- Fernando Abril Martorell
Fernando Abril Martorell (
August 31 1936 -February 16 1998 ) was a Spanishpolitician and agricultural engineer.Biography
Born in
Valencia, Spain , he studied Agricultural Engineering andPolitical Sciences inMadrid , later obtaining a doctorate in both. In 1969 he was named president of the Diputación Provincial de Segovia (Provincial Delegation of Segovia) and was appointed civil governor ofAdolph 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 inValencia 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 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 of 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 in 1998 of
lung cancer .
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