Jorge Fernández Díaz

Jorge Fernández Díaz (born 6 April 1950) is a Spanish politician and a member of the Partido Popular (PP).

Early life and education Born on 6 April 1950 in Valladolid, he was the son of a military officer and Deputy Inspector-Chief of the Barcelona's Urban Guard in Francoist Spain, and the second of ten children. He moved to Barcelona at the age of 3 and studied industrial engineering at the Technical University College of Barcelona. He is the older brother of Alberto Fernández Díaz, a former PP leader in Catalonia.

Career Díaz started his career working as an engineer and civil servant. In 1983, he became the elected leader of Alianza Popular's Barcelona regional branch.

On 21 June 2016, five days before the general elections, as head of list of PP by Barcelona, he was involved in a conspiracy case against the parties of the independence of Catalonia to create corruption scandals that he, with the head of Office Against Corruption of Catalonia, had manipulated. He said that the Prime Minister, Mariano Rajoy, and leader of the Popular Party, knew the fact.

Often he was criticized by numerous political persecution against political parties as Podemos, whose complaints have been filed without any importance.

Views Díaz is a conservative and religious politician. In March 2013, Díaz argued that the law on redefining traditional marriage is not acceptable due to religious concerns but due to rational concerns.

He is a supernumerary member of the Opus Dei.