Íñigo Errejón MP |
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Errejón in 2015
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Member of the Congress of Deputies | |
Assumed office 7 January 2016 |
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Political Secretary of Podemos | |
Preceded by | Position established |
Personal details | |
Born |
Íñigo Errejón Galván 14 December 1983 Madrid, Spain |
Nationality | Spanish |
Political party | Podemos (2014–present) |
Alma mater | Complutense University |
Occupation | Researcher at the Complutense University of Madrid |
Íñigo Errejón Galván (born 14 December 1983) is a Spanish political scientist and politician, Doctor of Political Science and member of the editorial board of the political analysis journal Viento Sur. He is the Secretary for Policy and Strategy and Campaigning of the political party Podemos, whose electoral campaigns he has directed. He is a member of the Congress of Deputies.
Íñigo Errejón is the son of José Antonio Errejón Villacieros, career officer and senior official in the central government during the Transition in the Workers' Party of Spain, and was later one of the signatories of the Manifiesto de Tenerife, which marked the birth of the Greens in Spain, and was a member of Anticapitalistas.
Errejón was a scout during his adolescence.
He studied political science at the Complutense University of Madrid (UCM), where he earned a degree in 2006. During his time at university, he joined various leftist movements with which he participated in anti-globalization protests in Genoa (July 2001, against the meeting of the G8), Prague (September 2000, during the annual meeting of the board of governors of the IMF and World Bank) and Scotland (July 2005, against a new meeting of the G8). He also took part in the mobilizations against the Iraq War and the protests of 13 March 2004 in front of the headquarters of the People's Party in Madrid after the 11-M attacks.