Francisco Igea

Last updated
(Francisco Igea) Intervencion de Francisco Igea en la toma de posesion de la directora general Maria Garcia.jpg

Francisco Igea Arisqueta (born 17 April 1964) is a Spanish politician who was a member of the Citizens party between 2016 and 2023.

A doctor by profession, he was a member of the Congress of Deputies (2016–2019). He led his party in the 2019 Castilian-Leonese regional election, and became vice president of the Junta of Castile and León after forming a government with the People's Party leader Alfonso Fernández Mañueco.

Igea came runner-up in his party's 2020 leadership election. In the 2022 election, his party lost all their seats in the Cortes of Castile and León except his own. He was expelled from Citizens in 2023 for criticising their decision not to contest the 2023 Spanish general election, and retained his seat as an independent before joining Izquierda Española .

Biography

Born in Valladolid, Igea graduated in Medicine from the University of Valladolid. A specialist in the digestive system, he worked at a hospital in Palencia as head of department until 2013, when he volunteered for redundancy due to cuts. [1]

Igea contested the primaries to lead Union, Progress and Democracy in the 2015 Castilian-Leonese regional election, losing to Rafael Delgado. He then left the party, for Citizens. [1] He was elected to the Congress of Deputies in the Valladolid constituency in December 2015. [2] The following June, he was the only member of his party in Castile and León to win re-election. [3] In January 2017, he entered his party's central committee, responsible for health. [1]

In February 2019, Igea announced that he would challenge Silvia Clemente in the party primaries to lead in May's regional elections. [4] In March, on a recount, he defeated the former People's Party regional leader. [5] His party became the third largest in the Cortes of Castile and León behind the Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE) and the PP. [6] In July, his party formed a government with the PP, and he became regional vice president. [7]

In December 2019, a judge closed a case against Igea initiated by a party member who had accused him of threats in March. [8]

Igea announced his candidacy in February 2020 for Citizens' leadership election, standing against Inés Arrimadas. [9] She won by 76.9% to 22.3%. [10]

At the end of 2021, Mañueco called an early election with the aim of governing alone, as his counterpart Isabel Díaz Ayuso had achieved in the Community of Madrid. [11] Igea was named Citizens' lead candidate by the party's national leadership without the need of a primary, citing new rules in the party for when there is an unexpectedly short electoral campaign. [12] The election ended up with Citizens losing all their seats except Igea's while Vox made gains; he offered to align with the PP to top Vox governing. [13]

In September 2023, Igea and Edmundo Bal were expelled from Citizens for criticising the party's decision not to contest the 2023 Spanish general election. Igea did not appeal the decision and did not resign his seat. [14] In the 2024 European Parliament election in Spain, he was 32nd on the list of Izquierda Española . [15] After considerable press coverage, the party took only 0.18% and no seats in the election; [16] in Castile and León it polled 0.25%. [17]

Related Research Articles

Citizens, officially Citizens–Party of the Citizenry, is a liberal political party in Spain.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Inés Arrimadas</span> Spanish politician (born 1981)

Inés Arrimadas García is a Spanish lawyer and former politician who served as Member of the Congress of Deputies and Spokesperson of Citizens party in the Congress. She was previously the leader of the regional branch of the party in Catalonia. In March 2020, she was voted party leader.

In the run up to the 2019 Spanish local elections, various organisations carried out opinion polling to gauge voting intention in local entities in Spain. Results of such polls are displayed in this article. The date range for these opinion polls is from the previous local elections, held on 24 May 2015, to the day the next elections were held, on 26 May 2019.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">2019 Castilian-Leonese regional election</span>

The 2019 Castilian-Leonese regional election was held on Sunday, 26 May 2019, to elect the 10th Cortes of the autonomous community of Castile and León. All 81 seats in the Cortes were up for election. The election was held simultaneously with regional elections in eleven other autonomous communities and local elections all throughout Spain, as well as the 2019 European Parliament election.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">2022 Castilian-Leonese regional election</span>

The 2022 Castilian-Leonese regional election was held on Sunday, 13 February 2022, to elect the 11th Cortes of the autonomous community of Castile and León. All 81 seats in the Cortes were up for election. This marks the first time that a regional premier in Castile and León has made use of the presidential prerogative to call an early election.

