Maldonado Gonzalez, Spanish Exile Leader
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OVIEDO, Spain — Jose Maldonado Gonzalez, the last president of Spain’s Republican government in exile, died Monday of respiratory ailments at a hospital in this northern Spanish city.
Maldonado was 85 and went to Mexico after the Spanish Republic was crushed by the late dictator Francisco Franco in the 1936-39 Civil War. There he succeeded Luis Jimenez de Asua as president of the Republican government-in-exile in 1970.
The exiled government was a symbol of resistance to Franco.
He formally dissolved the government in 1977 after Spain’s first democratic elections and returned to his home region here in 1980.
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