Jorge Buxadé
Jorge Buxadé Villalba (born 26 May 1975 in Barcelona) is a Spanish lawyer and politician who was elected as a Member of the European Parliament in the 2019 European Parliament election in Spain,[3] and has been spokesperson for Vox since February 2020.[4] He is a member of the national-conservative party Vox and previously worked for the People's Party between 2004 and 2014. In 1995, he was an unsuccessful candidate in the Catalan parliamentary election as a member of Falange Española de las JONS, and in 1996 he was number 8 in the Falange Auténtica list for Barcelona for the Spanish general election.[5]
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Co-chairman of the European Conservatives and Reformists Head of the Vox Delegation to the European Parliament | |
Assumed office 11 December 2019 | |
Serving alongside | Ryszard Legutko |
Member of European Parliament for Spain | |
Assumed office 2 July 2019[1][2] | |
Personal details | |
Born | Barcelona, Spain | 26 May 1975
Political party | Vox (2014-) PP (2004-2014) Falange Auténtica (1996) Falange Española de las JONS (1995) |
Political views
Buxadé is the president of the Foro Catalán de la Familia, a conservative organization.[5] He regularly writes for his own blog Lo antiguo es lo nuevo.
He is opposed to the independence of his native Catalonia and is a member and cofounder of anti-secessionist organizations like Societat Civil Catalana and Fundación Joan Boscà.[6][7]
Jorge Buxadé Villalba is a self-confessed admirer of José Antonio Primo de Rivera, the founder of the Spanish Falange. In September 2012, he described José Antonio and Ernesto Giménez Caballero, one of the ideologues of fascism in Spain, as "two superior souls". In the same article, published on his blog, he condemns the 1978 Constitution, adopted after the end of the Franco regime.[8] He has also been directly linked with the far-right blog Dolça Catalunya, that contains anti-Catalanist, ultra-Catholic and discriminatory, mockery articles.[7][9]
Buxadé is a member of the Madrid Forum, an international alliance organized by Vox that comprises right-wing and far-right individuals.[10]
References
- "Key dates ahead". European Parliament. 20 May 2017. Retrieved 28 May 2019.
- "Key dates ahead". BBC News. 22 May 2017. Retrieved 28 May 2019.
- "Lista de los 54 eurodiputados elegidos este domingo en España". La Vanguardia. 26 May 2019. Retrieved 6 September 2019.
- Buxadé gana peso en Vox y será el portavoz en la nueva estrategia de comunicación Published by ABC on 22 February, 2020 and retrieved the same day (in Spanish)
- González, Miguel (10 May 2019). "Jorge Buxadé Villalba: un falangista en el Parlamento Europeo". El País (in Spanish). Retrieved 7 November 2019.
- Mateos, Roger (9 September 2014). "Un excandidat falangista fa equip amb Societat Civil Catalana". Ara.cat (in Catalan). Retrieved 7 November 2019.
- Borràs i Abelló 2015, p. 80-81.
- González, Miguel (10 May 2019). "Jorge Buxadé Villalba: Un falangista en el Parlamento Europeo". El País.
- Salvador, Xavier (8 September 2019). "Los nombres clave de 'Dolça Catalunya'" (in Spanish). Crónica Global. Archived from the original on 24 January 2022. Retrieved 25 July 2022.
- "Carta de Madrid". Fundación Disenso (in Spanish). Retrieved 7 December 2021.
Bibliografia
- Borràs i Abelló, Jordi (2015). Desmuntant Societat Civil Catalana (in Catalan). Edicions Saldonar. ISBN 9788494675355.
External links
- Official website: Lo antiguo es lo nuevo. jorgebuxade.wordpress.com.
Media related to Jorge Buxadé at Wikimedia Commons