Ignacio Gallego

Ignacio Gallego Bezares (1914-1990), was a Spanish communist politician, General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Peoples of Spain (PCPE).

Born in Siles, Jaén Province, Spain, Gallego fought on the Republican side in the Spanish Civil War.

When Francisco Franco won, Gallego fled and was put in a refugee camp in then French-ruled Algeria.

Gallego secretly returned to Spain in 1976 and made his first public appearance in the country on the day the PCE was legalised (25 April 1977).

Gallego formed the Marxist-Leninist and pro-Soviet Communist Party of the Peoples of Spain after the mainstream PCE fragmented in the wake of an electoral rout in 1982.