Daniel de Fernando

Daniel de Fernando (February 12, 1938 – March 7, 2019) was a Spanish pharmacist and politician who served as a Deputy and as President of Ávila province.

Early life

He was born on February 12, 1938, depending on the sources either in Arenas de San Pedro1 or in Guisando, both towns belonging to the province of Ávila.

A pharmacist by profession, he presided over the Association of Pharmacists of Ávila. From the Popular Party, he was a close collaborator and strong man of Adolfo Suárez (also from Ávila), where he was in charge of organizing the Union. of Democratic Center. He was deputy for Avila in the constituent legislature in the parliamentary group of UCD.5 Member of the General Council of Castilla y León in the preautonomic period.9 After the municipal elections of 1979 he became president of the Diputación Provincial de Ávila, 10 resigning in October 1982.11 Later he was a procurator in the first legislature of the Cortes of Castilla y León, as well as the II. Candidate in the municipal of 1987 by the Democratic and Social Center ( CDS), would repeat in the position of president of the deputation between 1987 and 1991. Later it would impel the constitution of the "Independent Agrupación de Ávila" together with Jos Maria Monforte.

He died in March 2019 in Ávila, at 81 years of age.

Enrique Berzal highlights Daniel de Fernando's most important efforts at the head of the provincial corporation: the construction of roads, the extension of the canalization of water to a greater number of localities, the acquisition of Torreón de Lozoya and the creation of the Santa Cultural Foundation Teresa.