{{Short description|Spanish politician (born 1949)}} {{for|the Mexican politician (1896–1970)|Javier Rojo Gómez}} {{family name hatnote|Rojo|Garcia|lang=Spanish}} {{Multiple issues| {{BLP primary sources|date=March 2012}} {{more footnotes needed|date=March 2012}} {{BLP sources|date=December 2011}} }} {{Use dmy dates|date=October 2022}} {{Infobox officeholder |honorific_prefix = Excelentísimo Señor<br />Don |name = Javier Rojo |image = Javierr.JPG |image_size = 220px |alt = |caption = |order = 58th |office = President of the Spanish Senate |term_start = 2 April 2004 |term_end = 13 December 2011 |predecessor = [[Juan José Lucas]] |successor = [[Pío García-Escudero]] |order2 = [[Spanish Senate|Senator from]] [[Álava]] |office2 = |term_start2 = 1993 |term_end2 = 2011 |alongside2 = [[Ramón Rabanera Rivacoba]] and [[Miguel Ángel Uzquiza González]] and [[Yolanda Vicente González]] |predecessor2 = <!--Can be repeated up to eight times by changing the number--> |successor2 = <!--Can be repeated up to eight times by changing the number--> |constituency2 = [[Álava]] |birth_name = Francisco Javier Rojo Garcia |birth_date = 2 March 1949 |birth_place = [[Pamplona]], Navarre, [[Spanish State|Spain]] |death_date = |death_place = |party = [[Spanish Socialist Workers' Party|PSOE]] ([[Socialist Party of the Basque Country–Basque Country Left|PSE-EE]]) |children = 2 Daughters |alma_mater = |occupation = Politician |profession = [[Graphic Artist]] |signature = |signature_alt = |website = [http://www.senado.es/presidente/index_i_9.html Senate President] |footnotes = }} '''Francisco Javier Rojo Garcia''' (born 2 March 1949) is a Spanish socialist politician, from 2004 to 2011, he served as [[President of the Spanish Senate]].<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.senado.es/presidente/index_i_9.html |title=Archived copy |access-date=15 May 2010 |archive-date=27 March 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100327130205/http://www.senado.es/presidente/index_i_9.html |url-status=dead }}</ref>
==Early life== Rojo Garcia was born on 2 March 1949 in the city of [[a village of Burgos]]. He moved to [[Vitoria-Gasteiz]] when he was very young. A lithographer and graphic artist by trade he moved into politics in 1976, and rose quickly through the ranks of the [[PSE-EE]] (Basque Socialist Party). He is married, and has two daughters.
==Political activity== He has been a member of the [[Unión General de Trabajadores|UGT]] (Universal Trade Union) since 1976, the year after he joined the PSE. In 1979 he was elected Provincial Councillor of Álava, a post he held until 1983. In the 1982 general election he was elected to the Congress for the constituency of Álava, he would be re elected in the elections of 1986 and 1989.
In the [[1993 Spanish general election|1993 general election]] he was elected Senator for the constituency of Álava, a position to which he was re-elected in the elections of [[1996 Spanish general election|1996]], [[2000 Spanish general election|2000]], [[2004 Spanish general election|2004]] and [[2008 Spanish general election|2008]].
Since the victory of the [[Spanish Socialist Workers' Party]] in the 2004 general election, he served as President of the Senate from 2004 to 2011. In 2008, for his second term, he was the only presidential candidate on the ballot and was elected by an absolute majority on the first vote, receiving 134 of the 253 votes cast.
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