The Most Excellent
José Manuel Rodríguez Uribes
Minister of Culture and Sports
In office
13 January 2020 – 11 July 2021
Prime MinisterPedro Sánchez
Preceded byJosé Guirao
Succeeded byMiquel Iceta
Government Delegate in the Community of Madrid
In office
25 June 2018 – April 2019
Member of the Assembly of Madrid
In office
11 June 2019 – 13 January 2020
Personal details
Born (1968-10-09) 9 October 1968
Valencia, Spain
Political partySpanish Socialist Workers' Party
Alma materUniversity of Valencia
Charles III University of Madrid
OccupationPolitician, university professor, philosopher of law

José Manuel Rodríguez Uribes (born 9 October 1968) is a Spanish philosopher of law and politician of the Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE) who has been serving as Minister of Culture and Sport in the government of Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez since 2020. He is also a member of the PSOE's federal executive board.

Rodríguez Uribes was a member of the Assembly of Madrid from 2019 to 2020. He served as Government Delegate in the Community of Madrid between 2018 and 2019.

Early life and education

Born in Valencia on 9 October 1968,[1][2] Rodríguez Uribes earned a licentiate degree in law at the University of Valencia (UV); he later obtained a PhD in the same field at the Charles III University of Madrid (UC3M),[3] reading a dissertation in 1998 titled Los discursos democrático y liberal sobre la opinión pública (dos modelos, Rousseau y Constant) and supervised by Gregorio Peces Barba.

In November 2018, during a meeting in the Delegation of the Government with representative of the Madrid City Council, the National Police Corps and the Madrid Municipal Police Corps.

Early career

Rodríguez Uribes was appointed Director General in Support of the Victims of Terrorism in September 2006.[4] He held the post until December 2011,[5][6] when Mariano Rajoy became Prime Minister.

Rodríguez Uribes has worked as tenured professor both at the UV and the UC3M.

Political career

Rodríguez Uribes joined the Federal Executive Board of the Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE) led by Pedro Sánchez in June 2017, tasked in the area of Laicity.[7]

Following the investiture of Sánchez as Prime Minister in June 2018, Rodríguez Uribes was chosen to replace Concepción Dancausa at the helm of the Government Delegation in the Community of Madrid. His appointment was sanctioned through an 18 June royal decree,[8][9] swearing in the post on 25 June.[10]

Rodríguez Uribes remained in office until April 2019 as he was included then in the 3rd place of the PSOE list for the 2019 Madrilenian regional election led by Ángel Gabilondo.[11][12]

As an elected member of the 11th term of the regional legislature, Rodríguez Uribes became the attached spokesperson of the Socialist Parliamentary Group.[13]

Minister of Culture and Sport, 2020–present

Appointed Minister of Culture and Sport of the Sánchez II Government, Rodríguez Uribes assumed office on 13 January 2020.[14][15]

Amid the COVID-19 pandemic in Spain, Rodríguez Uribes led efforts to re-open the country's public life by announcing in May 2021 that a maximum of 5,000 spectators would be able to attend soccer games in regions with fewer than 50 COVID-19 cases per 100,000 inhabitants.[16]

Works

  • — (1999). Opinión pública. Concepto y modelos históricos. Madrid.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)[17]
  • — (1999). Sobre la democracia de Jean-Jacques Rousseau. Madrid.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
  • — (2002). Formalismo ético y constitucionalismo. Valencia: Tirant lo Blanch.[18]
  • — (2013). Las víctimas del terrorismo en España. Madrid: Dykinson.
  • — (2015). Gregorio Peces-Barba. Justicia y Derecho (La Utopía Posible). Madrid: Thomson Reuters.[19]
  • — (2017). Elogio de la laicidad. Hacia el Estado laico: la modernidad pendiente. Madrid: Dykinson.

References

Citations
  1. ↑ "Consejo de Ministros. Referencia. 25 de noviembre de 2005" (PDF). La Moncloa.
  2. ↑ "Rodríguez Uribes, el nuevo delegado del Gobierno de Madrid, desciende de Valverde de Júcar". Voces de Cuenca. 16 June 2018. Archived from the original on 24 June 2018. Retrieved 13 October 2019.
  3. ↑ "José Manuel Rodríguez Uribes, nuevo delegado del Gobierno en Madrid". El País. 14 June 2018.
  4. ↑ Ministerio del Interior: "Real Decreto 1007/2006, de 8 de septiembre, por el que se nombra Director General de Apoyo a Víctimas del Terrorismo a don José Manuel Rodríguez Uribes" (PDF). Boletín Oficial del Estado (218): 32236. 12 September 2006. ISSN 0212-033X.
  5. ↑ "José Manuel Rodríguez Uribes, nuevo delegado del Gobierno en Madrid". ABC. 15 June 2018.
  6. ↑ "El secretario de Laicidad del PSOE, José Manuel Rodríguez Uribes, nuevo delegado del Gobierno en Madrid". Europa Press. 14 June 2018.
  7. ↑ "Los 20 pretorianos de Pedro Sánchez". El Mundo. 18 June 2018.
  8. ↑ Presidencia del Gobierno: "Real Decreto 469/2018, de 18 de junio, por el que se nombra Delegado del Gobierno en la Comunidad de Madrid a don José Manuel Rodríguez Uribes" (PDF). Boletín Oficial del Estado (148, de 19 June 2018): 61871. ISSN 0212-033X.
  9. ↑ "José Manuel Rodríguez Uribes tomará posesión el lunes como delegado del Gobierno en Madrid". Ministerio de Política Territorial y Función Pública. 22 June 2018.
  10. ↑ "El delegado del Gobierno combatirá los "prejuicios" de género y raciales". ABC. 25 June 2018.
  11. ↑ "María Paz García Vera sustituye a Rodríguez Uribes como delegada del Gobierno en Madrid". ABC. 12 April 2019.
  12. ↑ Presidencia del Gobierno: "Real Decreto 264/2019, de 12 de abril, por el que se dispone el cese de don José Manuel Rodríguez Uribes como Delegado del Gobierno en la Comunidad de Madrid" (PDF). Boletín Oficial del Estado (89): 39093. 13 April 2019. ISSN 0212-033X.
  13. ↑ "José Manuel Rodríguez Uribes". Assembly of Madrid.
  14. ↑ "Así han prometido su cargo ante el rey los 22 ministros de Pedro Sánchez". www.telemadrid.es. Telemadrid. 13 January 2020.
  15. ↑ S.A, Web Financial Group. "Rodríguez Uribes reivindica la visión de los "valores" en la cultura y afirma su voluntad de "escucha" y "diálogo"". BOLSAMANIA (in Spanish). Retrieved 13 January 2020.
  16. ↑ Spain to allow spectators back to matches Reuters, May 12, 2021.
  17. ↑ "El secretario de Laicidad del PSOE, José Manuel Rodríguez Uribes, nuevo delegado del Gobierno en Madrid". Europa Press. 14 June 2018.
  18. ↑ Asís Roig 2002, pp. 625–630.
  19. ↑ Casal Oubiña 2016, pp. 277–284.
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