Adolfo Suárez Illana

Adolfo Suárez Illana
Born (1964-05-05) 5 May 1964
Madrid, Spain
Nationality Spanish
Alma mater University CEU San Pablo
Harvard University
Occupation politician, lawyer, author, bullfighting
Spouse(s) Isabel Flores Santos-Suárez[1]
Children Adolfo
Pablo
Parent(s) Adolfo Suárez González
María Amparo Illana Elórtegui

Adolfo Suárez Illana (born 5 May 1964) is a Spanish politician, lawyer, author and aficionado-practitioner of bullfighting.[2][3]

Biography

He is the eldest son of the late Adolfo Suárez González, 1st Duke of Suárez, Spain's first democratically elected Prime Minister after the 1975 transition to democracy.

He studied at the University CEU San Pablo in Madrid and then Harvard in the United States.

In 1990 he published his first collection of poetry titled Sueños.[4] He worked at the Banco Popular from 1990 to 1993.

In 1998 he founded the Madrid law firm "Suárez & Illana S.L." and he married Isabel Flores Santos-Suárez, daughter of the famous breeder of Spanish fighting bulls, Samuel Flores López-Flores[5] and his wife Isabel Santos-Suárez Barroso. The couple have two sons, Adolfo Suárez Flores and Pablo Suárez Flores.[6]

In 2002 he was chosen by José María Aznar as the People's Party (PP) candidate for the post of Premier of the Autonomous Community of Castile-La Mancha, but lost against the incumbent José Bono, of the Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE).

Shortly after his father's death in 2014, it was reported that in 2009 Adolfo Suárez Illana had unsuccessfully asked King Juan Carlos I to make him heir to the title of Duke of Suárez, which, by the law of succession to noble titles as amended in 2006, was then due to be inherited by his niece Alejandra Suárez Romero, daughter of Mariam Suárez Illana, the eldest child of Adolfo Suárez González.[7] Although he had little or no interest in the title himself, he had depositions from five witnesses stating that this was his father's repeatedly stated wish until Alzheimer's disease made him unable to express his wishes.[7]

References

  1. ↑ "Surez, peligrosa alternativa". El Mundo. Retrieved 3 January 2015.
  2. ↑ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2009-03-13. Retrieved 2009-03-16.
  3. ↑ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2009-03-18. Retrieved 2009-03-16.
  4. ↑ "Políticos novelistas". Retrieved 3 January 2015.
  5. ↑ "Boda de Samuel Flores Santos-Suárez, hijo del prestigioso ganadero Samuel Flores, con Olga Payá Catarineu". us.hola.com. Retrieved 3 January 2015.
  6. ↑ Hola Archived December 11, 2008, at the Wayback Machine.
  7. 1 2 Juan Carlos Escudier (11 March 2014). "El hijo de Suárez pidió en 2009 al rey que le diera el título de duque de su padre y se lo quitara a su sobrina". Público. Retrieved 21 March 2014.
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