European People's Party group of the European Parliament. His position against abortion and LGBT rights, and his hard-line stance against terrorism, placed him at the far right of his party. After a series of public spats with his party's leadership over their strategy in the final days of ETA, Mayor Oreja decided not to run again for the European Parliament in the 2014 election, and largely abandoned public life. Since then, he has chaired the Fundación Valores y Sociedad, an ultraconservative lobby devoted to extending ultra-catholic ideas throughout the Spanish-speaking world. He has since publicly engaged with the defence of what he deems as "traditional" values, including positions against gender studies, women's rights, and LGBTQ rights. He has denounced what he deems as the moral decadence of modern society, and claimed that abortion is something "worthy of bolcheviques", and deployed intense lobbying activity defending these stances in Latin America. References External links 1951 births Living people Interior ministers of Spain Members of the 1st Basque Parliament Members of the 2nd Basque Parliament Members of the 4th Basque Parliament Members of the 5th Basque Parliament Members of the 7th Basque Parliament Members of the 1st Congress of Deputies (Spain) Members of the 4th Congress of Deputies (Spain) Members of the 6th Congress of Deputies (Spain) Members of the 7th Congress of Deputies (Spain) Members of the 8th Congress of Deputies (Spain) MEPs for Spain 2004–2009 MEPs for Spain 2009–2014 People's Party (Spain) MEPs Recipients of the Order of Constitutional Merit Politicians from San Sebastián