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 () is the lower house of the , Spain's legislative branch, the upper house being the Senate. The Congress meets in the Palace of the Parliament () in Madrid. Congress has 350 members elected from fifty-two constituencie ...

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

2015 Spanish general election A General elections in Spain, general election was held in Spain on Sunday, 20 December 2015, to elect the members of the 11th . All 350 seats in the Congress of Deputies were up for election, as well as 208 of 266 seats in the Senate of Spain, ...

he was elected to the

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

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as an adviser to the government of

Rafael Correa Rafael Vicente Correa Delgado (; born 6 April 1963) is an Ecuadorian politician and economist who served as the 45th president of Ecuador from 2007 to 2017. The leader of the PAIS Alliance political movement from its foundation until 2017, Corr ...

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

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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)