Joaquín López Menéndez

Joaquín López Menéndez (1939 – 21 April 2019) was a Spanish engineer and politician who was the mayor of A Coruña in Galicia from 1981 to 1983.

Biography Born in A Coruña, he received a baccalaureate from the Salesians before completing his course in highway engineering in Madrid. He then practiced his profession in Norway for three years.

After returning to Spain, López Menéndez worked as the Provincial Deputation's head of roads and works. In 1977, he joined the Galician Independent Party, which was absorbed into the Union of the Democratic Centre (UCD). He ran in A Coruña in the first democratic local elections in 1979, in which he emphasised his background in urban planning, and lost to Galician nationalist Domingos Merino. In the same year, he approved of remodelling of the city's Estadio Riazor for the 1982 FIFA World Cup. Colleagues of all parties attended his funeral at the San Nicolás church and his burial at the San Julián de Serantes cemetery.