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Ernest Lluch Martín, (1937-2000) was a Spanish academic and politician, and Minister of Health and Consumption from 1982-1986 in the first post-Franco socialist government of Felipe González. He was assassinated in 2000 by the Basque Separatist organisation, ETA.

He was born in Vilassar de Mar, Barcelona on 21 January 1937. He gained his doctorate in Economic Sciences at the University of Barcelona, and studied further at the Sorbonne in Paris. As assistant professor at the University of Barcelona, he was detained on several occasions and expelled from the University for his antifrancoist political activity. He served professor of Economics at the University of Valencia (1974) and History of Economic Doctrines of the Central University of Barcelona. His last official position was as Director of the Menéndez Pelayo International University in Santander, from 1989 to 1995.

In April 1980 he was chosen as spokesman of the Catalan Socialists in Congress, and two years later, in the elections of October of 1982, he was chosen as a deputy by the Psc-PSOE. Felipe González named him Minister of Health and Consumption in the first socialist government, a position he held until 1986.

In May 1986 he retired from politics to resume the chair of History of Economic Doctrines of the Central University of Barcelona. On 2 January, 1989, he took up his position as Director of the Menéndez Pelayo International University in Santander.

He was assassinated by ETA terrorists who shot him twice in the head at his home, on 21 November 2000. At a UEFA soccer match with Bruges later that week, the Barcelona team came onto the pitch wearing black armbands in honor of Luch, who had also been a fervent supporter of the team.

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