The Most Excellent
Pablo Echenique
MP
Pablo Echenique Robba in 2018.
Member of the Congress of Deputies
In office
21 May 2019 – 17 August 2023
ConstituencyZaragoza
Member of the Aragonese Corts
In office
18 June 2015 – 13 September 2017
ConstituencyZaragoza
Member of the European Parliament
In office
1 July 2014 – 14 March 2015
ConstituencySpain
Personal details
Born
Pablo Echenique Robba

(1978-08-28) 28 August 1978 (age 45)
Rosario, Argentina
Political partyPodemos
SpouseMaría Alejandra Nelo Bazán
EducationDoctorate in Physics
Alma materUniversidad de Zaragoza
OccupationPhysicist 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]

References

  1. ^ Pablo in Podemos page Archived 2015-02-22 at the Wayback Machine
  2. ^ Mucha, Martín (1 June 2014). "El otro Pablo de Podemos". Crónica de El Mundo. Retrieved 26 June 2014. (in Spanish)
  3. ^ "En la izquierda a veces la gente se vuelve anticientífica" Published by Materia on 30 May 2014 Consulted 26 June 2014 (in Spanish)
  4. ^ "Echenique Robba, Pablo". Congress of Deputies. Retrieved 11 June 2019. (in Spanish)
  5. ^ López Alonso, Eduardo (26 May 2014). "Podemos, el partido revelación de Pablo Iglesias". El Periódico de Catalunya. Retrieved 3 July 2014. (in Spanish)
  6. ^ Giménez San Miguel, Luis (28 May 2014). "Los otros diputados de Podemos". Público. Retrieved 3 July 2014. (in Spanish)
  7. ^ "Echenique Robba, Pablo". Aragonese Corts. Retrieved 29 October 2016. (in Spanish)
  8. ^ "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.
  9. ^ "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.
  10. ^ Pozas, Alberto (17 October 2022). "El Supremo anula la condena de Echenique a pagar 80.000 euros por acusar a un hombre de violación". eldiario.es.

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