Licinio de la Fuente

Licinio de la Fuente y de la Fuente (7 August 1923 – 26 February 2015) was a Spanish Francoist politician who served as Minister of Labour from 1969 to 1975. Promoter of the Democracia Social party during the Spanish Transition, he was one of the "Magnificent Seven", the seven political leaders who founded the federation of People's Alliance (AP) in 1976. Biography Born on 7 August 1923 in Noez, a small village of the province of Toledo, son to staunchly Conservative family of farmers. In the midst of the Spanish Civil War, the family fled to the Francoist zone. He earned a licentiate degree in Law from the University of Madrid, later becoming a member of the State Lawyers Corps. He served as State Lawyer in Ciudad Real (1950–1954) and Segovia (1954–1956) before his appointment as Civil Governor of the province of Cáceres, where he remained for four years. National Delegate of the Instituto Nacional de Previsión from 1960 to 1963, he briefly resumed his activities as State Lawyer, this time at the Supreme Court, between 1963 and 1965. Following a spell as responsible of the National Service for Cereals and as National Delegate of Wheat, he was appointed as Minister of Labour in October 1969. He remained in the post throughout the successive appointments of Carrero Blanco and Carlos Arias Navarro as heads of government. He handed in his resignation as Minister of Labor in February 1975 after the refusal of the Government of Arias to pass a new decree for collective conflicts that intended to recognise the right of strike.