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Inés Arrimadas

Inés Arrimadas García
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Constituency Barcelona
Member of the Catalan Parliament
Assumed office
25 November 2012
Leader of the Opposition in the Parliament of Catalonia
Assumed office
October 2, 2015
Preceded by Oriol Junqueras
Personal details
Born (1981-07-03) 3 July 1981 (age 35)
Jerez de la Frontera
Political party Citizens – Party of the Citizenry (2011–present)
Alma mater Pablo de Olavide University
Occupation Lawyer

Inés Arrimadas García (Jerez de la Frontera, born July 3, 1981) is one of the one hundred and thirty-five members of parliament the Parliament of Catalonia and is spokesperson for the Citizens party Catalonia.

She became a member of the party in 2011 and she first started being the spokesperson of the youth section. She became a member of parliament after the 2012 election.

Inés is the youngest of 5 children born to Rufino Arrimades and Inés García, both of whom came from Salmoral in the Province of Salamanca.

Inés studied at the fee-paying Catholic school Nuestra Señora del Pilar in Jerez de la Frontera. She dreamed of being an archaeologist and showed a great interest in the culture of Catalonia, to the point of taking language lessons from a Catalan classmate.

She was also a passionate fan of FC Barcelona

At 18 Inés began studying law at Pablo de Olavide University. She also undertook postgraduate studies in international business at IPAG Business School in Nice organised through the Erasmus programme.

At 24, Inés worked for a year and a half in the petrochemical industry.

For 6 years she worked as a consultant at D'Aleph in Barcelona, moving to the city in 2008.

Inés became interested in Citizens in 2010 and the following year she became the party's youth spokesperson.


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