Fernando Abril Martorell
{{short description|Spanish politician}}
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{{infobox officeholder
| name = Fernando Abril Martorell
| image = Fernando Abril Martorell.jpg
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| office = Second Deputy Prime Minister of Spain
Minister of Economy
| term_start = February 28, 1978
| term_end = September 9, 1980
| predecessor = Enrique Fuentes Quintana
| successor = Leopoldo Calvo-Sotelo y Bustelo
| office2 = Third Deputy Prime Minister of Spain
| term_start2 = July 5, 1977
| term_end2 = February 28, 1978
| predecessor2 = Juan-Miguel Villar Mir (1976)
| successor2 = Manuel Chaves (2009)
| office3 = Minister of Agriculture, Food and Environment
| term_start3 = 5 July 1976
| term_end3 = 6 July 1977
| predecessor3 = Virgilio Oñate Gil
| successor3 = José Enrique Martínez Genique
| birth_date = {{birth date|df=y|1936|8|31}}
| birth_place = Valencia, Spain
| death_date = {{death date and age|df=y|1998|2|16|1936|8|31}}
| occupation =
| party = UCD
| profession = Politician, agronomist
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| spouse =
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Fernando Abril Martorell (31 August 1936 – 16 February 1998) was a Spanish politician and agricultural engineer.
Biography
Born in Valencia, Spain, in 1936,{{cite web|author1=Sandra Truscott|author2=Maria J. Garcia|title=A Dictionary of Contemporary Spain|url=http://samples.sainsburysebooks.co.uk/9781136595028_sample_499003.pdf|work=Routledge|accessdate=23 April 2015|location=New York|date=1998|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20151222172835/http://samples.sainsburysebooks.co.uk/9781136595028_sample_499003.pdf|archivedate=22 December 2015}} he studied Agricultural Engineering and Political Sciences in Madrid, later obtaining a doctorate in both.{{cite book|author=Patricia Gascó Escudero|title=UCD-Valencia: Estrategias y grupos de poder político|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Fx4LYg2Lm-YC&pg=PA95|accessdate=31 December 2012|date=28 November 2011|publisher=Universitat de València|language=Spanish|isbn=978-84-370-8697-2|pages=95–96}} In 1969 he was named a president of the Diputación Provincial de Segovia (Provincial Delegation of Segovia) and was appointed a civil governor by Adolfo Suárez. After this, he was a technical director of the FORPPA (1971-1972) and a director of general Agrarian Production (1972-1974). He was appointed a Minister of Agriculture in Spain from (1976-1977), a member of the Senate (1977-1979), and he was one of the founders of Unión de Centro Democrático (Union Democratic Center) (UCD). He was elected regional president of it in Valencia Province. He was the third Vice-president of the government for Political Subjects (1977-1978) and the second vice president Minister of Economy (1978-1980). He was one of the writers of the 1978 Constitution.
Fernando Abril 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 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 in the Spanish sanitary system, particularly in Madrid.
He died in Madrid, on 16 February 1998, of lung cancer.
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Category:Politicians from Valencia
Category:Members of the 1st Congress of Deputies (Spain)
Category:20th-century Spanish engineers
Category:Deaths from lung cancer in Spain
Category:Union of the Democratic Centre (Spain) politicians
Category:Agriculture ministers of Spain
Category:Deputy prime ministers of Spain
Category:Economy and finance ministers of Spain
Category:Engineers from the Valencian Community
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