Antonio García-Trevijano

Antonio García-Trevijano Forte (born 18 July 1927 in Granada) is a Spanish republican, a political activist, and an author. He is married with two children. He was Professor of Commercial Law at the University of Granada and a notary, and worked as an attorney in Madrid since 1960.

A republican from his youth, son of a property registar who was a member of the Fernández de los Ríos republican party, he was active in the democratic opposition to Francisco Franco's dictatorship.

In 1967, he was the organizer of a clandestine meeting of the illegal union called Workers' Commissions (Spanish: Comisiones Obreras, CCOO) at the factory Sox Vilma (Plaza de Castilla) held to plan the strike of October 1967.

In March 1968, he was the organizer of a debate on Jean-Jacques Servan-Schreiber’s book Le Défi Américain ("The American Challenge", 1968) at the Hotel Melia in Madrid. He gathered two thousand people and made a demonstration of freedom against Franco’s dictatorship two months before the student revolts that broke out in Paris in May 68. That same year, he helped organize and direct the independence of Equatorial Guinea, for which he drafted a democratic constitution. His constitution never came into force because the Francoist government imposed a constitution written by Miguel Herrero y Rodríguez de Miñón, under which Francisco Macías Nguema was proclaimed president for life.

In 1974 he organized meetings in Paris between Don Juan de Borbón and the republican groups plus the publishing group Ruedo Ibérico, in which the legitimate heir to the Spanish throne expressed his rejection of Franco's decree appointing his son Juan Carlos as his successor. That same year García-Trevijano organised and coordinated the political party Junta Democrática de España ("Democratic Junta of Spain"), writing all their manifestos and founding a hundred local and provincial boards throughout Spain. He gave the keynote address of the Democratic Junta at the European Parliament in Strasbourg.

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