- Ernest Lluch
Ernest Lluch Martín, (
21 January ,1937 -November 21 ,2000 ) was a Spanish economist and politician from Catalonia. He was Minister of Health and Consumption from 1982-1986 in the first post-Francisco Franco Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE) government ofFelipe González . He was assassinated in 2000 by the terrorist organisation,ETA .Lluch was born in
Vilassar de Mar , Barcelona province. He gained his doctorate in Economic Sciences at theUniversity of Barcelona , and studied further at the Sorbonne inParis . While assistant professor at the University of Barcelona, he was detained on several occasions and expelled from the University for his anti-francoist political activity. He served as professor of Economics at theUniversity of Valencia (1974) and History of Economic Doctrines of the University of Barcelona. His last official position was as Director of the Menéndez Pelayo International University in Santander, from 1989 to 1995.In April 1980 he was chosen as spokesman of the
Socialists' Party of Catalonia , PSC (the local wing of theSpanish Socialist Workers' Party , PSOE) to theSpanish Congress of Deputies , and, two years later, in the elections of October 1982, he was chosen as a deputy by the PSC representing Barcelona.Felipe González named him Minister of Health and Consumption in the first PSOE government, a position he held until 1986.In May 1986 he retired from politics to resume the chair of History of Economic Doctrines of the University of Barcelona. On January 2, 1989, he took up his position as Director of the Menéndez Pelayo International University in Santander.
He was assassinated by ETA terrorists who shot him twice in the head at his home, in 2000. At a
UEFA soccer match withClub Brugge later that week,FC Barcelona came onto the pitch wearing black armbands in honor of Lluch, who had also been a fervent supporter of the team.External links
* [http://www.bib.ub.edu/recursos-informacio/colleccions/colleccions-especials/ernest-lluch/ Special Collection: Ernest Lluch] (University of Barcelona Library)
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