Luis Alberto Aguiriano Forniés (1 April 1940 – 23 June 2019[1]) was a Spanish socialist politician.
He served as a senator from 1977 to 1979[2] and from 1982 to 1986,[3] as well as a member of the Congress of Deputies from 1986 to 2000.
[4] He was born in Vitoria to a left-wing family which took part in the clandestine reorganization of the Álava branch of the Spanish Socialist Workers' Party during the Francoist dictatorship.
[5] José Antonio Aguiriano, who would also become a politician, was his older brother.
He was a founding member of the Federación Universitaria Democrática Española [es], an underground students' union; this led to him being arrested and imprisoned in Bilbao.