Pablo Echenique
Pablo Echenique MP | |
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 Pablo Echenique Robba in 2018. | |
| Member of the Congress of Deputies | |
| Assumed office 21 May 2019 | |
| Constituency | Zaragoza |
| Member of the Aragonese Corts | |
| In office 18 June 2015 – 13 September 2017 | |
| Constituency | Zaragoza |
| Member of the European Parliament | |
| In office 1 July 2014 – 14 March 2015 | |
| Constituency | Spain |
| Personal details | |
| Born | Pablo Echenique Robba 28 August 1978 Rosario, Argentina |
| Political party | Podemos |
| Spouse(s) | María Alejandra Nelo Bazán |
| Education | Doctorate in Physics |
| Alma mater | Universidad de Zaragoza |
| Occupation | Physicist and politician |
Pablo Echenique Robba[1] (born 28 August 1978 in Rosario, Santa Fe, Argentina) is an Argentine-born Spanish physicist and politician.
He came to Spain aged 13 to live in Zaragoza and suffers from Spinal muscular atrophy.[2] Echenique was elected a member of the Congress of Deputies in the April 2019 Spanish general election along with the left-wing political party Podemos.[3] Previously, Echenique was one of the five MEPs elected by Podemos in the 2014 European Parliament election, and was a member of the Aragonese Corts between 2015 and 2017.[4][5][6]
As a scientist, he holds a position at the Spanish National Research Council in Zaragoza (CSIC).[7]
In October 2020, he was fined €11,040 for the irregular employment of his assistant.[8] In November 2020, he was fined €80,000 for saying that a man who was murdered in 1985 was a rapist.[9]
References[]
- ^ Pablo in Podemos page Archived 2015-02-22 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ "En la izquierda a veces la gente se vuelve anticientífica" Published by Materia on 30 May, 2014 Consulted 26 June, 2014 (in Spanish)
- ^ "Echenique Robba, Pablo". Congress of Deputies. Retrieved 11 June 2019. (in Spanish)
- ^ López Alonso, Eduardo (26 May 2014). "Podemos, el partido revelación de Pablo Iglesias". El Periódico de Catalunya. Retrieved 3 July 2014. (in Spanish)
- ^ Giménez San Miguel, Luis (28 May 2014). "Los otros diputados de Podemos". Público. Retrieved 3 July 2014. (in Spanish)
- ^ "Echenique Robba, Pablo". Aragonese Corts. Retrieved 29 October 2016. (in Spanish)
- ^ Mucha, Martín (1 June 2014). "El otro Pablo de Podemos". Crónica de El Mundo. Retrieved 26 June 2014. (in Spanish)
- ^ "Ratifican la multa de 11.000 euros a Echenique por no haber cotizado por su asistente". La Voz de Galicia (in Spanish). 21 October 2020. Retrieved 11 February 2021.
- ^ "Echenique y Del Olmo, condenados a pagar 80.000 euros por una falsa acusación de violación" (in Spanish). La Sexta. 17 November 2020. Retrieved 11 February 2021.
External links[]
- Pablo Echenique on Facebook
- Pablo Echenique on Twitter
- De retrones y hombres (in Spanish)
- Pablo Echenique Robba at the European Parliament
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