- Jesús Aparicio-Bernal
Jesús Aparicio-Bernal Sánchez (born in 1929 in
Madrid ) is a Spanishpolitician who began his career under the regime ofFrancisco Franco .Biography
Trained in the law, he became a representative ("procurador") to the
Cortes Generales during the Franco era, first as a trade union representative in 1955, 1958, and 1961, and forAlicante between 1967 and 1977.He was also National Director of the
Sindicato Español Universitario (SEU) in 1960. In 1963, he was designated as president of theSindicato Nacional de Prensa y Gráficas .On 26 March, 1964,
Manuel Fraga Iribarne , then Minister for Information and Tourism, appointed him as the Director General of Radio Difusión y Televisión, a position equivalent to the current Director Generalship of Corporación de Radio y Televisión Española. In this capacity, on 18 July of the same year, Aparicio-Bernal ordered the creation of the studios atPrado del Rey .After the transition to democracy, he gravitated toward the Popular Alliance, but left politics and dedicated his last years of professional activity to the world of business, as a board member of the
Empresa Nacional de Petróleos de Navarra y Aragón ,Mail Ibérica , andCelulosas de Extremadura , and as president ofAgenrop Ibérica , vice-president of thetelecommunications companyEntel , and president ofMasaveu .As an adjunct professor, he has also given classes on business law at the
Complutense University of Madrid .
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