Francisco "Paco" Frutos Gras (6 September 1939 – 26 July 2020) was a Spanish politician who served, from 1998 until 2009, as the Secretary-General of the Communist Party of Spain (PCE).
Biography
He was born on 6 September 1939 in Calella, province of Barcelona.
Frutos was a key-note speaker in the October 2017 Barcelona anti-independence demonstrations during which he denounced the independence movement as identitarian racism. The Communist Party of Spain disavowed him, alleging "he does not represent us, from the Federal Committee we reject his attitude".
In July 2018, he took part in the event that launched Izquierda en Positivo, a political party that vowed to offer a "left-wing and non-nationalist" option.
He died on 26 July 2020.