The politician Eugenio Nasarre died this Saturday at the age of 78. He was general secretary of education and vocational training between 1996 and 1999, during the first Government of José María Aznar.
Nasarre was born in Madrid in 1946 and had a degree in Law, Philosophy and Political Sciences from the Complutense University of Madrid. He was also general director of RTVE in 1982 and deputy in Congress for the PP between 2000 and 2016.
Before, during his university days, he was a leader of the Union of Democratic Students (UED) and was a member of the Democratic Left (ID) party, in which he continued after joining as an official in 1972 in the Higher Corps of Civil Administrators of the State as number one of his promotion, until 1977.
He later joined the Democratic Center Union (UCD) and was head of Íñigo Cavero’s cabinet in the Ministry of Education; general director of Religious Affairs of the Ministry of Justice (1979-1980) and undersecretary of Culture (1980-1982).
Currently he was the vice president of the Spanish Council of the European Movement, Vice President of the Association of Former Deputies and Former Senators, Patron of the Catholic Education Foundation and member of the Jacques Maritain Institute.
“I am very sorry for the death of Eugenio Nasarre, a firm defender of the Constitution and the interests of all,” said the leader of the PP, Alberto Núñez Feijóo, through social networks. “He was a great intellectual, who dedicated many years to the PP,” he added.
“A cultured, compassionate and conciliatory Spaniard. An intelligent and committed Europeanist. A deeply civilized man. And a great friend.” With these words, the deputy spokesperson of the popular group in Congress, Cayetana Álvarez de Toledo, said goodbye to Nasarre.
