Manuel Portela Valladares

In this Spanish name, the first or paternal surname is Portela and the second or maternal family name is Valladares.

The Most Excellent Manuel Portela OIC
Prime Minister of Spain
In office 14 December 1935 – 19 February 1936
President	Niceto Alcala-Zamora
Preceded by	Joaquín Chapaprieta
Succeeded by	Manuel Azaña
43rd Attorney General of Spain
In office 8 October 1912 – 17 March 1913
Prime Minister	Manuel García Prieto Álvaro de Figueroa
Preceded by	Andrés Tornos y Alonso
Succeeded by	Martín Rosales y Martel
Personal details
Born	(1867-01-31)31 January 1867 Pontevedra, Spain
Died	29 April 1952(1952-04-29) (aged 85) Bandol, France
Political party	Party of the Democratic Centre
Other political affiliations	Liberal

Manuel Portela y Valladares (Pontevedra, 31 January 1867 – Bandol, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, France 29 April 1952) was a Spanish political figure during the Second Spanish Republic.^[1] He served as the 43rd Attorney General of Spain between 1912 and 1913.

A member of the Liberal Party, he served as civil governor of Barcelona in 1910 and 1923, and as Minister of Promotion in September 1923. After the socialist revolution against the republican government in October 1934, Alejandro Lerroux named him Minister of the Interior in 1935 and named Prime Minister by Niceto Alcalá-Zamora on 14 December 1935.^[2] He formed two governments prior to the elections of 16 February 1936 where he attempted to stabilise the center ground political parties. In the end, the leftist party, Popular Front won.^[1] He went into exile at the beginning of the Spanish Civil War, but eventually returned to Spain in 1937 to attend the Republican Courts plenary session held in Valencia. Then he returned to France and continued supporting the Spanish Republic in exile, but when Second World War started he was arrested by Gestapo during the occupation of France by Nazi Germany and confined by the Vichy regime near Marseille. He died in France in 1952.^[3][4]

See also

• List of prime ministers of Spain

References

1. Lentz, Harris M. (1999). Encyclopedia of heads of states and governments, 1900 through 1945. Jefferson, N.C. : McFarland. pp. 413–414. ISBN 978-0-7864-0500-8.
2. Payne, Stanley G. (1993). Spain's first democracy : the Second Republic, 1931-1936. Madison, Wis. : University of Wisconsin Press. p. 253. ISBN 978-0-299-13670-3.
3. "Portela Valladares, el político olvidado". Faro de Vigo (in Spanish). 2011-06-27.
4. José Rodríguez Lavandeira. "Manuel Portela Valladares". Diccionario biográfico español (in Spanish). Retrieved 2024-12-02.