Alfonso Guerra

{{Short description|Spanish politician (born 1940)}}

{{family name hatnote|Guerra|González|lang=Spanish}}

{{for|the bishop|Alfonso Guerra (bishop)}}

{{BLP sources|date=September 2009}}

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{{Infobox officeholder

|name = Alfonso Guerra González

|image = Alfonso Guerra 2011.jpg

|office1 = Deputy Prime Minister of Spain

|primeminister1 = Felipe González

|term_start1 = 3 December 1982[https://www.boe.es/boe/dias/1982/12/03/pdfs/A33339-33339.pdf Real Decreto 3294/1982, de 2 de diciembre. BOE 3 December 1982]

|term_end1 = 15 January 1991[https://www.boe.es/boe/dias/1991/01/15/pdfs/A01316-01316.pdf Real Decreto 5/1991, de 14 de enero. BOE 15 January 1991]

|predecessor1 = Rodolfo Martín Villa

|successor1 = Narcís Serra

|office2 = Member of the Congress of Deputies

|term_start2 = 15 June 1977

|term_end2 = 14 January 2015

|constituency2 = Seville

|birth_name = Alfonso Guerra González

|birth_date = {{birth date and age|1940|5|31|df=y}}

|birth_place = Seville, Spain

|death_date =

|death_place =

|party = PSOE

|spouse =

|alma_mater = University of Seville

}}

Alfonso Guerra González (born 31 May 1940) is a Spanish politician. A leading member of the Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE), he served as vice president of the government (vicepresidente del Gobierno, i.e. equivalent to deputy prime minister) of Spain from 1982 to 1991 under the premiership of Felipe González. He represented Seville province in the Congress of Deputies from 1977 to 2015, and was the longest-serving deputy at the time of his departure.

In 1988, Guerra received an honorary degree from the Universidad Nacional Federico Villarreal in Lima, Peru, and he was awarded the Medaglia D'oro in 1984 by the Sapienza University of Rome. Guerra was an extremely controversial politician, noted for his acid discourse against his opponents, which was criticised as demagogy by his political adversaries. He was forced to quit his position as vice-president after a financial scandal involving his brother Juan Guerra.{{cite web|author=Axel Tschentscher|url=http://www.servat.unibe.ch/icl/sp__indx.html |title=Spain Index|publisher=ICL |access-date=7 July 2013}}{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1990/09/17/world/spain-s-leader-feels-the-heat-from-scandal.html|title=Spain's Leader Feels the Heat From Scandal|newspaper=The New York Times|date=17 September 1990|access-date=7 July 2013}}{{cite news|last=Heywood|first=Paul|title=Sleaze in Spain|url=http://www.accessmylibrary.com/article-1G1-17784355/sleaze-spain-sleaze-politics.html|access-date=7 July 2013|work=Parliamentary Affairs|date=1 October 1995}}

On 5 November 2014, Guerra announced that he would be resigning from congress at the end of the parliamentary session in December 2014.[http://politica.elpais.com/politica/2014/11/05/actualidad/1415195657_634877.html Alfonso Guerra dejará el escaño en diciembre tras 37 años en el Congreso], El País, 5 December 2014 At the time of his resignation announcement, he was the longest serving member of congress.[http://www.laprovincia.es/espana/2014/11/05/guerra-diputado-veterano-congreso/644989.html El diputado más veterano en el Congreso], La Provincia: diario de Las Palmas, 5 November 2014, accessed 19 November 2014