Joaquín Ruiz-Giménez

Who is Joaquín Ruiz-Giménez?

Joaquín Ruiz-Giménez Cortés was a Spanish politician and jurist. He was minister of Education under Franco but he drifted apart from the regime since 1956 and, adopting a Christian Democrat position, steadily started to promote a quiet transition to democracy, especially through Cuadernos para el Diálogo magazine. He was considered one of the most relevant figures of the moderate inner opposition to Francoism. Failing to play a relevant role during the 1977 democratic elections, he was later elected as the first Spanish Ombudsman.