In the run up to the 2019 Spanish local elections, various organisations carried out opinion polling to gauge voting intention in local entities in Spain. Results of such polls for municipalities in Castile and León are displayed in this article. The date range for these opinion polls is from the previous local elections, held on 24 May 2015, to the day the next elections were held, on 26 May 2019.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Alfonso Fernández Mañueco</span> Spanish politician

Alfonso Fernández Mañueco is a Spanish politician who serves as the President of the Junta of Castile and León since 2019. He is also the chairman of the People's Party of Castile and León since 2017. He served as Mayor of Salamanca between 2011 and 2018.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">First government of Alfonso Fernández Mañueco</span>

The first government of Alfonso Fernández Mañueco was formed on 17 July 2019, following the latter's election as President of the Junta of Castile and León by the Cortes of Castile and León on 9 July and his swearing-in on 12 July, as a result of the People's Party (PP) and Citizens (Cs) being able to muster a majority of seats in the Cortes following the 2019 Castilian-Leonese regional election. It succeeded the fifth Herrera government and was the Junta of Castile and León from 17 July 2019 to 20 April 2022, a total of 1,008 days, or 2 years, 9 months and 3 days.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">5th General Assembly of Citizens (Spanish political party)</span>

The 5th General Assembly of Citizens was held between 30 April and 3 May 2020 to renovate the leading bodies of the Citizens party (Cs) and establish the party's main lines of action and strategy for the next leadership term. A primary election to elect the new party president was held between 7 and 8 March. The assembly was called following the resignation of party leader Albert Rivera on 11 November 2019 as a result of Cs obtaining the worst electoral result of the party in the general election held on 10 November.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Juan Carlos Suárez-Quiñones</span> Spanish politician (born 1961)

Juan Carlos Suárez-Quiñones is a Spanish politician, jurist and judge. Ángel Ibáñez is a member of the People's Party of Castile and León. Juan Carlos is the current minister of development and the environment of Cortes of Castile and León, in office from 17 July 2019.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Silvia Clemente</span> Spanish politician

Silvia Clemente Municio is a Spanish politician and civil servant. She is a member of the People's Party of Castile and León, and was the minister for the environment of the Junta of Castile and León from 2001 to 2003. She was appointed director general in charge of environmental quality on August 5, 1999. She was president of the Junta of Castile and León, from 2015 to 2019. She changed her obligation when she was appointed culture and tourism advisor in 2003. She was exercises the obligation of advisor to agriculture and livestock between 2007 and 2015. She announced her resignation as a member of the People's Party.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Carmen Picazo</span> Spanish lawyer and politician

María del Carmen Picazo Pérez is a Spanish lawyer and politician for the Citizens party. She was elected to the Cortes of Castilla–La Mancha as her party's leader in 2019 and lost her seat in 2023.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Luis Tudanca</span> Spanish politician

Luis Tudanca Fernández is a Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE) politician who has been the party's Secretary General in Castile and León since 2014. He has been Leader of the Opposition in the Cortes of Castile and León since the 2015 elections, and was previously in the Congress of Deputies between 2008 and 2015.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Edmundo Bal</span> Spanish politician (born 1967)

Edmundo Bal Francés is a Spanish lawyer and politician. As a member of the State Lawyers Corps, he prosecuted La Liga footballers for tax avoidance, members of the governing People's Party for corruption, and proponents of the Catalan independence movement for sedition.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Next Castilian-Leonese regional election</span>

The next Castilian-Leonese regional election will be held no later than Saturday, 21 March 2026, to elect the 12th Cortes of the autonomous community of Castile and León. All 81 seats in the Cortes will be up for election. The electoral calendar of Castile and León was altered as a result of the 2022 snap election, meaning the election will be held in a date different from that of the regularly scheduled May regional and elections in 2023.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Juan García-Gallardo</span> Spanish lawyer and politician

Juan Manuel García-Gallardo Frings is a Spanish lawyer and politician of the Vox party. He led the party in the 2022 Castilian-Leonese regional election, in which they became the third-biggest group in the Cortes of Castile and León. They formed government with the People's Party (PP) and he became Vice President to the PP leader Alfonso Fernández Mañueco. García-Gallardo resigned from this post in July 2024 due to a dispute with the PP on the subject of immigration, but remained Vox's spokesperson in the Cortes.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Luis Fuentes (politician)</span> Spanish politician

Luis Fuentes Rodríguez is a Spanish politician of the Citizens party. He was a member of the Cortes of Castile and León from 2015 to 2022, serving as the legislature's president from 2019.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Second government of Alfonso Fernández Mañueco</span>

The second government of Alfonso Fernández Mañueco was formed on 20 April 2022, following the latter's election as President of the Junta of Castile and León by the Cortes of Castile and León on 11 April and his scheduled swearing-in on 19 April, as a result of the People's Party (PP) and Vox being able to muster a majority of seats in the Cortes following the 2022 Castilian-Leonese regional election. It succeeded the first Mañueco government and has been the incumbent Junta of Castile and León since 20 April 2022, a total of 973 days, or 2 years, 7 months and 28 days.

The 6th General Assembly of Citizens was held between 9 and 15 January 2023, to renovate the leading bodies of the Citizens Party (Cs) and refound the party. On 21 June 2022, Inés Arrimadas called for a process of refoundation of the party following the succession of defeats in the Madrilenian, Castilian-Leonese and Andalusian elections where the party saw its representation drop to 0 or 1 seats. Following the conclusion of the refoundation, a bicephalous leadership was enforced separating in the positions of Secretary-General and Political Spokesperson.

