Film & TV
Known for
- The Great Illusion — Self2021
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Key facts
- Vice president
- Jorge Buxadé , Ignacio Garriga
- Preceded by
- José Luis González Quirós
- Constituency
- Madrid
- President
- Esperanza Aguirre
- Succeeded by
- Position abolished
- Born
- Santiago Abascal Conde , ( 1976-04-14 ) 14 April 1976 (age 50) , Bilbao , Basque Country , Spain
- Party
- Vox (since 2014)
- Other political affiliations
- People's Party (1994–2013)
- Spouse s
- Ana Belén Sánchez Cenador ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 2002 ; divorced</span>"}]]}'>div. 2010 ) , Lidia Bedman ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 2018 )
- Parent
- Santiago Abascal Escuza (father)
- Alma mater
- University of Deusto
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Santiago
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Spain
- Place of birth
- Bilbao
- Father
- Santiago Abascal Escuza
- Occupation
- essayist
- Educated at
- University of Deusto
- Political party
- Vox
- Languages spoken
- Spanish
- Native language
- Spanish
- Religion
- Catholicism
- Movement
- opposition to immigration
- Official website
- www.santiagoabascal.es
- Image
- Santiago Abascal CPAC 2024 (2).jpg
- Number of children
- 5
- Work location
- Madrid
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- Commons category
- Santiago Abascal Conde
- date of birth
- 1976-04-14
- name in native language
- Santiago Abascal Conde
- medical condition
- COVID-19
- social media followers
- 738157
- start of work period
- 1999-00-00
- candidacy in election
- 2014 European Parliament election in Spain
- P10632
- Santiago Abascal
- political alignment
- far-right politics
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Encyclopedic overview
Santiago Abascal Conde ( Spanish: [sanˈtjaɣo aβasˈkal ˈkonde]; born 14 April 1976) is a Spanish politician who has been the president of Vox, a far-right political party, since 2014. He has also been the president of Patriots.eu since 2024, and has been a member of the Congress of Deputies representing Madrid since 2019.
Before the creation of Vox, Abascal was a member of the centre-right People's Party. As member he served as legislator in the Basque Parliament, founded the Spanish nationalist group Fundación para la Defensa de la Nación Española ('Foundation for the Defence of the Spanish Nation', abbr. Fundación DENAES), and was appointed the director of two public agencies of the Community of Madrid.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Santiago Abascal” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.