Gonzalo de Oro-Pulido Plaza (born 1970) [1] is a Spanish politician of the party Vox. He was elected to the City Council of Barcelona in 2023.
Gonzalo de Oro-Pulido Plaza (born 1970) [1] is a Spanish politician of the party Vox. He was elected to the City Council of Barcelona in 2023.
De Oro has two children, and lives in Sarrià-Sant Gervasi as of 2023. [2] Since 2012, he is a partner and director of Rhombus Global Consulting, a global wealth management consultancy. As of 2022, he had over 25 years of experience in banking, including employment at Banco Sabadell and Liberbank. [3] [4]
De Oro joined Vox in 2018 and was made their coordinator in Barcelona in 2021. In December 2022, he was named their candidate for mayor in the 2023 Barcelona City Council election. [4] In his campaign, he said he would remove communism and Catalan separatism from the city, as well as dealing with squatting and insecurity, issues that he blamed on incumbent Ada Colau. [5] During the campaign, his son was arrested at a protest against a squat, for possession of an extendable baton. De Oro said "it isn't good, but it's understandable", claiming that residents required arms for self-defence. [6] He referred to Barcelona as the "European Mecca of illegal immigration and delinquency" and called its mayor a "dangerous psychopathic communist". [7] His party received 37,000 votes and two seats on Barcelona City Council. [8]
De Oro was the richest member of the council elected in 2023, with €800,000 in his bank accounts. He owned four apartments in Barcelona outright, and had shares in other properties and businesses. [9]
Sarrià-Sant Gervasi is one of the biggest districts of Barcelona, Spain. It is the district with the highest per capita income, the largest proportion of university degrees and the lowest unemployment rate. Situated on the north-west of the city, surrounded by the districts of Les Corts, Gràcia, Eixample and Horta-Guinardó and by the villages of Sant Just, Sant Feliu, Molins de Rei, and Sant Cugat. It is formed by the old villages of Sarrià, Vallvidrera, Santa Creu d'Olorda, and Sant Gervasi de Cassoles. The first written document found about Sarrià dates from the year 987, and the origins of the village are a Roman colony. The old Monestir de Pedralbes belonged to the village of Sarrià, and it is now the Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza.
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The Barcelona–Vallès Line is an unconnected standard gauge rapid transit and commuter railway line linking Barcelona with Sabadell and Terrassa via the Collserola mountain range, in Catalonia, Spain. Its name refers to the Catalan historical region of Vallès, whereby most part of the line runs. Plaça de Catalunya station serves as the Barcelona terminus of the line, where almost all its trains either start or terminate. The line then continues northwards and branches off twice before leaving the city limits. Its main route splits in two in Sant Cugat del Vallès, forming two major branches to Sabadell and Terrassa. It has 40 passenger stations in operation and a total line length of 48.1 kilometres (29.9 mi).
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Major de Sarrià is the main street in the Sarrià neighborhood in the Sarrià-Sant Gervasi district of Barcelona Part of the street is pedestrian-only, and that part is filled with shops and restaurants.
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