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Alfredo Sánchez Monteseirín, the mayor who modernized Seville, dies at 69

The mayor, the longest-serving at the helm of the Seville City Council, has died after a long illness

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Alfredo Sánchez Monteseirín, the mayor who modernized Seville, dies at 69

Alfredo Sánchez Monteseirín, the former mayor of Sevilla, has died at the age of 69 after a long illness. He served as mayor from 1999 to 2011 and was previously president of the Diputación. Monteseirín led the modernization of Sevilla after the 1992 Expo, a project that was met with criticism at the time. He was born in La Rinconada in 1957.

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