Luis de Velasco Rami

Luis de Velasco Rami (born 1939 in Valencia) is a Spanish economist, essayist and politician.

A former deputy and Secretary of State of Commerce with the Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE), he is now affiliated to and a member of the Directive Council of Union, Progress and Democracy (UPyD).

Thereafter, he lived in London and Dublin for two years, and in 1964 he passed the civil service exams and entered the Ministry of Commerce.

He was a deputy in the Congress from 1986 to 1989, representing Navarre and Secretary of State of Commerce, but in 1994 he quit the party on ideological grounds.

The candidacy headed by Luis de Velasco achieved 6.30% of the votes and obtained eight deputies in the Assembly of Madrid in the elections held on May 22, 2011.