He died the founder of the PP

Minister during the dictatorship of Francisco Franco, founder of the Popular Party and one of the parents of the current Constitution, the veteran and controversial Spanish politician Manuel Fraga Iribarne died yesterday. He was 89 years.

Fraga died at his home in Madrid, surrounded by his five children because of a respiratory infection that worsened his already delicate state of health, said a spokesman for the family to the main local media and later confirmed the popular in their own official Twitter.

"From the official of the Popular Party twitter want to send our more sense condolences to the family of don Manuel Fraga," said the pp.

Born on November 23, 1922 in Villalba, a village in the province of Lugo, in Galicia, Fraga starred in a detailed political career of 60 years and is regarded as an essential right figure Spanish.

After a brilliant University career, Fraga began to u000aoccupy intermediate positions in the Franco regime until in 1962 he was appointed Minister of information and tourism. Under his tenure, Fraga developed a press law to delete the prior censorship of information journalistic.

A gesture which was understood as a symbol of openness by Franco. However, his most important decision was the Spain become the destination of Middle Europe.

Father of the famous claim "Spain is different!" (!(Spain is different!) ", Fraga opened the Spanish coast visitors foreigners.

After the death of Franco in 1975, Fraga resumed the political pulse. In the Government that preceded democracy, with the King Juan Carlos de Borbón as head of State, he held the Vice-Presidency and the Ministry of the Interior.

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