Jesús Aparicio-Bernal

Jesús Aparicio-Bernal Sánchez (born in 1929 in Madrid) is a Spanish politician who began his career under the regime of Francisco 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 for Alicante 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 the Sindicato 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 at Prado 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, and Celulosas de Extremadura, and as president of Agenrop Ibérica, vice-president of the telecommunications company Entel, and president of Masaveu.

As an adjunct professor, he has also given classes on business law at the Complutense University of Madrid.