Pablo Echenique

Pablo Echenique Robba[1] (born 28 August 1978 in Rosario, Santa Fe, Argentina) is an Argentine-born Spanish physicist and politician.

In this Spanish name, the first or paternal surname is Echenique and the second or maternal family name is Robba.
The Most Excellent
Pablo Echenique
MP
Pablo Echenique Robba in 2018.
Member of the Congress of Deputies
Assumed office
21 May 2019
ConstituencyZaragoza
Member of the Aragonese Corts
In office
18 June 2015 – 13 September 2017
ConstituencyZaragoza
Member of the European Parliament
In office
1 July 2014 – 14 March 2015
ConstituencySpain
Personal details
Born
Pablo Echenique Robba

(1978-08-28) 28 August 1978
Rosario, Argentina
Political partyPodemos
SpouseMaría Alejandra Nelo Bazán
EducationDoctorate in Physics
Alma materUniversidad de Zaragoza
OccupationPhysicist and politician

He came to Spain aged 13 to live in Zaragoza. He had Spinal muscular atrophy.[2] Echenique was elected a member of the Congress of Deputies in the April 2019 Spanish general election along with the left-wing political party Podemos.[3] Previously, Echenique was one of the five MEPs elected by Podemos in the 2014 European Parliament election, and was a member of the Aragonese Corts between 2015 and 2017.[4][5][6]

As a scientist, he holds a position at the Spanish National Research Council in Zaragoza (CSIC).[7]

In October 2020, he was fined €11,040 for the irregular employment of his assistant.[8] In November 2020, he was fined €80,000 for saying that a man who was murdered in 1985 was a rapist.[9]

References
  1. Pablo in Podemos page Archived 2015-02-22 at the Wayback Machine
  2. "En la izquierda a veces la gente se vuelve anticientífica" Published by Materia on 30 May 2014 Consulted 26 June 2014 (in Spanish)
  3. "Echenique Robba, Pablo". Congress of Deputies. Retrieved 11 June 2019. (in Spanish)
  4. López Alonso, Eduardo (26 May 2014). "Podemos, el partido revelación de Pablo Iglesias". El Periódico de Catalunya. Retrieved 3 July 2014. (in Spanish)
  5. Giménez San Miguel, Luis (28 May 2014). "Los otros diputados de Podemos". Público. Retrieved 3 July 2014. (in Spanish)
  6. "Echenique Robba, Pablo". Aragonese Corts. Retrieved 29 October 2016. (in Spanish)
  7. Mucha, Martín (1 June 2014). "El otro Pablo de Podemos". Crónica de El Mundo. Retrieved 26 June 2014. (in Spanish)
  8. "Ratifican la multa de 11.000 euros a Echenique por no haber cotizado por su asistente". La Voz de Galicia (in Spanish). 21 October 2020. Retrieved 11 February 2021.
  9. "Echenique y Del Olmo, condenados a pagar 80.000 euros por una falsa acusación de violación" (in Spanish). La Sexta. 17 November 2020. Retrieved 11 February 2021.


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