Who was Indalecio Prieto?
Indalecio Prieto was a political personality of the Partido Socialista Obrero Español (Spanish Worker’s Socialist Party). He was born in Oviedo in 1883 and he went to live in Bilbao from a very young age. When he was 18 he became part of the editorial staff at “El Liberal”, a republican newspaper which at the end of 1920 would be owned by Prieto. The rise in his political career took place from his city of adoption, Bilbao, which he represented first in the Diputación Vizcaína (Bizkaia provincial council) (1911), and later, in the Spanish parliament. He died in Mexico on 12th February 1962.
