Alejandro Cercas Alonso is a Spanish

Spain

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 politician and Member of the European Parliament

Member of the European Parliament

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 for the Spanish Socialist Workers' Party

Spanish Socialist Workers' Party

The Spanish Socialist Workers' Party is a social-democratic political party in Spain. Its political position is Centre-left. The PSOE is the former ruling party of Spain, until beaten in the elections of November 2011 and the second oldest, exceeded only by the Partido Carlista, founded in...

, part of the Party of European Socialists

Party of European Socialists

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. Cercas began his political career in 1982 when he was elected to the Spanish Congress of Deputies, representing Caceres

Cáceres (Spanish Congress Electoral District)

Cáceres is one of the 52 electoral districts used for the Spanish Congress of Deputies - the lower chamber of the Spanish Parliament, the Cortes Generales. It is one of two electoral districts which correspond to the provinces of Extremadura...

 and was re-elected at the subsequent elections in 1986, 1989, 1993 and 1996. In 2010 he signed the Manifesto of the Spinelli Group

Spinelli Group

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 positionning itself in favour of a federal Europe.