Alberto Jarabo Payá is a Spanish

Spain

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 lawyer and politician.

After qualifying as a lawyer in 1950, Jarabo worked as a Procurator in the Francoist

Francisco Franco

Francisco Franco y Bahamonde was a Spanish general, dictator and head of state of Spain from October 1936 , and de facto regent of the nominally restored Kingdom of Spain from 1947 until his death in November, 1975...

 parliament from 1971 to 1977. With the Falange

Falange

The Spanish Phalanx of the Assemblies of the National Syndicalist Offensive , known simply as the Falange, is the name assigned to several political movements and parties dating from the 1930s, most particularly the original fascist movement in Spain. The word means phalanx formation in Spanish....

 being the only legal party in the one party state

Single-party state

A single-party state, one-party system or single-party system is a type of party system government in which a single political party forms the government and no other parties are permitted to run candidates for election...

 he served as the party's national director of press and radio from 1973 to 1974. The death of Franco resulted in the Spanish transition to democracy

Spanish transition to democracy

The Spanish transition to democracy was the era when Spain moved from the dictatorship of Francisco Franco to a liberal democratic state. The transition is usually said to have begun with Franco’s death on 20 November 1975, while its completion has been variously said to be marked by the Spanish...

 and Jarabo joined the Popular Alliance

Popular Alliance (Spain)

The People's Alliance was a electoral coalition, and later a political party, founded in 1976 by Manuel Fraga along with six other former Francoist ministers.- History :...

 (AP). As an AP member he was elected to the Spanish Congress of Deputies representing Valencia Province

Valencia (Spanish Congress Electoral District)

Valencia is one of the 52 electoral districts used for the Spanish Congress of Deputies—the lower chamber of the Spanish Parliament, the Cortes Generales. It is the third largest district in Congress in terms of the numbers of deputies elected, as it elects sixteen deputies out of the total...

 in the 1977 General Election

Spanish general election, 1977

The Spanish general election of 1977 took place on 15 June 1977. It was the first election since the death of Francisco Franco.Voting was on the basis of universal suffrage in a secret ballot. The elections were held using closed list proportional representation in 52 electoral districts...

. He was one of those who opposed the new Spanish constitution in 1978

Spanish Constitution of 1978

-Structure of the State:The Constitution recognizes the existence of nationalities and regions . Preliminary Title As a result, Spain is now composed entirely of 17 Autonomous Communities and two autonomous cities with varying degrees of autonomy, to the extent that, even though the Constitution...

.

In 1978 he became Minister for Tourism in the government of Valencia region under José Luis Albiñana Olmos

José Luis Albiñana Olmos

José Luis Albiñana Olmos is a Spanish judge and former politician in the Spanish Socialist Workers' Party .Married, with three children, Albiñana qualified as a lawyer. His first political involvement came in the late 1960s when he joined the Democratic Union of the Valencian Country...

 serving until 1979. At the 1979 General Election

Spanish general election, 1979

General elections were held in Spain on 1 March 1979.-References:* *...

he lost his seat, ending his parliamentary career.

External links

• Biography at Spanish Congress site