion from the party.
But Pacheco was above abbreviations, hence not hesitate to implement initiatives such as the Andalusian Progress Party (PAP ), purely local and that gave coverage to continue governing the City.
A mid-90s participate in a reunification andalucismo would be just the beginning of the decline of the PA, and then recover the old acronym PSA. Recently launched its latest political creature, Citizen Forum, exclusive presence in Jerez.
Pacheco is, according to those who know him, a stubborn and proud man, but tireless, capable worker up to run the six o’clock and resist in the city until late night.
In May 2003 he lost first municipal elections, was forced to close a deal “in extremis” with the popular María José García-Pelayo, allowing him to retain control of the council.
was barely past year and a half of the legislature when Garcia-Pelayo who was fired his first deputy mayor and Planning Officer, the leading to Pacheco to file a censure motion against the councilor and offer another politician covenant for mayor to socialist Pilar Sanchez.
In 2007, he garnered a new electoral failure, which led to the resignation of the minutes of council and temporarily abandon political life.
The outbreak of the economic crisis, which worsened in Jerez few cities and the precarious situation of the municipal coffers Pacheco encouraged to create Citizens’ Forum , which is still linked in various court cases pending.
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