Alberto Garre

Alberto Garre López (born 10 February 1952) is a Spanish politician who served as President of the Region of Murcia between April 2014 and July 2015. In March 2017, Garre left the People's Party, accusing the then national leader Mariano Rajoy of "inaction on corruption", founding his own party, Somos Región, in February 2018. He currently serves as president of that party.

Biography Alberto Garre was born in the Pachequera district of Balsicas, where his father worked as a pharmacist. At the age of eighteen months he was orphaned by his mother, who died in an accident.

After studying high school at the Loreto School in Santiago de la Ribera, he studied law at the University of Murcia and after graduating, he began to practice as a lawyer, a profession he did not abandon for many years, combining it with his dedication to politics. and president of the PP in Torre-Pacheco.

In 2014, after Ramón Luis Valcárcel resigned as President of the Region of Murcia to join the European Parliament, the Regional Executive Board of the Partido Popular elected him "by acclamation "7 on 12 March as Valcárcel's successor. After obtaining the support of the Regional Assembly in the investiture debate, he took office on April 10, 2014.

As President of the Autonomous Community of the Region of Murcia, among other actions, he promoted the limitation of the Presidents' mandates to 8 years and the Law on Transparency. He unblocked the contract with the concessionaire for non-compliance regarding Murcia Region International Airport and set in motion the procedure for awarding the contract again. It agreed on an Employment Pact with the employers and unions and promoted the Drought Decree with the Ministry of Agriculture.

In July 2015, and after the May regional elections, he was relieved of the presidency by Pedro Antonio Sánchez, who had been part of his government as Minister of Education.

In March 2017, he left the Popular Party, accusing its leaders of covering up corruption cases. He specifically cited an instance where the party leaders allowed Pedro Antonio Sánchez to be re-elected as head of the regional party, despite the fact that Sánchez was currently under investigation for corruption.

In April 2018, he founded Somos Región, a regionalist political party with a focus on social reform.