Francisco Vázquez Vázquez

Vázquez, who holds socially conservative beliefs,[1] later left the Spanish Socialist Workers' Party due to differences in ideology.

[2] Vázquez opposed the 1994 Galician Supreme Court decision that made place names in the Galician language official, opining that he should be allowed to use the Spanish-language name La Coruña when speaking Spanish, as the region is bilingual.

[4] In February 2006, Vázquez was chosen by prime minister José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero to be Spain's ambassador to the Holy See.

According to El País, Vázquez – a practicing Catholic who opposes abortion and gay marriage – was chosen to improve Spain's then fracturous relations with the Vatican.

[7][8] He was one of two creators of the Viñetas desde el Atlántico ("Comics from the Atlantic") festival in his hometown, and owns one of the biggest private collections in Spain.