Emilio Attard Alonso

Emilio Attard Alonso (Valencia, Spain, 8 April 1915 – Rocafort, 16 December 1997) was a Spanish politician.

Attard originally became politically active in his youth during the Second Spanish Republic. In this period he worked as a lawyer and a legal adviser to the Bank of Spain in Valencia. He also studied journalism in the early 1930s, writing numerous articles, and subsequently helped to found the Spanish Export Bank. By the 1960s he had become Deacon of the Spanish College of Lawyers. and was re-elected in the subsequent election in 1979.

A distinguished lawyer, Within the UCD, he served as Vice-President of the UCD parliamentary group in Congress as well as serving on the UCD national executive and the Valencian regional executive. He left the executive of the UCD in May 1981 and four years later resigned from the Council of State in protest at the naming of the former PSOE minister Tomás de la Cuadra Salcedo as President of that body.

In his later years he dedicated himself to his legal work. Besides this, he worked as Professor of Political rights at the University of Valencia. He also became President of the Constitutional Council of the Generalitat Valenciana, the Valencian Regional government in 1996 and authored numerous books, many of them on Spanish Constitutionalism and political history.

Published works Vida y muerte de UCD (1983) Conviviendo en libertad (1986) La constitución española por dentro Constitucionalismo español: 1808-1978 (1988) Mi razón política (1994) Diccionario ideológico político de la transición (1995) Bosquejo histórico-político de la España contemporánea (1996).