Ramón Tamames

1933 -

photo credits: Wikimedia Commons

country of citizenship: Spain

languages spoken, written or signed: Spanish

educated at: University of Madrid, Instituto de Estudios Políticos, London School of Economics and Political Science

occupation: university teacher, economist, politician

award received: King James I Prize for Economics, Premio Espasa de Ensayo

position held: Madrid municipal councillor, primer teniente de alcalde de Madrid, Member of the Congress of Deputies

Ramón Tamames Gómez (born 1 November 1933) is a Spanish economist and former politician. He was a member of the Congress of Deputies and the City Council of Madrid in the early years after the Spanish transition to democracy. A long-term member of the Communist Party of Spain (PCE), he left in 1982 and founded the Progressive Federation (FP) and the United Left (IU). He left politics in 1989 after several months with the Democratic and Social Centre (CDS). In 2023, aged 89, he was proposed as a candidate for prime minister of Spain in a vote of no confidence tabled by Vox. Source: Wikipedia (en)