Curriculum

He took a degree in Law at Santiago University and has been working as lawyer since 1965. In 1963, he founded the Galician Socialist Party. He was also one of the founders of the cultural association 'O Facho'. He started to teach Galician language at Santiago University (1957-59). He also gave Galician language courses, organized by the cultural association 'O Facho'. He was a member of the Group of the Sixteen ('Grupo de los 16') that drafted the project of the Galician Statute of Autonomy and rappourteur at the Constitutional Committee of the Congress to pass the Galician Statue of Autonomy. From 1979 to 1982, he was a deputy at the Congress and senator from 1982 to 1989. From 1983 to 1986, he was the secretary of the Spanish Delegation in the Interparliamentarian Union. From 1989 to 1993, he was a deputy in the Galician Parliament and president of the socialist parliamentary group.