Maria José Rodríguez de Millán Parro (born 1 January 1995), better known as Pepa Millán, is a Spanish lawyer, columnist and

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. She is a member of parliament for

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and spokesperson for Vox in the

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since July 2023. After graduating in Law from the

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(2018), she completed her university education with a double master's degree in Access to the Legal Profession and Contract Law and Civil Liability, Consumer Law and Extracontractual Liability at the Pablo de Olavide University (2020). She also studied for the competitive examination to become a Property Registrar. Previously she had been a columnist for the newspaper .

Political career

Millán began as an advisor to the Vox Parliamentary Group in the XI legislature of the Andalusian Parliament. Much of her work in the party focused on the areas of: employment, equality, advocacy and the presidency. In the 2022 Elections to the Parliament of Andalusia she ran as number two for the constituency of Cordoba. Based on the representation granted by the results of said autonomic elections to each political formation, the senators appointed by the

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were appointed, and VOX was assigned one senator, who was to be Jacobo González-Robatto, but the established criterion of the obligatory quotas of men and women obliges VOX to appoint a woman after knowing who are those elected by both the Popular Party and the

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(Spanish: Partido Socialista Obrero Español, PSOE), so that, on July 26, 2022, Pepa Millán, only twenty-seven years old, is elected to represent VOX in the Senate for Andalusia. In the Senate she starred in tough debates with the Government of

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. In the general elections of June 2023, she was candidate number five for the Madrid constituency, being elected deputy, and is designated by Vox as its spokesperson in the Lower House during the XV Cortes Generales.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Millan, Pepa 1995 births Living people Vox (political party) politicians Spanish columnists 21st-century Spanish women politicians Women members of the Congress of Deputies (Spain) Politicians from Madrid Members of the 15th Congress of Deputies (Spain)