Fernando Álvarez de Miranda

Fernando Álvarez de Miranda y Torres was a Spanish politician, lawyer, and university professor of Procedural Law. He was president of the Congress of Deputies from 1977 to 1979, the first after Spain's transition to democracy. From 1994 to 1999 he was Ombudsman of Spain.

Biography

Álvarez de Miranda studied law at the University of Madrid, where he later taught procedural law. Of Christian democratic and monarchist ideology, he was deported to Fuerteventura by the Francoist government for assisting to the 4th Congress of the European Movement International, celebrated in Munich in 1962. He was a member of Juan de Borbón's privy council.

Political career

During the Spanish Transition, Álvarez de Miranda founded the Christian Democratic Left, a split of the Democratic Left. The party joined several other Christian democratic parties to form the Christian Democrat Party, which was itself eventually integrated into the Union of the Democratic Centre. Álvarez de Miranda was elected to the Congress of Deputies after the 1977 Spanish general election and was President of the Congress during the Constituent Legislature. He was also Ambassador of Spain in El Salvador from 1986 to 1989 and Defender of the People of Spain from 1994 to 1999.