Manuel Gallent Nicola is a lawyer and Spanish politician.

After receiving a degree in International Law from the University of Valladolid, he entered politics, becoming a member of the Democratic Popular Party

Democratic Popular Party (Spain)

The People's Democratic Party was a christian-democratic Spanish political party.It was part of the Democratic Centre Union until 1982, when it entered into alliance with the Popular Alliance , which received the second largest number of votes in 1982 and 1986 elections.In 1989 the party, along...

 (PDP) and in 1982 was elected to the Spanish Congress of Deputies representing Valencia Province

Valencia (Spanish Congress Electoral District)

Valencia is one of the 52 electoral districts used for the Spanish Congress of Deputies—the lower chamber of the Spanish Parliament, the Cortes Generales. It is the third largest district in Congress in terms of the numbers of deputies elected, as it elects sixteen deputies out of the total...

 as part of an electoral alliance between the PDP and the Popular Alliance

Popular Alliance (Spain)

The People's Alliance was a electoral coalition, and later a political party, founded in 1976 by Manuel Fraga along with six other former Francoist ministers.- History :...

. During this period he served as President of the PDP and concerned himself with international human rights issues. In December 1984 he left the PDP and sat as an independent in the Spanish Congress as part of the mixed group. He did not stand at the 1986 election.