Juan Hormaechea Cazón (5 June 1939 – 1 December 2020) was a Spanish

politician A politician is a person active in party politics, or a person holding or seeking an elected office in government. Politicians propose, support, reject and create laws that govern the land and by an extension of its people. Broadly speaking ...

who served as President of Cantabria between 1987 and 1990, and again from 1991 to 1995. He was also Mayor of Santander between 1977 and 1987. Hormaechea founded the

Union for the Progress of Cantabria The Union for the Progress of Cantabria ( es, Unión para el Progreso de Cantabria, UPCA) was a political party in the Spanish Spanish might refer to: * Items from or related to Spain: **Spaniards are a nation and ethnic group indigenous to Spa ...

(UPCA) political party in 1991 after a split from the larger

People's Party of Cantabria The People's Party of Cantabria ( es, Partido Popular de Cantabria, PP) is the regional section of the People's Party of Spain (PP) in Cantabria Cantabria (, also , , Cantabrian: ) is an autonomous community in northern Spain with Santand ...

(PP). The UPCA dissolved in 2003. On 24 October 1994 the

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condemned him to 6 years and one day in prison and 14 years of disqualification for a crime of embezzlement and another of prevarication. He never entered jail because he was pardoned by

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Felipe González Felipe González Márquez (; born 5 March 1942) is a Spanish lawyer, professor, and politician, who was the Secretary-General of the Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE) from 1974 to 1997, and the 3rd Prime Minister of Spain since the ...

in 1995.

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