Miguel Herrero y Rodríguez de Miñón

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ConstituencyMadrid
BornMiguel Herrero y Rodríguez de Miñón
(1940-06-18) 18 June 1940 (age 85)
Madrid, Spain
PartyUCD (until 1982)
AP (1982–1989)
PP (1989–2004)
Spouse
Cristina Jáuregui Segurola
(m. 1975; died 2015)
Miguel Herrero de Miñón
In 2015
Member of the Congress of Deputies
In office
15 June 1977  6 June 1993
ConstituencyMadrid
Personal details
BornMiguel Herrero y Rodríguez de Miñón
(1940-06-18) 18 June 1940 (age 85)
Madrid, Spain
PartyUCD (until 1982)
AP (1982–1989)
PP (1989–2004)
Spouse
Cristina Jáuregui Segurola
(m. 1975; died 2015)

Miguel Herrero y Rodríguez de Miñón[n. 1] (born 18 June 1940) is a Spanish jurist and politician. A member of the Union of the Democratic Centre until 1982, then of People's Alliance and its successor, the People's Party,[1] he is one of the "Fathers of the Constitution", the seven legislators who participating in the draft of the Spanish constitutional text passed in 1978.

Self-described as an "españolista de la España Grande"[2] (roughly "spanishist of the Great Spain"), Herrero de Miñón has been placed as representative of a fringe strand of nationalism advocate of neoforalism within the Spanish conservative spectrum.[3]

Son of high school professor and hispanist Miguel Herrero García, he studied law in Madrid, where, as he says in his Memoirs of Summer, he was "more studious than a student".[4] After graduating in 1961, he earned his doctorate in 1965 with a thesis on the Constitutional Law that emerged after decolonization. He completed his training at Oxford, in Paris and in Louvain, where he graduated in Philosophy in 1968. A lawyer with the Council of State since 1966, he soon began to collaborate with the press -Diario Ya, Diario Madrid, Informaciones-, spreading his ideas about what the transition to the death of Francisco Franco should be.[5]

In 1975, he married Cristina Jáuregui Segurola, daughter of Ramón Jáuregui Epalza and M.ª Luisa Segurola Guereca. They remained married until her death from an unspecified illness in 2015.[6]

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