Alberto Jarabo Payá

{{Short description|Spanish lawyer and politician (1928–2016)}}

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Alberto Jarabo Payá (born 1928 in Alcoy, Alicante, Spain – died 12 May 2016 in Valencia) was a Spanish lawyer and politician.{{Cite web |url=http://www.lasprovincias.es/interactivo/necrologicas/pop_up_necrologicas/necrologicas.php?ficha=34805.htm |title=Descanse en paz Excmo. Sr. Don Alberto Jarabo Payá |date=May 2016 |website=Las Provincias |language=es}}

After qualifying as a lawyer in 1950, Jarabo worked as a Procurator in the Francoist parliament from 1971 to 1977.[http://www.alfonselmagnanim.com/MEDIA/dicci_pol_val.pdf Dictionary of Valencian politicians 1810-2006 by Jose Piqueras] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060214063456/http://www.alfonselmagnanim.com/MEDIA/dicci_pol_val.pdf |date=2006-02-14 }} {{ISBN|978-84-95484-80-2}} With the Falange being the only legal party in the one-party state he served as the party's national director of press and radio from 1973 to 1974. The death of Franco resulted in the Spanish transition to democracy and Jarabo joined the Popular Alliance (AP). As an AP member he was elected to the Spanish Congress of Deputies representing Valencia Province in the 1977 General Election.[http://hemeroteca.lavanguardia.es/preview/1977/06/17/pagina-18/33754545/pdf.html La Vanguardia, 17 June 1977, p18 accessed 21 June 2010] He was one of those who opposed the new Spanish constitution in 1978.

In 1978 he became Minister for Tourism in the government of Valencia region under José Luis Albiñana Olmos serving until 1979. In January 1979, he announced that he was retiring from politics, for personal and professional reasons.[http://hemeroteca.abc.es/nav/Navigate.exe/hemeroteca/madrid/abc/1979/01/11/019.html Jarabo Payá no será candidato por Valencia], ABC (Madrid) 11 January 1979, p18, accessed 23 October 2012 He returned to his position as a civil servant for the Central Government of Spain (as Inspector for Labour and Social Security ) until reaching the age of 65, in 1993.