Fathers of the Constitution

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

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.[1]

* 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)

## See also

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* Spanish transition to democracy
* Spanish Constitution of 1978

## References

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1. ^ "Los padres de la Constitución de 1978" [The fathers of the 1978 constitution]. El País (in Spanish). 2003-10-16.