Luis Alberto Aguiriano | |
Office1: | Member of the Congress of Deputies |
Term Start1: | 15 July 1986 |
Term End1: | 18 January 2000 |
Constituency1: | Álava |
Office2: | Member of the Senate |
Term Start2: | 18 November 1982 |
Term End2: | 14 July 1986 |
Constituency2: | Álava |
Term Start3: | 15 June 1977 |
Term End3: | 2 January 1979 |
Constituency3: | Álava |
Birth Name: | Luis Alberto Aguiriano Forniés |
Birth Date: | 1 April 1940 |
Birth Place: | Vitoria, Spain |
Death Place: | Vitoria-Gasteiz, Spain |
Party: | PSOE |
Relatives: | José Antonio Aguiriano (brother) |
Luis Alberto Aguiriano Forniés (1 April 1940 – 23 June 2019[1]) was a Spanish socialist politician. He served as a senator from 1977 to 1979[2] and from 1982 to 1986,[3] as well as a member of the Congress of Deputies from 1986 to 2000.[4]
He was born in Vitoria to a left-wing family which took part in the clandestine reorganization of the Álava branch of the Spanish Socialist Workers' Party during the Francoist dictatorship.[5] José Antonio Aguiriano, who would also become a politician, was his older brother. He was a founding member of the, an underground students' union; this led to him being arrested and imprisoned in Bilbao. He was elected to the Senate in the 1977 election, and again in 1982. In 1986 he was elected to the Congress of Deputies, where he served until 2000. He died in Vitoria-Gasteiz on 23 June 2019.[1]