Joaquín Abril Martorell
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, 1928) is a Spanish politician who currently belongs to the People's Party
People's Party (Spain)
The People's Party is a conservative political party in Spain.The People's Party was a re-foundation in 1989 of the People's Alliance , a party led and founded by Manuel Fraga Iribarne, a former Minister of Tourism during Francisco Franco's dictatorship...
(PP), although he has been a member of several other parties in the past.
An aeronautic engineer, Abril joined the Union of the Democratic Centre (UCD) which formed the Spanish government from 1977 to 1982. He took part in its campaign in the 1979 General Election
Spanish general election, 1979
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in Valencia Province, in which his brother Fernando Abril Martorell
Fernando Abril Martorell
Fernando Abril Martorell was a Valencian Spanish politician and agricultural engineer.-Biography:Born in Valencia, Spain, he studied Agricultural Engineering and Political Sciences in Madrid, later obtaining a doctorate in both...
was re-elected as MP. After the UCD disbanded following the poor result in the 1982 General Election
Spanish general election, 1982
General elections were held in Spain on 28 October 1982.PSOE and PSC presented two different lists of candidates: with the PSOE contesting most of Spain and the PSC only standing in Catalonia...
he joined the Democratic and Social Centre (CDS). At the 1986 General Election
Spanish general election, 1986
General elections were held in Spain on 23 June 1986. In this election, the Communist Party of Spain merged with other minor left parties to form the coalition Izquierda Unida; in Catalonia they ran as the Catalan Left Union. Similarly, the People's Alliance merged with two other conservative...
he was chosen to head the CDS list for Valencia province
Valencia (Spanish Congress Electoral District)
Valencia is one of the 52 electoral districts used for the Spanish Congress of Deputies—the lower chamber of the Spanish Parliament, the Cortes Generales. It is the third largest district in Congress in terms of the numbers of deputies elected, as it elects sixteen deputies out of the total...
, though this proved controversial as the decision was made by the National Electoral Committee of the party but was opposed by the local branch
Despite this, he was elected to the national parliament. He was re-elected at the 1989 General Election
Spanish general election, 1989
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but like the other 16 CDS Members of Parliament, lost his seat at the 1993 General Election
Spanish general election, 1993
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. He then joined the PP and following the PP victory in the 1996 General Election
Spanish general election, 1996
General elections were held in Spain on March 3, 1996. The Prime Minister Felipe González of Spanish Socialist Workers' Party lost the elections to Partido Popular and their leader José María Aznar....
he was named Secretary of State for Transport and Infrastructure serving until September 1998. He has two sons; Joaquin and Miguel.