Manuel Portela Valladares

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Manuel García Prieto
Álvaro de Figueroa
Preceded byAndrés Tornos y Alonso
Succeeded byMartín Rosales y Martel
Personal details
Born(1867-01-31)31 January 1867
Pontevedra, Spain
Died29 April 1952(1952-04-29) (aged 85)
Bandol, France
Political partyParty of the Democratic Centre
Other political
affiliations
Liberal

Manuel Portela y Valladares (

Attorney General of Spain
between 1912 and 1913.

A member of the Liberal Party, he served as civil governor of Barcelona in 1910 and 1923, and as Minister of Promotion in September 1923. After the socialist revolution against the republican government in October 1934, Alejandro Lerroux named him Minister of the Interior in 1935 and named Prime Minister by Niceto Alcalá-Zamora on 14 December 1935. He formed two governments prior to the elections of 16 February 1936 that the Popular Front won.

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