José Luis Corcuera | |
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Minister of Interior | |
In office 12 July 1988 – 23 November 1993 | |
Prime Minister | Felipe González |
Preceded by | José Barrionuevo |
Succeeded by | Antoni Asunción Hernández |
Personal details | |
Born | 1944 (age 79–80) |
Nationality | Spanish |
José Luis Corcuera (born 1944) is a Spanish politician who served as interior minister of Spain from 1988 to 1993.
Corcuera hails from a Basque family. [1] He was born in 1944 and was raised in Bilbao. [2] He left school at 14. [2]
Corcuera headed the General Workers Union, a socialist trade union. [2] [3] He was a member of the Spanish Congress of Deputies, [4] representing Biscay Province from 1982 to 1986 and Burgos Province from 1993 to 1994. He was appointed interior minister to the cabinet led by Prime Minister Felipe González in a reshuffle on 12 July 1988, replacing José Barrionuevo in the post. [1] [5] He retained his post in a cabinet reshuffle of July 1993. [6] However, on 23 November 1993 he resigned from office due to the fact that the bill he developed, the Corcuera law, was declared unlawful. [7] Antoni Asunción replaced him as interior minister. Corcuera also resigned from his parliamentary seat. [4]
In September 2001, Corcuera and José Barrionuevo were tried for the misuse of the public funds which occurred in 1993. [8] [9] Both were found innocent of embezzlement charges in January 2002. [10]
In a detective novel entitled Sabotaje olímpico (Spanish: Olympic Sabotage) written by Manuel Vázquez Montalbán there are frequent references to Corcuera as the interior minister in a critical manner. [11]