Ignacio Blanco

Ignacio Blanco Urizar (born May 17, 1971) is a Spanish politician, lawyer and economist. He has been a member of the General Junta of the Principality of Asturias since 2019 for the Vox party.

In this Spanish name, the first or paternal surname is Blanco and the second or maternal family name is Urizar.
Ignacio Blanco
Member of the General Junta of the Principality of Asturias
Assumed office
26 May 2019
Personal details
Born (1971-05-17) 17 May 1971
Gijón, Spain
Political partyVox
Alma materUniversity of Oviedo
University of Wisconsin

Biography

Blanco is a native of Gijón and grew up in the Natahoyo district of the city.[1] He studied business management at the University of Oviedo before completing postgraduate studies at the University of Wisconsin–Eau Claire and a law conversion at the National Distance Education University (UNED).[2]

After graduating, he worked as the managing partner for a law firm in Asturias focusing on solvency matters and is a member of the Gijón Bar Association. He also authored a book The Expert and the Economic Test.[3]

Blanco was a member and secretary of the Spanish liberal think-tank The Friday Club at university before joining the nationalist Vox at its inception in 2013.[4] In 2019, he was elected as a member of the General Junta of the Principality of Asturias and subsequently became the leader of Vox in Asturias in 2020.[5]

Politically, he supports lowering taxes on rural areas to fight against depopulation.[6]

References
  1. "Ignacio Blanco, Vox en Asturias en las elecciones autonómicas 2019". Retrieved 27 June 2020.
  2. ¿Quién soy? Archived 2019-10-06 at the Wayback Machine Página web de Ignacio Blanco.
  3. "Inin abogados participa en el Mes de los Servicios Jurídicos en Asturias". El Comercio (in Spanish). 24 May 2018. Retrieved 2018-05-24.
  4. "Vox entra en la Junta con dos escaños y anuncia una «oposición firme» al PSOE". 27 May 2019. Retrieved 27 May 2019.
  5. "Ignacio Blanco dimite de sus cargos orgánicos en Vox por discrepancias con la dirección en Asturias". 6 October 2019. Retrieved 6 October 2019.
  6. "Ignacio Blanco Urizar: "El paraíso natural se lo debemos a nuestras gentes del mundo rural"". 17 April 2019. Retrieved 2019-04-17.
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