Carme Chacón

Carme Chacón Piqueras (Esplugues de Llobregat, Barcelona, March 13 1971) is a Spanish politician who is currently serving as Minister of Defence in the cabinet Spanish Prime Minister José Luis Rodriguez Zapatero. She is married and has given birth to her first child, a son named Miquel on May 19, 2008. [ Al Jazeera English "New Spanish Cabinet Revealed." http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/13E7F07A-637D-4D68-9833-83B241563DD8.htm]

She holds a bachelor and doctor in Law from the University of Barcelona, and she conducted her postgraduate study at Osgoode Hall Law School (Toronto), the University of Kingston and the University of Montreal. She worked as a Professor of Constitutional Law and Secretary of Education, Culture and Research in the Executive Commission of Spanish Socialist Workers' Party.

Chacón is a member of the PSC and PSOE. She was a PSOE member of parliament for Barcelona in the 7th and 8th legislatures, the vice-president of the Spanish Congress of Deputies (Lower House) in José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero's legislature and she was later named minister of Housing after María Antonia Trujillo.

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* [http://raelianews.org/news.php?extend.278 Spanish Raelian Movement supports Zapatero's female majority cabinet]