Die Miguel Boyer

 The former Minister of Economy, Finance and Trade from 1982 to 1985 in the Socialist government of Felipe González died Monday in Madrid from a pulmonary embolism

Barcelona (Writing / Agencies) .- The former Minister of Economy, Finance and Trade from 1982 to 1985 in the Socialist government of Felipe González, Miguel Boyer, died Monday in Madrid at age 75 as a result of a pulmonary embolism. The Spanish economist and politician died at the Ruber International clinic in the Spanish capital, where he admitted urgently this morning, according to sources close to the family.
The mortal remains of former minister have left the Ruber International Hospital at 14.23 pm this afternoon at the San Isidro Park Mortuary. The politician, who in February 2012 had a stroke, has admitted in critical condition this morning at the clinic where he died about an hour later, reports the same in a statement to journalists waiting at the gates of the hospital.
Just before leaving the place his widow, Isabel Preysler, and daughter Ana Boyer. The clinic also has approached the former Minister of Economy during the government of Felipe González Carlos Solchaga, who praised political figure both in his role as "very important man in Transition" as its intellectual side.
For the story are pictures RUMASA president, José María Ruiz-Mateos, attacking shouting "milk what hit you!" Boyer, who relentlessly pursued disguised Superman or inmate, among other things. From his time in the socialist government is a tight monetary policy to control inflation and the ideological clash with the other cabinet "heavyweight" Vice President Alfonso Guerra.
It is likely that in those years began its political transition, which had the inflection point his unexpected resignation of the Government in July 1985 and ended when she left Socialist ranks in 1996 to publicly support the economic program who had hitherto been his political opponents . In 2002 would be appointed to the board of the FAES, the foundation of the PP, proposed by the former Prime Minister José María Aznar, but abandoned in 2011 in another twist laying again approached the government of José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero.
The contrasts also reached his private life, which he spent on the discretion of his marriage to the gynecologist Elena Arnedo, with whom he had two children, her liaison with the Queen "Coated paper" Isabel Preysler, with whom he has been married over 26 years and had a daughter. The couple was part of the so-called "beautiful people", people in the financial and business world that flourished in the 80s and 90s during the socialist governments such as the former governor of the Bank of Spain Mariano Rubio, president of Banesto or Mario Conde. Being part of that circle was marred by Ibercorp, financial scandal that led to the downfall of Mariano Rubio, but the case that Boyer unscathed.
Miguel Boyer Salvador was born on February 5, 1939 in San Juan de Luz (France) within a Catalan family exiled, two months before the end of the Civil War. Degree in Physics and Economics with honors from the Complutense University of Madrid, was socialist activist from the sixties, which cost him several months in prison in Carabanchel and the expulsion of the Nuclear Energy Board, where he worked as a physicist.
He joined the Socialist Executive in 1976 and was elected deputy for Jaén in the elections of March 1979, although a year and a half later resigned for professional reasons. Before that he had been an economist at the research service of the Bank of Spain, director of studies at the National Institute of Industry (INI) and Director of Planning Rio Tinto Explosives Union.
It lasted little break from politics because in December 1982 he joined the first cabinet of Felipe González, years in which the fame of cold and haughty won, and which came to be considered the most powerful minister that Government. Their adjustment policies and reforms encountered opposition guerrista apparatus and unions, advocates a more expansive economic policy towards measures that liberals believed Boyer.
Were the years of industrial restructuring, which resulted in a high job destruction and expropriation decree of one of the largest private groups in the country to protect the public purse (one of its main creditors), its employees and shareholders . The output Boyer Government at its request was justified in weariness, but inevitably was interpreted as the victory of Alfonso Guerra.
After his term on the Executive passed by the Foreign Bank, Central bank, Grucycsa and FCC, until he was named president of CLH, charged he held until 2005 In the years after he was appointed Minister of Reyal Urbis and Red Eléctrica of Spain councils in which caused low after suffering a stroke in the spring of 2012.