Salvador Sánchez-Terán, key politician within the Transition, dies


Sánchez-Terán, minister of the federal government of Adolfo Suárez, has died on the age of 88 The man from La Rioja lived for lengthy durations within the municipality of Ciudad Rodrigo A civil engineer, he presided over Telefónica and was common director of Renfe

On a date like New Year’s Eve the place the 12 months and the personalities who’ve handed away all through 2022 are reviewed, we proceed to satisfy individuals who add to the checklist. Salvador Sánchez-Terán, a key politician of the Spanish Transition, has died this Saturday on the age of 88, as reported by the City Council of Ciudad Rodrigo (Salamanca), a city the place he lived for lengthy durations of time.

“Ciudad Rodrigo loses one in all its greatest supporters till the final second of his life and, from his City Hall, which he visited at any time when he was in his metropolis, he desires to file the sensation of unhappiness and ache for this loss,” the consistory has indicated. it is a assertion.

Sánchez-Terán, born in Logroño in 1934, was the civil governor of Barcelona, ​​Minister of Labor and Minister of Transport and Communications with Adolfo Suárez, in addition to a deputy in Congress for Salamanca.

“Although with out denying his land in La Rioja, he at all times felt that he was a mirobrigense (title of Ciudad Rodrigo) and due to his curiosity on this municipality, he was awarded the City medal in 1976 and one in all its public roads was named after him, the promenade Salvador Sánchez-Terán”, recalled the Salamanca city council.

An engineer with a monitor file

Sánchez-Terán, who was a civil engineer, additionally held the posts of common director of Renfe and president of Telefónica, amongst others, all through his profession. In the Union of Democratic Center (UCD) he turned Secretary of Organization.

In Ciudad Rodrigo he had a residence the place he spent a number of seasons all year long, as indicated by the City Council.

“Loving Ciudad Rodrigo means feeling dedicated to its historical past, creating its current and dealing for its future,” stated Sánchez-Terán within the proclamation for the 1963 festivities entitled “The Ciudad Rodrigo that I really like.”

“In the quite a few articles that he printed, within the conferences that he gave and within the books that he wrote, he made clear his situation as a ‘man of the Spanish Transition’, as an individual who spoke out and was trustworthy to excessive democratic, social and human rules”, he recalled. City Hall.