Fathers of the Constitution

The Fathers of the Constitution (Spanish: Padres de la Constitución) were the seven political leaders who participated in the writing of the Spanish Constitution of 1978.

Not to be confused with Framers, Founding Fathers, or Signing of the United States Constitution.

Gabriel Cisneros, Miguel Herrero y Rodríguez de Miñón and José Pedro Pérez Llorca represented the centre-right Union of the Democratic Centre; Manuel Fraga Iribarne, the right-wing People's Alliance; Gregorio Peces-Barba, the left-wing Spanish Socialist Worker's Party; Jordi Solé Tura, the Unified Socialist Party of Catalonia / Communist Party of Spain and Miguel Roca Junyent, of the Democratic Pact for Catalonia, represented the Catalan nationalists.

  • Gabriel Cisneros (1940–2007)
  • Miguel Herrero y Rodríguez de Miñón (born 1940)
  • Manuel Fraga Iribarne (1922–2012)
  • José Pedro Pérez-Llorca (1940–2019)
  • Gregorio Peces-Barba (1938–2012)
  • Jordi Solé Tura (1930–2009)
  • Miquel Roca Junyent (born 1940)
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