Josep PiquéCamps was a Spanish politician of the conservative People's Party (PP). He served in ministerial departments under the JoséMaría Aznar government. He also helmed the People's Party of Catalonia from 2003 to 2007.
Alberto Ruiz-Gallardón Jiménez is a Spanish politician and former Minister of Justice. He was mayor of Madrid between 2003 and 2011. A stalwart of the conservative People's Party (PP),he has previously been a leading figure in various local and national legislative bodies. In December 2011 Ruiz-Gallardón was appointed Minister of Justice in Mariano Rajoy's inaugural cabinet. He resigned in September 2014.
Carlos Arias Navarro,1st Marquess of Arias Navarro was the Prime Minister of Spain during the final years of the Francoist dictatorship and the beginning of the Spanish transition to democracy.
JoséJoaquín Moreno Verdú,known as Josico,is a Spanish retired footballer who played as a defensive midfielder,currently a manager.
The Maquis were Spanish guerrillas who waged an irregular warfare against the Francoist dictatorship within Spain following the Republican defeat in the Spanish Civil War until the early 1960s,carrying out sabotage,robberies and assassinations of alleged Francoists as well as contributing to the fight against Nazi Germany and the Vichy regime in France during World War II. They also took part in occupations of the Spanish embassy in France.
Álvaro de Figueroa y Torres,1st Count of Romanones was a Spanish politician and businessman. He served as Prime Minister three times between 1912 and 1918,president of the Senate,president of the Congress of Deputies,Mayor of Madrid and many times as cabinet minister. He belonged to the Liberal Party. Romanones,who built an extensive political network,exerted a tight control on the political life of the province of Guadalajara during much of the Restoration period. He also was a prolific writer,authoring a number of history essays.
The Leader of the Opposition is an unofficial,mostly conventional and honorary title frequently held by the leader of the largest party in the Congress of Deputies—the lower house of the Spanish parliament,the Cortes Generales—not within the government. They are usually the person who is expected to lead that party into the next general election.
Antonio Fernández Resines is a Spanish film and television actor.
Manuel Carrasco i Formiguera,was a Spanish lawyer and Christian democrat Catalan nationalist politician. His execution,by order of Francisco Franco,provoked protests from Catholic journalists such as Joseph Ageorges,the President of the International Federation of Catholic Journalists. Ageorges wrote,"Even more than the death of the Duke of Enghien stained the memory of Napoleon,the death of Carrasco has stained the reputation of Franco". Such protests,in turn,provoked the anger of the Francoist press. His funeral in Paris on 27 April 1938 was attended by many notable people,including Joan Miró,Ossorio y Gallardo,Josep M. de Sagarra,Joaquim Ventalló and Jacques Maritain and his wife Raissa.
Rodolfo Martín Villa is a Spanish engineer and politician,who served in various capacities in the cabinets of the Spanish transition to democracy,including interior minister and first deputy prime minister. He was under investigation in Argentina for aggravated homicide and crimes against humanity committed during the 1976 Vitoria massacre,and was indicted in 2021,but not found guilty in September 2022.
Juan Manuel "Juanma" Moreno Bonilla is a Spanish politician and president of the Andalusian branch of the People's Party. Since 18 January 2019,he has been the President of the Government of Andalusia. He represented the Cantabria constituency in the Spanish Congress of Deputies from 2000 to 2004 and the Málaga constituency from 2007 to 2011. He has also been a member of the Senate of Spain and Parliament of Andalusia.
Jesús Monzón Reparaz was a Spanish lawyer and communist politician. During World War II (1939–45) he helped organize Spanish members of the resistance to the Germans in France. In 1944 he organized a failed attempt to invade Francoist Spain. He was disavowed by the communist leadership in 1947 and spent many years in Spanish prisons.
Tomás Dolz de Espejo y Andréu y Muñoz Serrano y Duforq-Salinis,5th Count of La Florida (1879-1974) was a Spanish politician and businessman. For approximately 30 years he campaigned within Traditionalism and Carlism. Periodically he held regional party leadership positions,and is best known as a member of the first Junta Política and Consejo Nacional.
The Sabatébrothers Quico and Pepe were among the famed Catalan Spanish maquis and urban guerrillas of the Francoist post-Civil War period. They participated in an anarchist guerrilla vigilante group of expropriators before the war. Afterward,as maquis,they turned their focus from unlikely anarchist mass insurrection to converting others to anti-Francoism.
Manuel Pizarro Cenjor was a Spanish soldier who achieved the rank of divisional general holding the position of deputy director of the Civil Guard and other positions of responsibility in Francoist Spain.
JoséTeófilo Serrano Beltrán was a Spanish politician,civil servant and engineer who was a member of the Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE).
Luis Carlos Croissier Batista is a Spanish politician and executive. He served as Minister of Industry and Energy from 1986 to 1988.
Alberto Carlos Oliart Saussol was a Spanish politician and executive. He was a government minister three times during the Spanish transition to democracy and chairman of Spanish Radio and Television Corporation between 2009 and 2011.
Juan Carlos Campo Moreno is a Spanish judge and politician who served as minister of Justice and ex officio First Notary of the Kingdom from 2020 to 2021 and as Member of the Congress of Deputies from 2016 to 2020 representing Cádiz. Previously,he served as the 7th Secretary of State for Justice from 2009 to 2011 and as member of the General Council of the Judiciary from 2001 to 2008.
