Antonio Gutiérrez Limones

Antonio Gutiérrez Limones (born January 6, 1963, in Seville, Spain) is a Spanish politician and senator.[1] He is the Chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee of the Spanish Senate.[2] He was elected senator on May 21, 2019, after the general elections.[3]

Senator
Antonio Gutierrez Limones
Senator at Cortes Generales
Assumed office
May 21, 2019
Senator of Cortes Generales
In office
January 11, 2016 – March 5, 2019
Personal details
BornJanuary 6, 1963
Seville, Spain
Political partySpanish Socialist Workers' Party
Alma materUniversity of Seville

Early life and education

Gutiérrez Limones was born January 6, 1963, in Seville, Andalusia, Spain. He attended the University of Seville where he studied Law and graduated with a BSc and subsequently obtained a master's degree in local development. Limones also has a Master's degree in business management from the same university.

Political career

Career in local politics

Gutiérrez Limones began his political career running as Mayor of Alcalá de Guadaíra. On May 28, 1995, during the general municipality elections he won the election as Mayor of Alcala de Guadaira. He was elected Mayor of the 3rd city of Province of Seville.[4] In June 1999, he was reelected as Mayor.[5]

Senate mandate

During the 2008 general elections Gutiérrez Limones contested as senator under the Spanish Socialist Workers' Party for the Seville (Congress of Deputies constituency) and won with approximately 574,240 votes. He is a member of the Permanent Deputation of Spain. In November 2011, he was re-elected into the Senate of Spain. In the senate he was appointed Vice-chairman of Foreign Affairs and Local Entities committees in the Senate of Spain.[6] He is a member of the Spanish delegation to the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe.[7]

Congress of Deputies

In the 2015 elections, Gutiérrez Limones was elected into the Congress of Deputies of Spain. He was re-elected on the event of the early legislative elections of June 2016 which he then tendered his resignation from his mandate as mayor in accordance with the statutes of the party from May 5. He retains all of his parliamentary powers.[8]

In addition to his committee assignments, Gutiérrez Limones has been a member of the Spanish delegation to the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe since 2012. In this capacity, he has served on the Committee on Political Affairs and Democracy (since 2019); the Committee on the Honouring of Obligations and Commitments by Member States of the Council of Europe (Monitoring Committee) (since 2019); the Committee on Legal Affairs and Human Rights (2016–2019); the Committee on Social Affairs, Health and Sustainable Development (2014–2016); the Committee on Equality and Non-Discrimination (2012–2014); and the Committee on Culture, Science, Education and Media (2012–2016).[9] Since 2016, he has been one of the Assembly’s vice-presidents.[10]

Alleged funds embezzlement

In June 2017, an investigating Judge in Seville asked the Supreme Court in Spain to indict Gutiérrez Limones over an alleged embezzlement of public funds meant for Alcalá Comunicación Municipal.[11] The case was file and opened in the supreme court in November 2017 but in April 2018 the case was dismissed from the Supreme Court of Spain due to the statute of limitations of the facts alleged against him.[12][11]

References
  1. España, Senado de. "Senado de España: home". www.senado.es (in Spanish). Retrieved April 16, 2021.
  2. "VOX Gibraltar News – Courtesy Call by Senator Antonio Gutierrez Limones". vox.gi. Retrieved April 16, 2021.
  3. "Gutiérrez Limones, new president of the Senate Foreign Affairs Committee". The Diplomat in Spain. August 1, 2019. Retrieved April 16, 2021.
  4. 20minutos (August 30, 2007). "Limones irá a Bruselas para exigir que se acabe con la contaminación del río Guadaíra". www.20minutos.es – Últimas Noticias (in Spanish). Retrieved April 16, 2021.
  5. "EL PUENTE DE CARLOS III VUELVE A SU ESTADO ORIGINAL". Ayuntamiento de Alcalá De Guadaíra (in Spanish). Retrieved April 16, 2021.
  6. "Nuevo Secretario General y portavoces adjuntos en el Grupo Socialista del Senado". www.psoe.es. Archived from the original on May 28, 2019. Retrieved April 16, 2021.
  7. Sur, Europa (August 27, 2011). ""Mi madre me animó a entrar en el mundo de la moda"". Europa Sur (in European Spanish). Retrieved April 16, 2021.
  8. "Gutiérrez Limones renuncia a la Alcaldía de Alcalá de Guadaíra". La Vanguardia (in Spanish). May 5, 2016. Retrieved April 16, 2021.
  9. Antiono Gutiérrez Limones Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE).
  10. PACE elects a new Vice-President in respect of Spain Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE), press release of 18 April 2016.
  11. "El Supremo abre causa penal contra el exalcalde Gutiérrez Limones". sevilla (in Spanish). November 23, 2017. Retrieved April 16, 2021.
  12. 20minutos (November 26, 2017). "Ferraz cita al diputado investigado por el TS Gutiérrez Limones para que dé explicaciones". www.20minutos.es – Últimas Noticias (in Spanish). Retrieved April 16, 2021.
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