Leopoldo Calvo-Sotelo

The Most Excellent

Leopoldo Calvo-Sotelo
The Marquis of the Ría of Ribadeo

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The Most Excellent; Leopoldo Calvo-Sotelo ; The Marquis of the Ría of Ribadeo ; GE
Prime Minister of Spain
	In office; 25 February 1981 – 1 December 1982
Monarch	Juan Carlos I
Deputy	Rodolfo Martín Villa; Juan Antonio García Díez
Preceded by	Adolfo Suárez
Succeeded by	Felipe González
Second Deputy Prime Minister of Spain
	In office; 9 September 1980 – 25 February 1981
Prime Minister	Adolfo Suárez
Preceded by	Fernando Abril Martorell
Succeeded by	Juan Antonio García Díez
Minister of Public Works
	In office; 4 July 1976 – April 1977
Prime Minister	Adolfo Suárez
Preceded by	Antonio Valdés González-Roldán
Succeeded by	Carlos Pérez de Bricio Olarriaga (acting)
Minister of Commerce
	In office; 13 December 1975 – 6 July 1976
Prime Minister	Carlos Arias Navarro
Preceded by	José Luis Cerón Ayuso
Succeeded by	José Lladó Fernández-Urrutia
Member of the Congress of Deputies for Madrid
	In office; 28 July 1983 – 23 April 1986
	In office; 15 June 1977 – 31 August 1982
Member of the European Parliament for Spain
	In office; 1 January 1986 – 10 June 1987
Personal details
Born	Leopoldo Ramón Pedro Calvo-Sotelo y Bustelo; 14 April 1926; Madrid, Spain
Died	3 May 2008 (aged 82); Pozuelo de Alarcón, Madrid, Spain
Resting place	Ribadeo Cemetery, Galicia, Spain
Nationality	Spanish
Political party	UCD
Spouse(s)	María del Pilar Ibáñez-Martín Mellado
Children	Leopoldo (b. 1957); Juan (b. 1958); María del Pilar (b. 1959); Pedro (b. 1960); Víctor María (b. 1961); José María (b. 1964); Andrés (b. 1965); Pablo(b. 1965)

Leopoldo Ramón Pedro Calvo-Sotelo y Bustelo, 1st Marquis of the Ría of Ribadeo, Grandee of Spain (Spanish pronunciation: [leoˈpoldo ˈkalβosoˈtelo i βusˈtelo]; 14 April 1926 – 3 May 2008) was a Spanish politician. He was the prime minister during the end of Francisco Franco's dictatorship in Spain.

He died of cardiac arrest at his home in Pozuelo de Alarcón, Madrid, aged 82.^[1]