Rodolfo Martín Villa
| Rodolfo Martín Villa | |
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| First Deputy Prime Minister of Spain | |
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In office 1 December 1981 – 28 July 1982 |
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| Prime Minister | Leopoldo Calvo-Sotelo |
| Preceded by | Manuel Gutiérrez Mellado |
| Succeeded by | Alfonso Guerra |
| Minister of Interior | |
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In office 5 July 1976 – 6 April 1979 |
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| Prime Minister | Adolfo Suárez |
| Preceded by | Manuel Fraga Iribarne |
| Succeeded by | Antonio Ibáñez Freire |
| Minister of Labor | |
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In office 12 December 1975 – 5 July 1976 |
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| Prime Minister | Carlos Arias Navarro |
| Personal details | |
| Born |
3 October 1934 León, Spain |
| Nationality | Spanish |
| Political party |
Union of the Democratic Centre (until 1983) People's Party |
Rodolfo Martín Villa (born 3 October 1934) is a Spanish engineer and politician, who served in various capacities in cabinets of the Spanish transition to democracy, including interior minister and first deputy prime minister.
Villa was born in Leon on 3 October 1934. He holds a university degree in engineering.
Villa is an industrial engineer and tax inspector by profession. In February 1962 he became the head of the SEU, the university syndicate of the Spanish Falange movement. He replaced Jesus Aparicio Bernal in the post. Villa's tenure ended in December 1964 and Daniel Regalado assumed the post.
He was a member of the Union of the Democratic Centre. He was the civil governor of Barcelona until his appointment as minister of labor in 1975. His tenure as labor minister lasted until 1976.
He was appointed interior minister in the first cabinet of Adolfo Suárez on 5 July 1976, succeeding Manuel Fraga Iribarne as interior minister. Villa won a seat in the first democratic elections of Spain since 1936 held on 15 June 1977 for the UCD, representing León province. Following the election he retained his post as interior minister and he was responsible for internal security, local administration and also, civil rights. He also tried to institutionalize certain reforms about these issues, but he could not manage to realize the reformation of the Spanish police due to the intervention of Spanish army. On 6 April 1979, Villa's term as interior minister ended and he was replaced by Antonio Ibáñez Freire in the post.
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