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Luis Uruñuela Fernández (born 2 April 1937) is a Spanish former politician of the
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(PA). He was elected to the
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in 1979, serving for only two months before leaving to be the first democratically elected mayor of
Seville Seville (; es, Sevilla, ) is the capital and largest city of the Spanish autonomous community of Andalusia and the province of Seville. It is situated on the lower reaches of the River Guadalquivir, in the southwest of the Iberian Peninsula ...
. Uruñuela was a proponent of the
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, which saw much construction during his mandate. From 1983, his successor Manuel del Valle and the President of the Junta of Andalusia
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– both of the
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(PSOE) – halted the project. In May 2009, Uruñuela, Del Valle and
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received Seville's medal for being the first three democratic mayors of the city. He used his speech to reiterate his support for expanding the Metro into the
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. He had four daughters and a son. His first daughter, María José, died suddenly at the age of 46 in January 2012.


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{{DEFAULTSORT:Urunuela, Luis 1937 births Living people Politicians from Seville Members of the 2nd Congress of Deputies (Spain) Mayors of Seville