Juan Carlos Girauta
| Juan Carlos Girauta | |
|---|---|
| Member of the European Parliament | |
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In office 1 July 2014 – 11 January 2016 |
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| Succeeded by | Carolina Punset |
| Constituency | Spain |
| Personal details | |
| Born |
12 March 1961 (age 57) Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain |
| Nationality | Spanish |
| Political party | Citizens |
| Other political affiliations |
Socialists' Party of Catalonia People's Party (Spain) |
| Occupation | Politician |
Juan Carlos Girauta (born 12 March 1961), is a Spanish politician, who, from July 2014 until January 2016 served as a Member of the European Parliament, representing Spain for the Citizens political party.
A former PSC member, Girauta later joined the PP and became a prolific contributor to conservative journalism from his Libertad Digital column, before becoming a Citizens member and candidate in the 2014 European Election. During his long tenure as Libertad Digital columnist and COPE debater, Girauta expressed strong sympathies for right-wing Zionism (to the point of calling then-president Zapatero an anti-Semite) and lent credibility to the now discredited book by Victor Farías dismissing Socialist politician Salvador Allende as a racist and a Social Darwinist, without clarifying that the quotations about genetic determinism in Allende's doctoral dissertation were themselves quotations from other authors (mostly Cesare Lombroso) or the fact that Allende was highly critical of these conclusions in his thesis, which was later published as a rebuttal to Farías' position. Farías was later sued for this but Girauta never retracted his statements.
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