Iván Espinosa de los Monteros y de Simón (born 3 January 1971) is a Spanish real estate developer and former politician who served as

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for the Madrid constituency from 2019 to 2023. As a prominent member of the Spanish

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political party Vox, Espinosa served as

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of the Vox Parliamentary Group in

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. Within Vox, he was the Deputy Secretary for International Relations.

Biography

Espinosa was born in the

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in 1971. He is one of the five sons of executive

Carlos Espinosa de los Monteros y Bernaldo de Quirós Carlos Espinosa de los Monteros y Bernaldo de Quirós, 4th Marquess of Valtierra (born 1944) is a Spanish peer, executive and civil servant. He is the father of politician Iván Espinosa de los Monteros. Biography He was born on 18 March 1944 ...

, 4th Marquess of Valtierra, and his wife, María Eugenia de Simón y Vallarino. Espinosa studied Economic and Business Sciences at the Catholic Institute of Business Administration and Management (ICADE) and got an

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at the

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. In 2001, he married

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, a Spanish-Cuban architect, with whom he has four children. The couple has sometimes worked together in the

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, buying unused spaces to convert them into luxury homes designed by Monasterio. He has held senior positions in several international financial groups such as

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. He himself owns several companies in the luxury housing and restaurant sector. He speaks Spanish, Catalan, English and French.

Political career

Linked to the political party Vox since its foundation in 2013, he held the position of General Secretary of the Provisional Organizing Committee before the celebration of the first party congress. In that congress, he was elected Secretary-General of the party until October 2016 when he assumed as Deputy Secretary for International Relations. He was part of the electoral list of Vox in the 2014 European election in Spain, led by former First Vice President of the European Parliament Vidal-Quadras. Vox did not obtain representation. He also bid for a seat of senator representing

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in the 2015 and 2016 general elections, failing to become a member of the Upper House after receiving, respectively, and votes, well short of the and votes obtained by the last elected senator in each election.: : A noted orator, Espinosa has represented his party in various political gatherings on television. Likewise, he has manifested himself in favor of the unity of Spain and the

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and has stated that he has been a voter of the People's Party, a formation to which he is currently critical. Espinosa has criticized the 2004 Gender Violence Act on several occasions and he has also manifested himself in favor of the criminalisation of parties not believing in the "unity of Spain" and of those that "do not renege on

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." For the 2019 general election, Espinosa was chosen to occupy the third place in the electoral list of Vox to the

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. On 28 April, he was elected MP for

. On 21 May he was appointed

of the Vox Parliamentary Group in the Congress. He left the party in August 2023, shortly after

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Legal cases

In April 2019, the digital newspaper eldiario.es reported that a court in

had sentenced a company, of which Espinosa was the only shareholder and administrator, to pay part of a debt it had contracted with a construction company that he had hired to carry out some works in a house in Madrid and on which there were discrepancies. Espinosa had paid part of the necessary repairs whose amount the court deducted from the amount claimed. The sentence was ratified by the Provincial Court of Madrid. In November 2019, Espinosa said on Antena 3's ''Espejo Público'' programme that per capita, immigrants are three times more likely to commit rape than Spaniards. The lawyer Hilal Tarkou initiated legal action, but in December 2020 a judge closed the case because he found that no crime was committed.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Espinosa de los Monteros, Iván 1971 births Kellogg School of Management alumni Living people Politicians from the Community of Madrid Spanish nationalists Male critics of feminism Critics of multiculturalism Members of the 13th Congress of Deputies (Spain) Spanish economists Vox (political party) politicians Members of the 14th Congress of Deputies (Spain) Spanish untitled nobility Members of the 15th Congress of Deputies (Spain)