Juan Hormaechea | |
Office: | 3rd and 5th President of Cantabria |
Term Start: | 24 June 1987 |
Term End: | 5 December 1990 |
Predecessor: | Ángel Díaz de Entresotos |
Successor: | Jaime Blanco García |
Term Start1: | 2 July 1991 |
Term End1: | 13 July 1995 |
Predecessor1: | Jaime Blanco García |
Successor1: | José Joaquín Martínez Sieso |
Office2: | Mayor of Santander |
Term Start2: | 15 June 1977 |
Term End2: | 24 June 1987 |
Birth Name: | Juan Hormaechea Cazón |
Birth Date: | 5 June 1939 |
Birth Place: | Santander, Cantabria, Spain |
Death Date: | 1 December 2020 (aged 81) |
Death Place: | Santander |
Party: | UCD Independent (linked to AP) UPCA |
Juan Hormaechea Cazón (5 June 1939 – 1 December 2020) was a Spanish politician who served as President of Cantabria between 1987 and 1990, and again from 1991 to 1995. He was also Mayor of Santander between 1977 and 1987.[1] Hormaechea founded the Union for the Progress of Cantabria (UPCA) political party in 1991 after a split from the larger People's Party of Cantabria (PP). The UPCA dissolved in 2003.
On 24 October 1994 the High Court of Justice of Cantabria condemned him to 6 years and one day in prison and 14 years of disqualification for a crime of embezzlement and another of prevarication.He never entered jail because he was pardoned by Prime Minister Felipe González in 1995.[2] [3]