José Manuel López Rodrigo (born 1966) is a Spanish activist and politician. He has been a member of the 10th

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in the Podemos parliamentary group.

Biography

Born on 8 June 1966 in

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, he is a neighbor of Manoteras, in the district of

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. Active in the associative and Christian grassroots movements, he founded the radio station ''Radio Enlace''. He obtained a degree as Agronomy Engineer at the

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(UPM) and a diplomature in Territorial Ordering, Rural Development and Environment at the

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(UPV). He worked for Caritas and the Tomillo foundation. During the government of

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, he also served as director of the state-funded Pluralismo y Convivencia Foundation, dependent on the

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, charged with the collaboration with minority religious confessions. He ran as head of the Podemos list in the May 2015 regional election in Madrid;: elected member of the regional legislature, he became the spokesperson of the Podemos parliamentary group in the chamber. In December 2016, after the Ramón Espinar's victory in the Podemos regional primaries in Madrid in November 2016, López, considered a member of the '' errejonista'' faction, was replaced as spokesperson of the parliamentary group by

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. In March 2019 he was left out from the list led by

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to the primary election to choose the electoral list of

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vis-à-vis the

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. He declare "that is the state of things, (these things) are proposals coming from the (party) management, I have come here for four years, and I will keep on working in other areas".

References

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