The former director of the Civil Guard Santiago López Valdivielso died this Tuesday in Madrid at the age of 73, as confirmed to EFE by sources from the PP of Valladolid, a formation that he presided over for just over ten years (1983-1993) before developing a extensive political career at the national level.
Through a recording, the president of the Valladolid PP, Conrado Íscar, has expressed the pain of this party for the loss of López Valdivielso, whom he has considered "an example of responsibility and commitment to the service of society."
He recalled that López Valdivielso (Valladolid, 1950) carried out many responsibilities during his political career and that he always defended and carried his province of origin "in his heart." "We join in the pain of his family in these difficult moments," he concluded.
López Valdivielso directed the Civil Guard between 1996 and 2004, in the governments chaired by José María Aznar, with whom he had coincided during his time in Castilla y León, where he was regional attorney between 1983 and 1986, before making the leap to national politics. .
He was elected deputy for the province of Valladolid and remained in Congress between 1986 and 1996, after which he assumed the highest position in the Civil Guard, and later, between 2011 and 2016, he held a seat as Senator.
Son of Santiago López González, mayor of Valladolid between 1961 and 1965 and one of the promoters of the implementation of the Fasa Renault factory in Valladolid, López Valdivielso had a degree in Law and combined his political career with his business activity.
Shortly after the death of López Valdivielso became known, both the current mayor of Valladolid, Jesús Julio Carnero, and the former councilor and current socialist minister Óscar Puente have mourned the death of the former director of the Civil Guard and have recalled his historical family connection with the city. .
For his part, Jesús Julio Carnero (PP) praised López Valdivielso as a "public servant" and as "a great person.
In an event held in the Valladolid capital, Carnero expressed his condolences to the family of López Valdivielso, a "fundamental figure" for the PP of Valladolid, which he presided over for just over a decade, and to the city itself.
"Always, wherever he was, he showed off the fact of being from Valladolid. His love for Valladolid was expressed in each and every one of the situations or functions that he had to perform," said Carnero, who highlighted above all the work front of the Civil Guard "at an important and fundamental time in the history of Spain".
Meanwhile, the Minister of Transport and Sustainable Mobility and former mayor of Valladolid, Óscar Puente, has also regretted the death of López Valdivielso, a "great guy, part of a very important family in the history of Valladolid."
Through a message on his social networks, the former councilor of the city of Valladolid has recalled that Santiago López was the son of the homonymous mayor of the city of Pisuerga and has reported that he has transferred the family and the PP of Valladolid, which also presided, his condolences.
