Alejandro Rojas-Marcos
Alejandro Rojas-Marcos de la Viesca is a Spanish former politician of the Andalusian Party.
Biography
Rojas-Marcos was a member of the Congress of Deputies for Cádiz and Seville. He was also in the Andalusian Parliament from 1994 to 1996.1991 [Seville City Council election|In 1991], Rojas-Marcos was elected mayor of Seville after forming a pact with the People's Party led by Soledad Becerril. He remained as first deputy mayor when she succeeded him 1995 Seville [City Council election|in 1995]. He was mayor at the time of the Seville Expo '92. He dismissed Jesús Aguirre as director of the exposition in October 1991 for having accused him of a lack of cultural knowledge.
For the 2004 [European Parliament election in Spain], Rojas-Marcos led the European Coalition, a coalition of regionalist and peripheral nationalist parties. The party lost its two seats and received roughly half a million fewer votes than it did 1999 European [Parliament election in Spain|in 1999]. He put the blame on himself and the reduction of Spain's seats in the Parliament.
After a near total decline in its votes, Rojas-Marcos oversaw the PA's 17th congress in September 2015, in which the party was dissolved and he retired.
His younger brother became a noted psychiatrist in the United States.