Pablo Echenique | |
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Member of the Congress of Deputies | |
In office 21 May 2019 –17 August 2023 | |
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 | 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. As a scientist,he holds a position at the Spanish National Research Council in Zaragoza (CSIC). [2]
He came to Spain aged 13 to live in Zaragoza. He had Spinal muscular atrophy. [3] 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. [4] 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. [5] [6] [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] The Supreme Court subsequently annulled this conviction after concluding that he did not make a direct accusation against the plaintiff's brother,but rather expressed a show of solidarity with his political colleague. [10]
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