) is a Spanish politician and former member of the Spanish Parliament.

Married, with two children, he qualified as a Lawyer specialising in Labour Law. He became a member of the Communist Party of Spain (PCE) in 1972. In 1986 the PCE joined with other left-wing parties to form the coalition United Left

United Left (Spain)

The United Left is a political coalition that was organized in 1986 bringing together several political organisations opposed to Spain joining NATO. It was formed by a number of groups of leftists, greens, left-wing socialists and republicans, but was dominated by the Communist Party of Spain...

 (IU) and in 1989

Spanish general election, 1989

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 he was elected to the Spanish Congress representing Valencia Province

Valencia (Spanish Congress Electoral District)

Valencia is one of the 52 electoral districts used for the Spanish Congress of Deputies—the lower chamber of the Spanish Parliament, the Cortes Generales. It is the third largest district in Congress in terms of the numbers of deputies elected, as it elects sixteen deputies out of the total...

  and was re-elected in 1993

Spanish general election, 1993

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 and 1996

Spanish general election, 1996

General elections were held in Spain on March 3, 1996. The Prime Minister Felipe González of Spanish Socialist Workers' Party lost the elections to Partido Popular and their leader José María Aznar....

. In September 1997, following internal divisions, he left IU and joined the newly created New Left Democratic Party (Partido Democratico de la Nueva Izquierda). In 1999 he was part of the strand of that party which broke away and merged with the Spanish Socialist Workers' Party

Spanish Socialist Workers' Party

The Spanish Socialist Workers' Party is a social-democratic political party in Spain. Its political position is Centre-left. The PSOE is the former ruling party of Spain, until beaten in the elections of November 2011 and the second oldest, exceeded only by the Partido Carlista, founded in...

 (PSOE) which Peralta then joined. He did not stand at the 2000 election

Spanish general election, 2000

Legislative elections were held in Spain on 12 March 2000. The incumbent People's Party of Prime Minister José María Aznar was elected to a second term in office, converting its plurality of seats in the Congress of Deputies into a majority, and increasing its lead over the opposition Spanish...

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In May 2008, after an absence from front line politics, he was named as the Central Government's delegate in the Valencian Community.