Antonio Gallego Burgos (born 2 October 1975) is a Spanish politician. He served as a member of the Congress of Deputies from 2008 to 2015 as a member of the People's Party before standing for the Parliament of Catalonia in 2015, resigning his seat six months later.
Antonio Gallego Burgos | |
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| Member of the Parliament of Catalonia | |
| Assumed office 14 February 2021 | |
| Constituency | Barcelona |
| Member of the Congress of Deputies | |
| In office 31 March 2008 – 26 October 2015 | |
| Constituency | Barcelona |
| Personal details | |
| Born | Antonio Gallego Burgos 2 October 1975 Barcelona, Spain |
| Political party | Independent (since 2022) |
| Other political affiliations | Vox (2021–2022) People's Party (1999–2019) Convergència i Unió (before 1999) |
| Alma mater | University of Barcelona |
In 2021, he was again elected to the Parliament of Catalonia representing the Vox party. He left the party in 2022, remaining in the Parliament as a non-inscrit.
Biography
editBurgos comes from a Catalan family and is a native of Barcelona. He studied an economics degree at the University of Barcelona. He was originally a member of the Catalan nationalist Convergència i Unió movement but became active in the People's Party of Catalonia and was a spokesman for the party in the region of El Prat de Llobregat where he was elected as a councilor.[1] In the 2008 Spanish general election, he was elected to the Congress of Deputies representing the Barcelona constituency and was re-elected in 2011.[2] In 2015, he stood down from the Congress to contest elections in the Parliament of Catalonia in September but resigned his seat in November of the same year.[3]
In 2021, he announced on Twitter he had joined the Vox party and was again elected as a deputy to the Catalan Parliament for the Barcelona district. Although a native Catalan speaker himself, Burgos has accused Catalan nationalists of trying to teach children only Catalan in order to foster separation from the region with the rest of Spain.[4] Burgos is also a member of the Small and Medium Sized Business Association of Catalonia.[5]
References
edit- ^ "Gallego Burgos, Antonio". Retrieved 2022-05-30.
- ^ "Boletín Oficial del Parlamento de Cataluña, 3-11-2015, página 7" (PDF) (in Catalan).
- ^ "The popular Antonio Gallego renounces his deputy act in the Parliament". El País. 2 November 2015. Retrieved 2022-05-30.
- ^ "A politician with principles". 13 August 2021. Retrieved 2022-05-30.
- ^ "I. Sr. Antonio Gallego Burgos". Retrieved 2022-05-30.