Txema Guijarro García (born 15 April 1975) is a

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economist and politician of Podemos party. He currently serves as

Member of the Congress of Deputies The Congress of Deputies ( es, link=no, Congreso de los Diputados, italic=unset) is the lower house of the Cortes Generales, Spain's legislative branch. The Congress meets in the Palace of the Parliament () in Madrid. It has 350 members elect ...

since 2016 and he chairs the Congress' Committee on Budget since 2019. At the

2015 Spanish general election The 2015 Spanish general election was held on Sunday, 20 December 2015, to elect the 11th Cortes Generales of the Kingdom of Spain. All 350 seats in the Congress of Deputies were up for election, as well as 208 of 266 seats in the Senate. At exac ...

he was elected to the

Congress of Deputies The Congress of Deputies ( es, link=no, Congreso de los Diputados, italic=unset) is the lower house of the Cortes Generales, Spain's legislative branch. The Congress meets in the Palacio de las Cortes, Madrid, Palace of the Parliament () in Ma ...

, representing Valencia province. Prior to his election, Guijarro had worked for 8 years in

Ecuador Ecuador ( ; ; Quechua: ''Ikwayur''; Shuar: ''Ecuador'' or ''Ekuatur''), officially the Republic of Ecuador ( es, República del Ecuador, which literally translates as "Republic of the Equator"; Quechua: ''Ikwadur Ripuwlika''; Shuar: ' ...

as an adviser to the government of

Rafael Correa Rafael Vicente Correa Delgado (; born 6 April 1963), known as Rafael Correa, is an Ecuadorian politician and economist who served as President of Ecuador from 2007 to 2017. The leader of the PAIS Alliance political movement from its foundation ...

.Un diputado de Iglesias trabajó ocho años para Correa en Ecuador
ABC, 24 December 2015

References

External links

Biography at Spanish Congress site
{{DEFAULTSORT:Guijarro Garcia, Txema 1975 births Living people Members of the 11th Congress of Deputies (Spain) Members of the 12th Congress of Deputies (Spain) Members of the 13th Congress of Deputies (Spain) Podemos (Spanish political party) politicians Politicians from Madrid Spanish economists Members of the 14th Congress of Deputies (Spain) Members of the 15th Congress of Deputies (Spain)