Monarch Juan Carlos I Political party UCD Succeeded by Landelino Lavilla Alsina | Nationality Spanish Died 7 May 2016, Madrid, Spain Constituency Palencia | |
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Full Name Fernando Álvarez de Miranda y Torres Born 14 January 1924
Santander, Cantabria, Spain ( 1924-01-14 ) Party Union of the Democratic Centre Children Ramón María Álvarez de Miranda García People also search for Ramón María Álvarez de Miranda García | ||
Fernando Álvarez de Miranda y Torres (14 January 1924 – 7 May 2016) was a Spanish politician, lawyer, and university professor of Christian democratic and monarchist ideology. He was president of the Congress of Deputies from 1977 to 1979, the first after Spain's transition to democracy. From 1994 to 1999 he was Ombudsman of Spain.
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Biography
Álvarez de Miranda studied law at the University of Madrid, where he later taught procedural law. He was deported to Fuerteventura by the Franco regime for assisting to the 4th Congress of the European Movement International, celebrated in Munich in 1962. He was a member of Juan de Borbón's privy council.
Political career
During the Spanish Transition, Álvarez de Miranda founded the Christian Democratic Left, a split of the Democratic Left. The party joined several other Christian democratic parties to form the Christian Democrat Party, which was itself eventually integrated into the Union of the Democratic Centre. Álvarez de Miranda was elected to the Congress of Deputies after the 1977 Spanish general election and was President of the Congress during the Constituent Legislature. He was also Ambassador of Spain in El Salvador from 1986 to 1989 and Defender of the People (Ombudsman) of Spain from 1994 to 1999.
