Manuel Giménez Abad
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Manuel was born in Pamplona on 4 December 1948. He studied law in the University of Navarra, once he completed the studies, he imparted the teaching. As well as in the Aragonese Institute of Public Administration and the University of Granada. He became part of the Superior Body of Civil Administrators of the Spanish State. There held relevant positions, as General Secretary of the Institute of Administrative Studies, Chief of the Section of Selection and Improvement Qualification and Technical Advisor.
He was always linked to administration. He joined the Provincial Government of Aragon, wherein 1995 he became the Director of the Presidency and Institutional Relations of the Government of Aragon. In 1999 he was elected Deputy to the Cortes of Aragon for the People's party and later Senator by the Autonomous Community of Aragon.[3]
On 24 February 2001 Manuel was appointed President of the People's Party in Aragon, substituting Santiago Lanzuela. He assumed the party leadership at a critical moment due to the pressure Aragonese social plan against the National Hydrological Plan and the transfer of the Ebro.[4]
