32 Facts About Manuel Fraga

Manuel Fraga was a Member of the Congress of Deputies and a Senator.

Manuel Fraga served as the President of the Regional Government of Galicia from 1990 to 2005 and as a Senator until November 2011.

Manuel Fraga married Carmen Estevez Eguiagaray, whom he had met in 1945 in the Faculty of Law, on 17 January 1948.

Manuel Fraga started in the Franco cabinet in 1962 as Minister of Information and tourism.

Manuel Fraga authorized the execution of political prisoners under the Francoist State.

Manuel Fraga telephoned Ruano's father and threatened to arrest his other daughter, Margot, who was an anti-Francoist, unless she immediately stopped her activism.

The then-director of Spanish newspaper ABC, Torcuato Luca de Tena, later confessed that Manuel Fraga ordered him to publish a manipulated copy of Ruano's personal diary in order to present Ruano as a mentally unstable person who killed himself.

Later in the decade, Manuel Fraga established himself as one of the more prominent members of a reformist faction in the government who favoured opening up the government from above.

Manuel Fraga introduced an a posteriori censorship law, which was based on lifting pre-publication censorship and a reduction in its strictness.

In 1973, Manuel Fraga, accepted a proposal by Foreign Minister Laureano Lopez Rodo to become Ambassador to the United Kingdom, under the conditions of the stint no being longer then 2 years, having the ability to appoint a counsellor and a press officer and not being excessively constrained by the Francoist administration.

Manuel Fraga wanted to finish a book titled La Espana de los 70.

Manuel Fraga was known to be an admirer of Antonio Canovas del Castillo.

Manuel Fraga was one of the writers of the new Spanish constitution approved in 1978.

Manuel Fraga was reckoned as the Leader of the Opposition to the PSOE government.

Manuel Fraga was subject to a scandal in 1983, when it was reported that Rodolfo Almiron, a former Argentine national police officer leader of the Triple A, a far-right death squad in Argentina, had become chief of his personal security team.

Manuel Fraga served as member of the European Parliament until 1989.

Later in the same year, Manuel Fraga encouraged the election of Jose Maria Aznar as the party's new president.

Manuel Fraga was then appointed as honorary president of the PP.

Manuel Fraga returned to his Galician homeland in 1989, and following the results of the 1989 regional election, with the People's Party in Galicia winning a simple majority in the regional parliament, he became President of the Xunta of Galicia.

Manuel Fraga remained in charge for almost 15 years until 2005, when the PPdeG lost its overall majority.

Manuel Fraga saw his credibility damaged in late 2002, when the oil tanker ship Prestige sank off the Galician coast.

Manuel Fraga was said to have been slow to react and unable, or unwilling, to handle the situation.

Manuel Fraga remained on the political scene from Galicia, as a member of the Senate representing the Parliament of Galicia.

Manuel Fraga was designated as member of the Senate by the Parliament of Galicia in 2006.

Manuel Fraga died on 15 January 2012 of a respiratory disease.

Manuel Fraga's funeral was attended by Prince Felipe and Princess Letizia.

Manuel Fraga was one of the writers of the democratic constitution and spent part of his political career lessening the censorship law during the latter years of the Francoist State.

Manuel Fraga was renowned for his temper tantrums in public at not being referred to or addressed as Don Manuel.

Manuel Fraga was probably one of the most important and yet controversial politicians in modern Spain.

Manuel Fraga built great roads and motorways and in 2000, he approved the Galician Plan to build Spain's first high speed bullet train.

Manuel Fraga was a keen follower of Carl Schmitt's ideas, and granted the German political theorist honorary membership to the Institute of Political Studies in 1962, in a ceremony where he praised him as a "revered master".

In 1962, a satirical magazine Ley Manuel Fraga was launched in Barcelona which was named after him.