Ricardo de la Cierva y Hoces (9 November 1926 – 19 November 2015) was a Spanish historian and politician. A native of Madrid, de la Cierva served the constituency of

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in the

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and

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from 1977 to 1982. He was the

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for nine months in 1980. Originally a member of the Union of the Democratic Centre, de la Cierva switched to the

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in February 1982, later stepped down from the

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upon the end of his term in August of that year. De la Cierva won the second prize of the 1988

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, and also wrote for the magazine '' Época''. He died in 2015.Muere el historiador franquista Ricardo de la Cierva

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