Mariano Rajoy Sobredo

{{Short description|Spanish jurist and magistrate (1921–2018)}}

{{family name hatnote|Rajoy|Sobredo|lang=Spanish}}

{{Infobox officeholder

| name = Mariano Rajoy Sobredo

| image = Mariano_Rajoy_Sobredo.jpg

| birth_date = {{birth date|1921|08|28|df=y}}

| birth_place = Santiago de Compostela

| death_date = {{death date and age|2018|11|01|1921|08|28|df=y}}

| death_place = Madrid

| occupation = Jurist and magistrate

| order = President of the provincial court of Pontevedra

| term_start = 20 December 1969

| term_end = 10 January 1986

| predecessor = José Luis Bescansa y Gutiérrez de Ceballos

| successor = Félix Rodríguez García

| father = Enrique Rajoy Leloup

| mother = María de las Mercedes Sobredo Brandáriz

| spouse = {{married|Olga Brey López|1954|1993}}

| children = {{collapsible list|title=4|Mariano Rajoy Brey|María de las Mercedes Rajoy Brey|Luis Rajoy Brey|Enrique Rajoy Brey}}

| alma_mater = Universidad de Santiago de Compostela

}}

Mariano Rajoy Sobredo (28 August 1921 – 1 November 2018), was a Spanish jurist and magistrate, president of the provincial court of Pontevedra,{{cite journal |url=https://www.boe.es/boe/dias/1969/12/20/pdfs/A19845-19845.pdf |title=Decreto 3202/1969, de 11 de diciembre, por el que se nombra Presidente de la Audiencia Provincial de Pontevedra a don Mariano Rajoy Sobredo |language=es |first=Francisco |last=Franco |author-link=Francisco Franco |editor-first=Antonio María |editor-last=Oriol y Urquijo |publisher=Ministerio de Justicia |date=20 December 1969 |access-date=5 February 2019 |issue=304 |page=19845 |journal=Boletín Oficial del Estado}} and father of former Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy.{{cite news |url=https://elpais.com/politica/2018/11/01/actualidad/1541069567_072413.html |title=Muere el padre de Mariano Rajoy |language=es |first=Manuel |last=Jabois |date=1 November 2018 |access-date=5 February 2019 |newspaper=El País |publisher=Prisa |location=Madrid}}{{cite news |url=https://www.elmundo.es/espana/2018/11/01/5bdae189468aebd1548b4617.html |title=Muere el padre de Mariano Rajoy a los 97 años |language=es |first=Graciano |last=Palomo |date=1 November 2018 |access-date=5 February 2019 |newspaper=El Mundo |publisher=Unidad Editorial Información General, S.L.U. |location=Madrid}}

Born in Santiago de Compostela, he was the son of Enrique Rajoy, a Galician academic who participated in the commission that wrote the Galician Statute of Autonomy of 1936. Due to his state of health, he remained living in the presidential Palace of Moncloa during the mandate of his son, an issue that outraged part of the population because his care was borne by the palace budget.{{cite news |url=https://www.eldiario.es/politica/Rajoy-presupuestos-Moncloa-gastos-atencion_0_440956852.html |title=Mariano Rajoy carga al presupuesto de La Moncloa el cuidado de su padre |language=es |first=Gonzalo |last=Cortizo |date=14 October 2015 |access-date=5 February 2019 |newspaper=El Diario}}

After passing the state examination to the judiciary, he was appointed judge of First Instance and Instruction in Orders, La Coruña, in 1948, to be subsequently assigned to the Courts of First Instance and Instruction of Lalín, Pontevedra (1949-1953), Piedrahita, Avila (1953) -1955) and Carballiño, Orense (1955-1958). He was promoted to magistrate in 1958, was a judge of First Instance and Instruction in Oviedo until 1960, and later to León as Judge of First Instance and Instruction, staying in the capital of León for ten years.{{cite journal |url=https://www.boe.es/boe/dias/1960/10/11/pdfs/A14140-14140.pdf |title=Decreto 1871/1960, de 21 de septiembre, por el que se nombra Juez de Primera Instancia e Instrucción número 1 de León a don Mariano Rajoy Sobredo, Magistrado de ascenso |language=es |first=Francisco |last=Franco |author-link=Francisco Franco |date=11 October 1960 |access-date=5 February 2019 |editor-first=Antonio |editor-last=Iturmendi Bañales |editor-link=Antonio Iturmendi Bañales |publisher=Ministerio de Justicia |page=14140 |issue=244 |journal=Boletín Oficial del Estado}} There he coincided, among others, with the lawyer Juan Rodríguez García-Lozano, father of former President of the Government José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero. Mariano Rajoy Sobredo reached in León an outstanding reputation for the impeccable manner in which he instructed many of the cases that came to his hands.{{cite news |url=http://www.diariodeleon.es/noticias/afondo/cuando-rajoy-era-marianin_654817.html |title=Cuando Rajoy era Marianín |language=es |first=Marco |last=Romero |date=19 December 2011 |access-date=5 February 2019 |newspaper=Diario de León}} was distinguished with the Order of St. Raymond of Peñafort.{{Citation needed|date=October 2023}}