Office: | Minister of Information and Tourism |
Predecessor: | Adolfo Martín-Gamero |
Successor: | Office abolished |
Term Start: | 8 July 1976 |
Term End: | 5 July 1977 |
Birth Name: | Andrés Reguera Guajardo |
Birth Date: | 16 November 1930 |
Birth Place: | Segovia |
Death Place: | Madrid |
Restingplace: | Segovia |
Party: | Unión Democrática Española |
Spouse: | María Aránzazu Errasti Laveate |
Alma Mater: | Universidad Complutense de Madrid |
Nationality: | Spanish |
Andrés Reguera (16 November 1930 – 6 June 2000) was a Spanish jurist, businessman and politician who served at the Spanish Parliament. He was the minister of information and tourism between 7 July 1976 and 4 July 1977.
Reguera was born in Segovia on 16 November 1930.[1] His parents were Germán Reguera Antón and Pilar Guajardo Miñón.[1]
He was a graduate of the Complutense University of Madrid, where he received a degree in law in 1952.
Reguera was an assistant professor at his alma mater in 1957. He worked as a lawyer in Vizcaya from 1961 to 1965 and as legal advisor at the Ministry of Public Works from 1965 to 1968. He also served as the counselor of the Renfe-Operadora, a state-owned railway company, and of the Banco de Crédito Local. He was elected as a deputy in 1967 and served in the IX Legislature until 1971 representing the province of Segovia. He was re-elected for the X legislature in October 1971, and his term at the parliament ended in 1977.[1] He was the secretary general of the Catholic Association of Propagandists and part of the Unión Democrática Española, a right-wing Christian democratic political party.[2]
On 7 July 1976 Reguera was named as the minister of information and tourism and served in the first government of Adolfo Suárez.[3] He was part of the Tacito group in the cabinet along with Eduardo Carriles, Leopoldo Calvo-Sotelo, Landelino Lavilla, Enrique de la Mata, Marcelino Oreja and Alfonso Osorio.[4] Reguera reduced censorship activities which would be finalized by the Ministry of Culture in 1977.[5] He was in office until 4 July 1977.[1] Following his retirement from politics he involved in business and was the vice president of Atlético Madrid.[1]
Reguera married María Aránzazu Errasti Laveate on 16 September 1962.[1] They had five children.[1] He died in Madrid on 6 June 2000 and buried in his hometown, Segovia.[1]
Reguera received the Grand Cross of the Order of Civil Merit in 1969 and Grand Cross of the Order of Carlos III in 1977.[1]