Plácido Fernández Viagas (29 March 1924 in Tangier – 8 December 1982 in Madrid) was a Spanish politician and judge, member of the

Spanish Socialist Workers' Party of Andalusia The Spanish Socialist Workers' Party of Andalusia (, PSOE–A) is the Andalusian branch of the Spanish Socialist Workers' Party, as well as the largest and most important federation within the PSOE. Formerly known as the Andalusian Socialist Fed ...

, who was President of the pre-autonomous government of Andalusia between 1978 and 1979.

Biography

He was born on March 29, 1924, in

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, this city being administered by a treaty that made it an International Zone. He studied his bachelor's degree at the Sacred Heart School in Tangier and his law degree at the

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. He married Elisa Bartolomé, having 11 children. He practiced the judiciary in several cities, in

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and, in the Andalusian provinces of Cadiz,

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and Seville, where until April 1977 he was a judge in the litigation chamber of his Territorial Court. He was a member of Justicia Democrática, a clandestine group of civil servants who fought against the

Franco regime Francoist Spain (), also known as the Francoist dictatorship (), or Nationalist Spain () was the period of Spanish history between 1936 and 1975, when Francisco Franco ruled Spain after the Spanish Civil War with the title . After his death i ...

from within, as well as of Coordinación Democrática en Andalucía. He was suspended from his duties as a judge for a few months in 1976 for participating in a demonstration in favour of amnesty for political prisoners.

References

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