Gaspar Zarrías Explained

Gaspar Zarrias
Office:8th Secretary of State for Territorial Administrations
Term Start:25 April 2009
Term End:24 December 2011
Primeminister:José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero
Predecessor:Fernando Puig de la Bellacasa
Successor:Antonio Bateta
Office2:President of the Regional Government of Andalusia
Term Start2:7 April 2009
Term End2:23 April 2009
Monarch2:Juan Carlos I
Predecessor2:Manuel Chaves González
Successor2:José Antonio Griñán
Birth Date:30 April 1955
Birth Place:Madrid, Spain
Party:PSOE

Gaspar Zarrías Arevalo (born 30 April 1955) is a Spanish lawyer, politician and member of the Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE), which he joined in 1972.

Zarrias served as the interim President of the Regional Government of Andalusia from 7 April 2009, to 23 April 2009. He has served as the President's Office Minister for the Parliament of Andalusia and a member of the Organizing Committee of the Mediterranean Games of Almeria (COJMA). He has served as the Secretario de Ciudades y Política Municipal del PSOE, a leading position within the PSOE, since February 2012.

He previously served as a Councillor of Cazalilla (Jaén). He is involved in ERE corruption scandal since 2016.

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