María Jesús Montero Cuadrado, is a Spanish hospital administrator and politician of the Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE) who has been serving as Minister of Finance and Civil Service under Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez since 2018. In the XV Legislature, which began in November 2023, she is part of the government as First Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Finance.
María Jesús Montero
María Jesús Montero
Spanish Socialist Workers' Party
The Spanish Socialist Workers' Party is a social-democratic political party in Spain. The PSOE has been in government longer than any other political party in modern democratic Spain: from 1982 to 1996 under Felipe González, 2004 to 2011 under José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero, and since 2018 under Pedro Sánchez.
Pablo Iglesias Posse addressing the workers during a 1905 demonstration in Madrid
Julián Besteiro, Daniel Anguiano, Andrés Saborit and Francisco Largo Caballero in the prison of Cartagena in 1918
The PSOE entered the provisional government of the Second Republic in 1931 with Indalecio Prieto, Fernando de los Ríos and Largo Caballero as ministers
Workers arrested by civil guards and assault guards during the 1934 Asturian revolutionary strike