Eduardo Carriles
Minister of Finance
In office
7 July 1976 – 4 July 1977
Prime MinisterAdolfo Suárez
Personal details
Born28 November 1923
Santander, Spain
Died12 January 2020(2020-01-12) (aged 96)
Madrid, Spain
Political partyUnión Democrática Española
Spouse
Carola Díaz de Bustamante
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(m. 1950)​
Children8

Eduardo Carriles (1923–2020) was a Spanish lawyer, businessman and politician who served as the minister of finance between 1976 and 1977.

Biography

Carriles was born in Santander on 28 November 1923.[1] He was a lawyer by profession.[1] He served as the general secretary of a company, Aeronáutica Industrial, and director of various other companies.[1] Carriles was part of the reformist Tácito group, but he left the group with others to establish the Unión Democrática Española.[2]

Carriles was part of the Unión when he was appointed minister of finance to the cabinet led by Adolfo Suárez on 7 July 1976.[1][3] In the cabinet Carriles and other ministers, including Leopoldo Calvo Sotelo, Andrés Reguera, Landelino Lavilla, Enrique de la Mata, Marcelino Oreja and Alfonso Osorio, were called Tácito group due to their previous involvement in the movement.[4] Like previous finance ministers Carriles could not manage to reduce economic crisis experienced in Spain in the period 1973–1977.[5] His term as minister of finance ended on 4 July 1977.[6]

Carriles married Carola Díaz de Bustamante in 1950, and they had eight children.[1] He was the recipient of Knight Grand Cross of the Order of Charles III.[6] He died on 12 January 2020.[6] The funeral was held in the Church of San Francisco de Borja, Madrid, on 6 February.[6]

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 "Eduardo Carriles Galarraga". El Pais (in Spanish). 7 July 1976. Retrieved 27 October 2021.
  2. ↑ Charles T. Powell (1990). "The "Tacito" group and the transition to democracy, 1973-1977". In Frances Lannon; Paul Preston (eds.). Élites and Power in Twentieth-Century Spain. Oxford: Clarendon Press. pp. 265–266. ISBN 978-0198228806.
  3. ↑ Harry Debelius (8 July 1976). "No political shadings among members of Spain's new Cabinet". The Times. No. 59750. Madrid. Retrieved 11 December 2023.
  4. ↑ Maria Cristina Palomares (2002). The quest for survival after Franco: The moderate Francoists' slow journey to the polls (1964-1977) (PhD thesis). London School of Economics. p. 296. Archived from the original on 15 July 2021.
  5. ↑ Joseph Harrison; David Corkill (2016). Spain: A Modern European Economy. London; New York: Routledge. p. 14. ISBN 978-1-317-05167-1.
  6. 1 2 3 4 "Además fue Abogado del Estado y ministro de Hacienda en el Gobierno de Adolfo Suárez". Cope. 17 January 2020. Retrieved 27 October 2021.
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