Juan Ignacio Moreno de Acevedo Yagüe (born 1973), better known as Juan Moreno Yagüe, is a Spanish lawyer, activist and politician. He is a specialist in banking, mortgages, and criminal and economic law.

Biography

Born on 29 May 1973 in

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to a family with a tradition in law, his mother a teacher and his father a judge, he is married with two children. He was raised in Villafranca de los Barros,

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and Montijo before moving at age nine to

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. After earning a

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in Law, he unsuccessfully tried to pass the competitive public examinations in order to become a judge; he desisted and founded a

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instead. He took part in the

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through

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. He also participated in the anti-eviction movement. Keen of the online alias ''hackabogado'', Moreno Yagüe, promoter of initiatives such as Democracia 4.0, and #Opeuribor. He has been (2012-2014) one of the lawyers hired by 15MpaRato movement, the citizen platform that uncovered the Bankia Case that brought

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to trial. He has taken part in the X Party since its inception, he ran 6th in the party list for the

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. The party failed to obtain representation. Moreno Yagüe ran 2nd in the Podemos list for

vis-à-vis the

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, and, elected, became a member of the 10th term of the

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, where he served as 3rd Vice-President of the governing board of the legislature. In February 2017, he contested the Podemos leadership voting to determine the party's Secretary-General in the 2nd Citizen Assembly ("Vistalegre II"), presenting himself as the single alternative to the leadership of Pablo Iglesias. Running in a platform vouching for

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and

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, he commanded the support of members (10.9%) vs the votes (89%) commanded by Iglesias. His policy manifesto was focussed on

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and eliminating the bank payment system, replacing banks with a mobile application where each person manages his or her own money without having to rely on a bank to manage it. In August and October 2017, he published two legal analyses on the unconstitutionality of the Spanish State Government's intervention of the Autonomy of Catalonia, in particular of the agreements relating to the application of Article 155 of the

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References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Moreno Yague, Juan Members of the 10th Parliament of Andalusia 21st-century Spanish lawyers 1973 births Living people Podemos (Spanish political party) politicians People from Salamanca