José Antonio Girón
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José Antonio Girón de Velasco (28 August 1911,
He began his political activities during his university studies in
Throughout Francoism, Girón was one of the leaders of Falange and he increasingly showed his dissent, according to the Falangist principles, to many policies of the regime. Notably, he was strongly opposed to opportunism. He yearned for the Falangist 'pending revolution', as Primo de Rivera's ideas just inspired a few policies but Francoism was not really an actual Falangist regime, but a consensus of rightist and authoritarian tendencies. After Franco's death, both he and Blas Piñar were the natural leaders of the "Bunker" in the Cortes Españolas, and voted against the Political Reform Act of 1976 that allowed the transition to democracy.
Girón died on 22 August 1995.[1]
References
- ^ Preston, Paul (28 August 1995). "José Antonio Girón de Velasco: Fascist to the last". The Guardian. p. 9.
Bibliography
- Bardavío, Joaquín; Sinova, Justino: Todo Franco: franquismo y antifranquismo de la A a la Z, Barcelona: Plaza & Janés, 2000
- Girón, José Antonio: Si la memoria no me falla, Barcelona: Planeta (memoir)
- Payne, Stanley: The Franco regime, 1936-1975, Madison, Wisconsin: University of Wisconsin Press, 1987
- Preston, Paul: Franco: a Biography, New York: BasicBooks, 1993
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