Manuel Marín

Manuel Marín
Marín in 1996
Acting President of the European Commission
In office
15 March 1999  15 September 1999
Vice PresidentLeon Brittan
Preceded byJacques Santer
Succeeded byRomano Prodi
President of the Congress of Deputies
In office
8 April 2004  31 March 2008
Preceded byLuisa Fernanda Rudi
Succeeded byJosé Bono
European Commissioner for External Relations
In office
23 January 1995  15 September 1999
PresidentJacques Santer
Himself (Acting)
Preceded byHans van den Broek
Succeeded byChris Patten
Member of the Congress of Deputies
In office
3 March 2000  9 March 2008
In office
15 June 1977  29 June 1986
Personal details
Born
Manuel Marín González

(1949-10-21)21 October 1949
Ciudad Real, Spain
Died4 December 2017(2017-12-04) (aged 68)
Madrid, Spain
Political partySocialist Workers' Party

Manuel Marín González (21 October 1949 – 4 December 2017) was a Spanish politician, former President of the Congress of Deputies of Spain. He was a long-time member of the European Commission, and acting president during the Santer Commission following the resignation of Jacques Santer. He is considered the father of the Erasmus Programme.