Francisco Vázquez Vázquez

Francisco José Vázquez Vázquez (born 9 April 1946) is a Spanish politician who represented the Socialists' Party of Galicia. He was mayor of his hometown of A Coruña from 1983 to 2006, and also served in the Parliament of Galicia and both chambers of the Cortes Generales. From 2006 to 2011, he was Spain's ambassador to the Holy See. Vázquez, who holds socially conservative beliefs, later left the Spanish Socialist Workers' Party due to differences in ideology.