Enrique Fuentes Quintana

Enrique Fuentes Quintana (1924 – 2007) was a Spanish economist, academic and politician, who served as deputy prime minister of Spain between 1977 and 1979 in the first cabinet after the Francoist State.

In this Spanish name, the first or paternal surname is Fuentes and the second or maternal family name is Quintana.

Enrique Fuentes Quintana
Second Deputy Prime Minister of Spain
In office
5 July 1977 – 25 February 1978
Prime MinisterAdolfo Suárez
Preceded byAlfonso Osorio
Succeeded byFernando Abril Martorell
Personal details
Born13 December 1924
Carrión de los Condes (Palencia), Spain
Died6 June 2007(2007-06-06) (aged 82)
Madrid, Spain
Political partyIndependent
Alma materComplutense University of Madrid

Early life and education

Quintana was born in Carrión de los Condes, Palencia, on 13 December 1924.[1] His family were mostly jurists and farmers.[2] He held a bachelor's degree in law (1948) and a PhD in political science and economics (1956), both of which he received from the University of Complutense in Madrid.[1]

Career

Quintana taught economics at different universities, namely the University of Valladolid (1956 – 1958), the University of Complutense in Madrid (1958 – 1978) and at the National University of Distance Education (UNED; 1978 – 1990).[1][3] He was one of the economists credited with the success of Spanish economy in the 1960s.[3] He served as the head of the research department at the ministry of finance.[4] He was also the editor of a reformist monthly magazine, Información Comercial Española.[4] In 1969, he became the director of the institute for fiscal studies.[5] He served as the president of the Bank of Spain.[3]

He was appointed deputy prime minister for economy to the cabinet led by Prime Minister Adolfo Suárez in 1977.[6] Quintana developed a rationalization program in 1977 which constituted the basis for Spain to have an opportunity to be granted EEC membership.[7] He was in office until 22 February 1978 when he resigned from office due to his marginalization in the cabinet.[8][9] Quintana tried to follow the promises of the structural reforms in economy which were included in the Moncloa Pacts.[10] These reforms required to reduce the production of steel and to nationalize the production of electricity among the others.[8] However, Quintana's initiatives were not backed by conservatives supporting the cabinet, leading to his resignation.[8] Fernando Abril Martorell succeeded him as deputy prime minister.[8] Quintana's resignation was one of the reasons for the cabinet to adopt much more right-wing policies.[10] After leaving office Quintana returned to teaching post and became emeritus professor at UNED.[10]

In 1989 he was awarded the Asturias Award for social sciences.[11]

Death

Quintana died of Alzheimer's disease at the age of 82 in Madrid on 6 June 2007.[2]

References
  1. "Muere Enrique Fuentes Quintana, figura clave de la Transición". El Mundo (in Spanish). Madrid. 7 June 2007. Retrieved 27 April 2013.
  2. "El mundo económico despide con elogios a Enrique Fuentes Quintana". El Diario (in Spanish). 8 June 2007. Retrieved 27 April 2013.
  3. Omar G. Encarnación (2008). Spanish Politics: Democracy After Dictatorship. Cambridge; Malden, MD: Polity Press. p. 120. ISBN 978-0-7456-3993-2.
  4. Christian Leitz; David J. Dunthorn (1999). Spain in an International Context, 1936-1959. New York: Berghahn Books. p. 316. ISBN 9781571819567.
  5. Francisco Comin (January 2006). "Reaching a political consensus for tax reform in Spain". International Studies Program. Working Papers.
  6. Joseph Harrison (October 2006). "Economic crisis and democratic consolidation in Spain, 1973-82". Working Papers in Economic History.
  7. Andrew Graham; Anthony Seldon (1991). Government and Economies in the Postwar World: Economic Policies and Comparative Performance, 1945-85. London; New York: Routledge. ISBN 9780415072885.
  8. Paul Preston (1990). The Triumph of Democracy in Spain. London: Routledge. p. 140. ISBN 9780415043144.
  9. Angel Viñas (January 1979). "Gold, the Soviet Union, and the Spanish Civil War". European History Quarterly. 9 (1): 105. doi:10.1177/026569147900900106. S2CID 144358061.
  10. Eamonn Rodgers, ed. (1999). Encyclopedia of Contemporary Spanish Culture. London: Routledge. p. 54. ISBN 9780415263535.
  11. "Enrique Fuentes Quintana. Prince of Asturias Award for social sciences 1989". Asturias Awards. Retrieved 5 March 2020.
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