José María Aznar

José María Aznar López is a Spanish politician who was the prime minister of Spain from 1996 to 2004. He led the People's Party, the dominant centre-right political party in Spain. In his teens, he joined the Frente de Estudiantes Sindicalistas, a dissident Falangist student organisation. He studied law at the Complutense University of Madrid and first worked in the public sector as an Inspector of the Finances of the State.