Fernando Abril Martorell

Fernando Abril Martorell
Fernando Abril Martorell
Second Deputy Prime Minister of Spain; Minister of Economy
	In office; February 28, 1978 – September 9, 1980
Preceded by	Enrique Fuentes Quintana
Succeeded by	Leopoldo Calvo-Sotelo y Bustelo
Third Deputy Prime Minister of Spain
	In office; July 5, 1977 – February 28, 1978
Preceded by	Juan-Miguel Villar Mir (1976)
Succeeded by	Manuel Chaves (2009)
Minister of Agriculture, Food and Environment
	In office; 5 July 1976 – 6 July 1977
Preceded by	Virgilio Oñate González
Succeeded by	José Enrique Martínez Genique
Personal details
Born	31 August 1936; Valencia, Spain
Died	16 February 1998 (aged 61); Madrid, Spain
Political party	UCD
Profession	Politician, agronomist

Fernando Abril Martorell (31 August 1936 – 16 February 1998) was a Valencian Spanish politician and agricultural engineer.

Biography

Born in Valencia, Spain, in 1936,[1] he studied Agricultural Engineering and Political Sciences in Madrid, later obtaining a doctorate in both.[2] In 1969 he was named president of the Diputación Provincial de Segovia (Provincial Delegation of Segovia) and was appointed civil governor by Adolfo Suárez. After this he was technical director of the FORPPA (1971-1972) and director of general Agrarian Production (1972-1974). He was appointed Minister of Agriculture in Spain from (1976-1977), a member of the Senate (1977-1979), was one of the founders of Unión de Centro Democrático (Union Democratic Center) (UCD). He was elected regional president of it in Valencia Province. He was third Vice-president of the government for Political Subjects (1977-1978) and second vice president Minister of Economy (1978-1980). He was one of the writers of the 1978 Constitution.

Fernando Abril was also president of the Naval Union of the East (controlled by the Central bank) and vice-president of the Hispanic Central bank (1991).

In June 1990, following a proposal by Felipe González, of the Commission of Analysis and Evaluation of the National System of Health, created by the Ministry of Health, he was involved in initial discussions of reforms the Spanish sanitary system particularly in Madrid.

He died in Madrid on 16 February 1998 of lung cancer.

References

Sandra Truscott; Maria J. Garcia (1998). "A Dictionary of Contemporary Spain" (PDF). Routledge. New York. Archived from the original (PDF) on 22 December 2015. Retrieved 23 April 2015.
Patricia Gascó Escudero (28 November 2011). UCD-Valencia: Estrategias y grupos de poder político (in Spanish). Universitat de València. pp. 95–96. ISBN 978-84-370-8697-2. Retrieved 31 December 2012.

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[1] Sandra Truscott; Maria J. Garcia (1998). "A Dictionary of Contemporary Spain" (PDF). Routledge. New York. Archived from the original (PDF) on 22 December 2015. Retrieved 23 April 2015.

[Escudero2011-2] Patricia Gascó Escudero (28 November 2011). UCD-Valencia: Estrategias y grupos de poder político (in Spanish). Universitat de València. pp. 95–96. ISBN 978-84-370-8697-2. Retrieved 31 December 2012.