Roberto García-Calvo Montiel (

La Bañeza La Bañeza () is a municipality located in the province of León, Castile and León, Spain. According to the 2010 census (INE), the municipality had a population of 11,050 inhabitants. It is the capital of the region of Tierra de La Bañeza. Zo ...

, 1942 -

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, 2008) was a Spanish judge. Since 2001 he has been a member of the Constitutional Court of Spain, sponsored by the

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People's Party. In the last year of the

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, García-Calvo served as a local official repressing workers strikes. During his serving in the highest court, he has been considered as part of the persistence of the shadow of

Francoism Francoist Spain ( es, España franquista), or the Francoist dictatorship (), was the period of Spanish history between 1939 and 1975, when Francisco Franco ruled Spain after the Spanish Civil War with the title . After his death in 1975, Spai ...

in the Spanish institutions. He died by natural causes on May 17, 2008 at aged 65 in

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ElPaís.com - Obituary
1942 births 2008 deaths People from La Bañeza 20th-century Spanish judges 21st-century Spanish judges {{Spain-law-bio-stub