The Fathers of the Constitution ( es, Padres de la Constitución, links=no) were the seven political leaders who participated in the writing of the

Spanish Constitution of 1978 The Spanish Constitution (Spanish, Asturleonese, and gl, Constitución Española; eu, Espainiako Konstituzioa; ca, Constitució Espanyola; oc, Constitucion espanhòla) is the democratic law that is supreme in the Kingdom of Spain. It was ...

Gabriel Cisneros Gabriel Cisneros Laborda (14 August 1940 – 27 July 2007) was a Spanish attorney and politician who is mostly known for being one of the Fathers of the Spanish Constitution of 1978 He is also credited with collaborating in the writing the E ...

Miguel Herrero y Rodríguez de Miñón Miguel Herrero y Rodríguez de Miñón (born 18 June 1940) is a Spanish jurist and politician. A member of the Union of the Democratic Centre until 1982, then of People's Alliance and its successor, the People's Party, he is one of the " Fat ...

and

José Pedro Pérez Llorca José is a predominantly Spanish and Portuguese form of the given name Joseph. While spelled alike, this name is pronounced differently in each language: Spanish ; Portuguese (or ). In French, the name ''José'', pronounced , is an old vernacu ...

represented the centre-right Union of the Democratic Centre;

Manuel Fraga Iribarne Manuel Fraga Iribarne (; 23 November 1922 – 15 January 2012) was a Spanish professor and politician in Francoist Spain, who was also the founder of the People's Party. Fraga was Minister of Information and Tourism between 1962 and 1969, Ambas ...

, the right-wing People's Alliance;

Gregorio Peces-Barba Gregorio Peces-Barba (13 January 1938 – 24 July 2012) was a Spanish politician and jurist. He was one of the seven jurists who wrote the Spanish Constitution of 1978, acting as a representative of the Spanish Socialist Workers' Party. Peces- ...

, the left-wing

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;

Jordi Solé Tura Jordi Solé Tura (23 May 1930 in Mollet del Vallés – 4 December 2009 in Barcelona) was a Spanish politician, jurist and one of the co-authors and "Fathers" of the Spanish Constitution of 1978 following Spain's move to democracy.

, the

Unified Socialist Party of Catalonia The Unified Socialist Party of Catalonia ( ca, Partit Socialista Unificat de Catalunya, PSUC) was a Communism, communist political party active in Catalonia between 1936 and 1997. It was the Catalan branch of the Communist Party of Spain and the o ...

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and

Miguel Roca Junyent Miquel Roca i Junyent (Bordeaux, France, 20 April 1940) is a Spanish lawyer and politician from Democratic Convergence of Catalonia. He is one of the Fathers of the Constitution in Spain. Early life Miquel Roca i Junyent was descendant to two Ca ...

, of the Democratic Pact for Catalonia, represented the

Catalan nationalists Catalan nationalism is the ideology asserting that the Catalans are a distinct nation. Intellectually, modern Catalan nationalism can be said to have commenced as a political philosophy in the unsuccessful attempts to establish a federal state i ...

. File:(Cisneros) Leopoldo Calvo Sotelo en el pleno del Congreso de los Diputados (cropped).jpeg, Gabriel Cisneros (1940–2007) File:(Herrero de Miñón) Adolfo Suárez conversa con el ministro de Relaciones con la CEE. Pool Moncloa. 1 de octubre de 1980 (cropped).jpg, Miguel Herrero y Rodríguez de Miñón (born 1940) File:(Fraga) Felipe González recibe al presidente de Alianza Popular (cropped).jpg, Manuel Fraga Iribarne (1922–2012) File:(Pérez Llorca) Leopoldo Calvo Sotelo en el pleno del Congreso de los Diputados (cropped).jpeg, José Pedro Pérez-Llorca (1940–2019) File:(Peces-Barba) Felipe González junto al presidente del Senado y el presidente del Congreso (cropped).jpeg, Gregorio Peces-Barba (1938–2012) File:(Solé) Rosa Conde en la rueda de prensa posterior al Consejo de Ministros con el ministro de Cultura (cropped).jpeg, Jordi Solé Tura (1930–2009) File:(Roca) Felipe González recibe al presidente de la representación de la Generalitat de Catalunya en la Comisión de Cooperación Bilateral con la Administración del Estado (cropped).jpg, Miquel Roca Junyent (born 1940)

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