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    Leopoldo Ramón Pedro Calvo-Sotelo y Bustelo, 1st Marquess of Ría de Ribadeo (Spanish pronunciation: [leoˈpoldo ˈkalβosoˈteloj βusˈtelo]; 14 April 1926...
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    The government of Leopoldo Calvo-Sotelo was formed on 27 February 1981, following the latter's election as Prime Minister of Spain by the Congress of...
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    José Calvo Sotelo, 1st Duke of Calvo Sotelo, GE (6 May 1893 – 13 July 1936) was a Spanish jurist and politician. He was the minister of finance during...
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  • Calvo Sotelo can refer to: José Calvo Sotelo, Spanish politician assassinated in 1936 Leopoldo Calvo-Sotelo, Spanish prime minister from 1981 to 1982...
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    European Advisory Board. He is the nephew of former Spanish PM Leopoldo Calvo-Sotelo. In May 2022, he was awarded as Honorary Commander of the Order...
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    Congress of Deputies chamber in Madrid during a vote to swear in Leopoldo Calvo-Sotelo as President of the Government. The officers held the parliamentarians...
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    ahead of schedule on 27 August 1982, by the then Prime Minister Leopoldo Calvo-Sotelo, amid poor opinion poll ratings and severe infighting within his...
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    septiembre por el que se nombra Vicepresidente del Gobierno a don Leopoldo Calvo-Sotelo y Bustelo" (PDF). Boletín Oficial del Estado (in Spanish) (217)...
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    later, as parliament took the vote to confirm Suárez's successor Leopoldo Calvo-Sotelo, Lieutenant-Colonel Antonio Tejero and around 200 Civil Guards stormed...
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  • Italian painter Leopoldo Calvo-Sotelo (1926–2008), Spanish politician Leopoldo Contarbio (1927–1993), Argentine basketball player Leopoldo Conti (1901–1970)...
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    with dozens of armed officers, disrupting proceedings to elect Leopoldo Calvo-Sotelo as the new Spanish prime minister. The insurgents opened fire within...
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    Calvo-Sotelo, GCIH (born 3 December 1951) is a Spanish politician, political scientist, historian, and minister. She is also niece of Leopoldo Calvo-Sotelo...
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  • Presidente, en alza" (PDF). Diario 16 (in Spanish). 16 May 1981. "Aumenta la popularidad de Leopoldo Calvo Sotelo". El País (in Spanish). 17 May 1981....
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    managed to stop. After 23-F, the new UCD government presided by Leopoldo Calvo Sotelo managed to rule largely thanks to the support given by the PSOE...
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    exploded in 1981: Suárez resigned as the head of government, and Leopoldo Calvo Sotelo was appointed, first to lead the new cabinet, and later, to the...
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  • (Spanish: Pláticas de familia (1878–2003)) is the third book by Leopoldo Calvo-Sotelo, published by La Esfera de los libros in year 2003, four years after...
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    d'état, and during the investiture session of his replacement, Leopoldo Calvo-Sotelo (February 23, 1981), a detachment of civil guards led by Antonio...
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  • Cremades & Calvo-Sotelo is a law firm headquartered in Madrid with locations in eight countries. Founded in Madrid in 1995, the firm is chaired by Javier...
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    dismissal of Pedro Sánchez. In 2015 González traveled to Venezuela to support Leopoldo López and other imprisoned opposition leaders. His involvement came at...
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  • compuestos), such as Calvo-Sotelo or López-Portillo. For example, Leopoldo Calvo-Sotelo y Bustelo is the son of Leopoldo Calvo Sotelo and Mercedes Bustelo...
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    Spanish bases. In February 1981, following a failed coup attempt, Leopoldo Calvo-Sotelo became Prime Minister and campaigned strongly for NATO membership...
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  • the Spanish transition. It is the first of the books published by Leopoldo Calvo-Sotelo, which was followed by an out-of-office politician's papers (Papeles...
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  • (Spanish: Papeles de un cesante) is the second book published by Leopoldo Calvo-Sotelo and it was released on 1999, published by Galaxia Gutenberg, and...
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    many autonomous communities were to be created, on 31 July 1981, Leopoldo Calvo-Sotelo, then the prime minister of Spain and Felipe González, leader of...
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    Pertini, Irish President Patrick Hillery, Spanish Prime Minister Leopoldo Calvo-Sotelo, and King Baudouin of Belgium. The sitting U.S. President Ronald...
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    March 1978 to 5 January 1979. He then worked with Adolfo Suárez and Leopoldo Calvo-Sotelo as Minister of Transport and Communications from 1980 to 1981. He...
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    serve as minister of foreign affairs in the next cabinet led by Leopoldo Calvo-Sotelo. Pérez-Llorca's term under Adolfo Suárez was not productive due...
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  • into the Congress of Deputies while they were preparing to elect Leopoldo Calvo-Sotelo as the new Prime Minister. King Juan Carlos denounced the coup in...
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    Preysler, in 1987. Boyer's first wife, Elena Arnedo, was the cousin of Leopoldo Calvo-Sotelo. Isabel Preysler was the former spouse of the singer Julio Iglesias...
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    Spain, former democratic Prime Ministers of Spain Adolfo Suárez, Leopoldo Calvo Sotelo, Felipe González and José María Aznar, former Prime Minister of...
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