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Leopoldo Calvo Sotelo

The Most Excellent
The Marquis of the Ría of Ribadeo
GE
Visita de Leopoldo Calvo-Sotelo a El Puerto de Santa María (centered).jpg
Prime Minister of Spain
In office
25 February 1981 – 1 December 1982
Monarch Juan Carlos I
Deputy Rodolfo Martín Villa
Juan Antonio García Díez
Preceded by Adolfo Suárez
Succeeded by Felipe González
Second Deputy Prime Minister of Spain
In office
9 September 1980 – 25 February 1981
Prime Minister Adolfo Suárez
Preceded by Fernando Abril Martorell
Succeeded by Juan Antonio García Díez
Minister of Economy
In office
9 September 1980 – 25 February 1981
Prime Minister Adolfo Suárez
Preceded by Fernando Abril Martorell
Succeeded by José Luis Leal Maldonado
Minister for Relations with the European Communities
In office
25 February 1978 – 9 September 1980
Prime Minister Adolfo Suárez
Preceded by Office created
Succeeded by Eduardo Punset
Minister of Public Works
In office
4 July 1976 – April 1977
Prime Minister Adolfo Suárez
Preceded by Antonio Valdés
Succeeded by Luis Ortiz González
Minister of Commerce
In office
13 December 1975 – 6 July 1976
Prime Minister Carlos Arias Navarro
Preceded by José Luis Cerón Ayuso
Succeeded by José Lladó
Personal details
Born Leopoldo Ramón Pedro Calvo-Sotelo y Bustelo
(1926-04-14)14 April 1926
Madrid, Spain
Died 3 May 2008(2008-05-03) (aged 82)
Pozuelo de Alarcón, Spain
Resting place Ribadeo Cemetery, Galicia, Spain
Nationality Spanish
Political party FET y de las JONS
(1954-1977)
Union of the Democratic Centre
(1977-1983)
Spouse(s) María del Pilar Ibáñez-Martín Mellado
Children Leopoldo (b. 1957)
Juan (b. 1958)
María del Pilar (b. 1959)
Pedro (b. 1960)
Víctor María (b. 1961)
José María (b. 1964)
Andrés (b. 1965)
Pablo (b. 1965)
Religion Roman Catholicism

Leopoldo Ramón Pedro Calvo-Sotelo y Bustelo, 1st Marquis of the Ría of Ribadeo, GE (Spanish pronunciation: [leoˈpoldo ˈkalβosoˈtelo i βusˈtelo]; 14 April 1926 – 3 May 2008), known as Leopoldo Calvo-Sotelo was Prime Minister of Spain between 1981 and 1982.

Calvo-Sotelo was born into a prominent political family in Madrid on 14 April 1926 with his father, Leopoldo Calvo Sotelo, as the writer and his mother, Mercedes Bustelo Márquez. His uncle, José Calvo Sotelo, was the finance minister under Miguel Primo de Rivera. Calvo-Sotelo graduated as a civil engineer from the School of Civil Engineers of Madrid now part of the Technical University of Madrid, working in the area of applications of chemistry to the industry.

He was the president of RENFE (the Spanish national railroad network) between 1967 and 1968. Calvo-Sotelo was elected solicitor (Deputy) of Franco's Cortes, representing industrialists in the Union of Chemical Industries, in 1971. A monarchist, Sotelo was one of the founders of an association of politicians, mostly of Rightists and Center Rightists, which disguised as the Fedisa publishing firm helped Spain's peaceful transition into democracy.

Calvo-Sotelo was designated Minister of Commerce by Carlos Arias Navarro to be in the first government of the Monarchy (December 1975 – July 1976). He advocated total destruction of Franco's ideals instead of mere superficial changes that politicians like Navarro planned. Calvo-Sotelo was kept in the cabinet of Adolfo Suárez upon his succession to premiership in 1976 and directed several centre-right and centre-left political associations into one party, the Union of the Democratic Centre (UCD). The UCD won in both the June 1977 and the March 1979 elections and Calvo-Sotelo was elected MP for Madrid.


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