Mariano Rajoy Sobredo

In this Spanish name, the first or paternal surname is Rajoy and the second or maternal family name is Sobredo.
Mariano Rajoy Sobredo
President of the provincial court of Pontevedra
In office
20 December 1969 – 10 January 1986
Preceded byJosé Luis Bescansa y Gutiérrez de Ceballos
Succeeded byFélix Rodríguez García
Personal details
Born(1921-08-28)28 August 1921
Santiago de Compostela
Died1 November 2018(2018-11-01) (aged 97)
Madrid
Spouse
Olga Brey López
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(m. 1954⁠–⁠1993)​
Children
4
Parents
  • Enrique Rajoy Leloup (father)
  • María de las Mercedes Sobredo Brandáriz (mother)
Alma materUniversidad de Santiago de Compostela
OccupationJurist and magistrate

Mariano Rajoy Sobredo (28 August 1921 – 1 November 2018), was a Spanish jurist and magistrate, president of the provincial court of Pontevedra,[1] and father of former Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy.[2][3]

Born in Santiago de Compostela, he was the son of Enrique Rajoy, a Galician academic who participated in the commission that wrote the Galician Statute of Autonomy of 1936. Due to his state of health, he remained living in the presidential Palace of Moncloa during the mandate of his son, an issue that outraged part of the population because his care was borne by the palace budget.[4]

After passing the state examination to the judiciary, he was appointed judge of First Instance and Instruction in Orders, La Coruña, in 1948, to be subsequently assigned to the Courts of First Instance and Instruction of Lalín, Pontevedra (1949-1953), Piedrahita, Avila (1953) -1955) and Carballiño, Orense (1955-1958). He was promoted to magistrate in 1958, was a judge of First Instance and Instruction in Oviedo until 1960, and later to León as Judge of First Instance and Instruction, staying in the capital of León for ten years.[5] There he coincided, among others, with the lawyer Juan Rodríguez García-Lozano, father of former President of the Government José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero. Mariano Rajoy Sobredo reached in León an outstanding reputation for the impeccable manner in which he instructed many of the cases that came to his hands.[6] was distinguished with the Order of St. Raymond of Peñafort.[citation needed]

  1. ^ Franco, Francisco (20 December 1969). Oriol y Urquijo, Antonio María (ed.). "Decreto 3202/1969, de 11 de diciembre, por el que se nombra Presidente de la Audiencia Provincial de Pontevedra a don Mariano Rajoy Sobredo" (PDF). Boletín Oficial del Estado (in Spanish) (304). Ministerio de Justicia: 19845. Retrieved 5 February 2019.
  2. ^ Jabois, Manuel (1 November 2018). "Muere el padre de Mariano Rajoy". El País (in Spanish). Madrid: Prisa. Retrieved 5 February 2019.
  3. ^ Palomo, Graciano (1 November 2018). "Muere el padre de Mariano Rajoy a los 97 años". El Mundo (in Spanish). Madrid: Unidad Editorial Información General, S.L.U. Retrieved 5 February 2019.
  4. ^ Cortizo, Gonzalo (14 October 2015). "Mariano Rajoy carga al presupuesto de La Moncloa el cuidado de su padre". El Diario (in Spanish). Retrieved 5 February 2019.
  5. ^ Franco, Francisco (11 October 1960). Iturmendi Bañales, Antonio (ed.). "Decreto 1871/1960, de 21 de septiembre, por el que se nombra Juez de Primera Instancia e Instrucción número 1 de León a don Mariano Rajoy Sobredo, Magistrado de ascenso" (PDF). Boletín Oficial del Estado (in Spanish) (244). Ministerio de Justicia: 14140. Retrieved 5 February 2019.
  6. ^ Romero, Marco (19 December 2011). "Cuando Rajoy era Marianín". Diario de León (in Spanish). Retrieved 5 February 2019.