Luis Uruñuela Fernández

Luis Uruñuela Fernández (2 April 1937 – 31 July 2026) was a Spanish politician of the Andalusian Party (PA). He was the first democratically elected mayor of Seville, serving from 1979 to 1983.

Career Uruñuela was born on 2 April 1937, in Seville. He took the office due to a regional pact between his Andalusian Party, the Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE) and the Communist Party of Spain (PCE), in which the eight provincial capitals of Andalusia were divided between them. Under his government, the neighbourhood near Seville Airport was developed, become the most populous of the city by the time of his death.

In May 2009, Uruñuela, Del Valle and Soledad Becerril received Seville's medal for being the first three democratic mayors of the city. He used his speech to reiterate his support for expanding the Metro into the Casco Antiguo. An avenue in Sevilla Este was named after him, as was a planned station on line 2 of the Metro.

Personal life and death For 75 years, Uruñuela was a member of the . He was baptised in their chapel due to the damage to his local parish church in the Spanish Civil War, and he and his family took part in their Holy Week processions.

Uruñuela had four daughters and a son. His first daughter, María José, died suddenly at the age of 46 in January 2012. He died on 31 July 2026, at the age of 89. The city council declared two days of mourning, and mayor José Luis Sanz remembered him as a "key driver of the growth of Seville".