Portal:Politics/Biography
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José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero (IPA: [xo'se lu'is ro'ðɾigeθ θapa'teɾo]) (born August 4, 1960 in Valladolid) is the President of the Government (Prime Minister) of Spain. The party he leads, the Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE), won the general election on March 14, 2004. Controversial actions of his government have included withdrawing Spanish troops from Iraq, legalizing same-sex marriages and giving amnesty to over 700,000 illegal immigrants in Spain.[1] He also presided over the Spanish Parliament's approval of the Controversial Statute of Autonomy of Catalonia.
