In this Spanish name, the first or paternal surname is Mayor and the second or maternal family name is Oreja.
Jaime Mayor Oreja
MP MEP
Minister of the Interior
In office 4 May 1996 – 27 February 2001
Prime Minister
José María Aznar
Preceded by
Juan Alberto Belloch
Succeeded by
Mariano Rajoy
Member of the European Parliament
In office 13 June 2004 – 25 May 2014
Constituency
Spain
Member of the Congress of Deputies
In office 3 March 1996 – 24 April 2001
Constituency
Alava
In office 1 April 1979 – 28 October 1982
Constituency
Gipuzkoa
Member of the Basque Parliament
In office 8 June 2001 – 2 July 2004
Constituency
Biscay
In office 18 December 1990 – 29 March 1996
Constituency
Álava
In office 22 March 1984 – 1 October 1986
Constituency
Gipuzkoa
Personal details
Political party
People's Party (1989–present)
Other political affiliations
Union of the Democratic Centre (1977–1983) People's Coalition (1983–1986)
Jaime Mayor Oreja (born 12 July 1951) is a former[1] Spanish conservative politician of the People's Party. He served as member of the Basque Parliament, of the Spanish Parliament, and of the European Parliament, as well as being Spanish Minister of the Interior between 1996 and 2000. He is known for his outspoken anti-ETA rhetoric[2] and social ultracatholicism[3]
^"Mayor Oreja deja la política".
^"Noticias de terrorismo". Lukor (in Spanish). 22 July 2009. Archived from the original on 22 July 2009. Retrieved 16 March 2017.
^"La segunda vida de Mayor Oreja: llevar a Europa y América Latina el ultracatolicismo español".
Presidency. Less than a year later, on 28 February 2001, he replaced JaimeMayorOreja, candidate for President of the Government of the Basque Country,...
16 June 2018. "Los sondeos dan la victoria a Borrell el 13-J aunque MayorOreja empieza a recortar diferencias". Libertad Digital (in Spanish). Retrieved...
condemn Francoism, as demonstrated by Spanish right-wing politician JaimeMayorOreja: Why should I have to condemn Francoism when there were many families...
leadership but maintained the idea expressed by Interior Minister JaimeMayorOreja that it was a "trap truce", that is, that ETA had proclaimed the cessation...
dissolved. Belloch was in office until 6 May 1996 and was succeeded by JaimeMayorOreja in the post. He became a member of the Spanish parliament in 1996...
poll sources "Los sondeos que maneja el PSOE también dan la victoria a MayorOreja". El Imparcial (in Spanish). 5 June 2009. "El PP aventaja a los socialistas...
current and third chairman of the EIN is Paulo Rangel, who succeeded JaimeMayorOreja. Its director is Guillermo Martínez Casañ. The network has been steadily...
minister of the Interior JaimeMayorOreja on Maundy Thursday 1996 at the ecclesiastical see in a meeting arranged by the mayor of the city Antonio Vázquez...
José Manuel Durão Barroso, Manuel Fraga, Rodrigo Rato, Pedro Solbes, JaimeMayorOreja, Loyola de Palacio, Javier Solana, René-Jean Dupuy and Javier Elorza...
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