Pedro Aparicio Sánchez

Pedro Aparicio Sánchez (4 October 1942 – 25 September 2014) was a Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE) politician. He was a doctor by profession, and a professor at the University of Málaga. He was the first democratically elected mayor of Málaga from 1979 to 1995, and a Member of the European Parliament from 1994 to 2004. He was a founder and first president of the Spanish Federation of Municipalities and Provinces, and was the president of the PSOE in Andalusia from 1994 to 2000.

Education and medical career Aparicio graduated in Medicine and Surgery from the Complutense University of Madrid in 1966 and the in 1973. He achieved a doctorate from the Autonomous University of Barcelona in 1976. He was a professor at the University of Málaga and head of the vascular surgery section at the Carlos Haya Hospital in the city.

Aparicio was an admirer of Salvador Allende, the socialist president of Chile deposed in the 1973 coup d'état, and kept a photograph of him in his office. He spent the night of the 1981 Spanish coup d'état attempt in his office so that he could die there if he had been targeted for his ideals. His funeral was held on 2 October.

A prize for journalism in Málaga was named after Aparicio and first awarded in 2017.