Iván Redondo Bacaicoa (born 1981) is a Spanish political advisor who served as the 11th

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from 2018 to 2021.

Biography

Born in 1981 in

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, he obtained a degree in Humanities and Communication at the

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. He worked as advisor for

Xavier García Albiol Xavier García Albiol (born 8 December 1967) is a Spanish politician and member of the People's Party. He has been the president of the Badalona branch of his party since 1990, and he was the mayor of Badalona between 2011 and 2015, and again ...

during the campaign of the People's Party (PP) politician for the 2011 Badalona municipal election, after which García Albiol became Mayor of Badalona. Appointed in 2012 as Chief of Staff of the Presidency of the

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(an office with rank of regional minister), serving as advisor to José Antonio Monago, also a PP politician. He also worked in the Basque Country as advisor of PP's Antonio Basagoiti. He began working with

Pedro Sánchez Pedro Sánchez Pérez-Castejón (; born 29 February 1972) is a Spanish politician who has been Prime Minister of Spain since June 2018. He has also been Secretary-General of the Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE) since June 2017, having pr ...

during the preparation of the

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(PSOE) primary election in 2017. He is credited with having planned the

2018 vote of no confidence in the government of Mariano Rajoy A motion of no confidence in the Spanish government of Mariano Rajoy was debated and voted in the Congress of Deputies between 31 May and 1 June 2018. It was brought by Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE) leader Pedro Sánchez after the gover ...

. Following the success of the later and the subsequent investiture of Pedro Sánchez as new

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, he was appointed as Chief of Staff of the Cabinet Office of the Presidency of the Government through a

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issued on 8 June and published in the ''BOE'' a day later. He was sworn in on 11 June. On 25 January 2021 he tested positive for

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during

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, but with no symptoms and had no professional contact with anyone in the last 24 hours. In July 2021 he was replaced as chief of staff by Óscar López in large cabinet reshuffle.

References

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