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Jorge Verstrynge
Jorge Verstrynge Rojas (September 22, 1948) is a Spanish former politician, activist and political scientist, professor in the Complutense University of Madrid. Secretary General of People's Alliance in the 1980s, he experimented along his political career an ideological switch towards leftist positions.
Biography.
Born 22 September 1948 in Tangier, he is son of a Spanish mother and a Belgian father, Willy Verstrynge-Thalloen, follower of Léon Degrelle during the Second World War. During his youth in Morocco and Algeria he
of the party's legal counsel.
In May 1983 he was elected to Madrid city council. In February 1986, at the party's Seventh National Congress, he joined its Executive Committee. In the same year, he ran unsuccessfully as a Senate candidate for Palencia in the general elections but finished fifth, 301 votes behind the successful PSOE candidate, in a district where four candidates were elected. In the aftermath, the secretary general of his party, Jorge Verstrynge, retired and Ruiz-Gallardón became the interim secretary general