Emilio Attard Alonso

Emilio Attard Alonso (Valencia, Spain, 8 April 1915 – Rocafort, 16 December 1997) was a Spanish politician.

[2] He also studied journalism in the early 1930s, writing numerous articles,[3] and subsequently helped to found the Spanish Export Bank.

[2] Along with the other six members of the Constitutional Commission he was subsequently awarded the Grand Cross of Alonso X by the King Juan Carlos I.

During this period Attard was a major figure in organising anti-Catalan groups as a political tactic for the UCD.

)[6] He left the executive of the UCD in May 1981 and four years later resigned from the Council of State in protest at the naming of the former PSOE minister Tomás de la Cuadra Salcedo as President of that body.