Federico Trillo

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1952 –

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Who is Federico Trillo?

Federico Trillo-Figueroa Martínez-Conde is a Spanish politician belonging to the People's Party. His father, also named Federico Trillo, was a politician during the dictatorship of Francisco Franco.

He has a bachelors degree in law from the University of Salamanca and a juris doctor from the Complutense University of Madrid. He is married with five children.

After finishing first in his class, Trillo entered into the Navy's judicial body in 1974 where he was placed in the prosecutor's office of the Maritime Zone of the Mediterranean, then later in the Directorship of Military Naval Construction. In 1979, he served as the opposition for the Lawyer Corps of the State Council. He retired as commander in 1989 to enter politics.

In 1983 he entered the judicial cabinet of the Coalición Popular, then headed by Manuel Fraga Iribarne, where he actively participated in the restructuring of the party, refashioning it as the People's Party. He has been a member of the national executive since 1986.

Trillo has been an elected deputy for the province of Alicante since 1989. From 1989 and 1996, he was vice-president of the Congress of Deputies. On March 27, 1996, he was named president of the Congress of Deputies, a position he maintained until the end of the sixth legislature in 2000. On April 27, 2000, Prime Minister José María Aznar named him Minister of Defense for Aznar's second government.

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Born
May 23, 1952
Spain
Nationality
  • Spain
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on July 23, 2013

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