Carme Chacón Piqueras
Minister of Defence
In office 2008 – Incumbent
Prime Minister	José Luis Rodriguez Zapatero
Preceded by	José Antonio Alonso
Born	March 13, 1971 (1971-03-13) (age 38) Esplugues de Llobregat, Spain
Political party	Spanish Socialist Workers' Party

Carme Chacón Piqueras (Esplugues de Llobregat, Barcelona, Spain 13 March 1971) is a Spanish politician who is currently serving as Minister of Defence in the cabinet led by Spanish Prime Minister José Luis Rodriguez Zapatero. She is married and gave birth to her first child, a son named Miquel on 19 May 2008.^[1]

She holds a bachelor in Law from the University of Barcelona, and she conducted her postgraduate study at Osgoode Hall Law School (Toronto), the University of Kingston and Laval University in Quebec City. She worked as a Professor of Constitutional Law and Secretary of Education, Culture and Research in the Executive Commission of Spanish Socialist Workers' Party.

Chacón is a member of the PSC and PSOE. She has been a PSOE member of parliament for Barcelona since the 2000 election, the vice-president of the Spanish Congress of Deputies (Lower House) in José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero's legislature and she was later named minister of Housing after María Antonia Trujillo before becoming Minister of Defence in April 2008.

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