Izquierda Española is a political party in Spain.

References

  1. 1 2 3 Gamarra, Lorena (10 March 2019). "Quién es Francisco Igea, el rival de Silvia Clemente que impugnó su elección" [Who is Francisco Igea, Silvia Clemente's rival who challenges her election]. El Independiente (in Spanish). Retrieved 27 March 2021.
  2. ↑ "La 'vuelta al cole' de los 32 diputados" [The 'first day back at school' for the 32 deputies]. El Norte de Castilla (in Spanish). 11 January 2016. Retrieved 27 March 2021.
  3. ↑ "Igea, único diputado de C's en CyL, promete "sudar" tanto para un nuevo gobierno como para que cambien las cosas" [Igea, only C's deputy in C&L, promises to "sweat" greatly for a new government so that things can change]. La Información (in Spanish). 27 June 2016. Retrieved 28 March 2021.
  4. ↑ Sanz, Luis Ángel (26 February 2019). "Albert Rivera rompe Ciudadanos en Castilla y León al imponer a una dirigente del PP" [Albert Rivera fractures Citizens in Castile and León by bringing in a PP leader]. El Mundo (in Spanish). Retrieved 28 March 2021.
  5. ↑ "Igea le gana las primarias de Ciudadanos a Clemente tras la revisión de los votos" [Igea defeats Clemente in the Citizens primaries after a recount]. ABC (in Spanish). 11 March 2019. Retrieved 28 March 2021.
  6. ↑ "Resultados Elecciones Autonómicas en Castilla y León" [Autonomous Election Results in Castile and León]. El Norte de Castilla (in Spanish). Retrieved 28 March 2021.
  7. ↑ "Fernández Mañueco e Igea se rodean de seis hombres y tres mujeres en su gobierno conjunto para Castilla y León" [Fernández Mañueco and Igea are flanked by six men and three women in their coalition government for Castile and León] (in Spanish). CyLTV. 16 July 2019. Retrieved 28 March 2021.
  8. ↑ "Absuelto Igea (Cs) de un delito de amenazas contra un militante de su partido" [Igea (Cs) acquitted of threats against a member of his party]. La Vanguardia (in Spanish). 10 December 2019. Retrieved 28 March 2021.
  9. ↑ Esteban, Paloma (25 February 2020). "Igea presenta su candidatura contra Arrimadas y pide un debate este jueves" [Igea presents his candidacy against Arrimadas and requests a debate this Thursday]. El Confidencial (in Spanish). Retrieved 28 March 2021.
  10. ↑ Sanz, Luis Ángel (8 March 2020). "Inés Arrimadas barre a Francisco Igea con el 77% de los votos en las primarias de Ciudadanos" [Inés Arrimadas sweeps away Francisco Igea with 77% of the votes in the Citizens leadership election]. El Mundo (in Spanish). Retrieved 28 March 2021.
  11. ↑ "Pablo Casado muestra su apoyo a Mañueco para liderar una victoria "en solitario"" [Pablo Casado shows his support to Mañueco to lead a victory "by ourselves"]. La Opinión de Zamora (in Spanish). Europa Press. 30 December 2021. Retrieved 4 January 2022.
  12. ↑ Carvajal, Álvaro (27 December 2021). "Ciudadanos nombra a Francisco Igea candidato en Castilla y León sin primarias y apelando a la "unidad"" [Citizens name Francisco Igea candidate in Castile and León without primaries and calling for "unity"]. El Mundo (in Spanish). Retrieved 4 January 2022.
  13. ↑ "Igea lamenta la "catástrofe" de Cs y se ofrece al PP para evitar la entrada de Vox en el Gobierno de CyL" [Igea laments Cs' "catastrophe" and offers himself to the PP to avoid Vox entering the Government of Castile and León] (in Spanish). Europa Press. 14 February 2022. Retrieved 14 February 2022.
  14. ↑ "Ciudadanos expulsa a Edmundo Bal y a Francisco Igea" [Citizens expel Edmundo Bal and Francisco Igea]. Público (in Spanish). 28 September 2023. Retrieved 9 April 2024.
  15. ↑ "Igea, en el puesto 32 de la lista de Izquierda Española a las europeas del 9J" [Igea, 32nd on Izquierda Española's list for the European election on 9 June]. ABC (in Spanish). 8 May 2024. Retrieved 17 December 2024.
  16. ↑ Martín Pérez, Idafé (13 June 2024). "Pompas de jabón" [Soap bubbles]. El País (in Spanish). Retrieved 17 December 2024.
  17. ↑ del Campo, Santiago G. (10 June 2024). "Izquierda Española, tercer partido de Igea en la irrelevancia política abocado a desaparecer" [Izquierda Española, Igea's third party in political irrelevancy and doomed to fail]. Diario de Castilla y León (in Spanish). Retrieved 17 December 2024.
This page is based on this Wikipedia article
Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license; additional terms may apply.
Images, videos and audio are available under their respective licenses.