Pablo Echenique

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
In office 21 May 2019 – 17 August 2023
Constituency	Zaragoza
Member of the Aragonese Corts
In office 18 June 2015 – 13 September 2017
Constituency	Zaragoza
Member of the European Parliament
In office 1 July 2014 – 14 March 2015
Constituency	Spain
Personal details
Born	Pablo Echenique Robba (1978-08-28) 28 August 1978 (age 46) Rosario, Argentina
Political party	Podemos
Spouse	María Alejandra Nelo Bazán
Education	Doctorate in Physics
Alma mater	Universidad de Zaragoza
Occupation	Physicist and politician

Pablo Echenique Robba[1] (born 28 August 1978 in Rosario, Santa Fe, Argentina) is an Argentine-born Spanish physicist and politician. As a scientist, he holds a position at the Spanish National Research Council in Zaragoza (CSIC).[2]

He came to Spain aged 13 to live in Zaragoza. He had Spinal muscular atrophy.[3] 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.[4] 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.[5][6][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] The Supreme Court subsequently annulled this conviction after concluding that he did not make a direct accusation against the plaintiff's brother, but rather expressed a show of solidarity with his political colleague.[10]

References

1. Pablo in Podemos page Archived 2015-02-22 at the Wayback Machine
2. Mucha, Martín (1 June 2014). "El otro Pablo de Podemos". Crónica de El Mundo. Retrieved 26 June 2014. (in Spanish)
3. "En la izquierda a veces la gente se vuelve anticientífica" Published by Materia on 30 May 2014 Consulted 26 June 2014 (in Spanish)
4. "Echenique Robba, Pablo". Congress of Deputies. Retrieved 11 June 2019. (in Spanish)
5. López Alonso, Eduardo (26 May 2014). "Podemos, el partido revelación de Pablo Iglesias". El Periódico de Catalunya. Retrieved 3 July 2014. (in Spanish)
6. Giménez San Miguel, Luis (28 May 2014). "Los otros diputados de Podemos". Público. Retrieved 3 July 2014. (in Spanish)
7. "Echenique Robba, Pablo". Aragonese Corts. Retrieved 29 October 2016. (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.
10. Pozas, Alberto (17 October 2022). "El Supremo anula la condena de Echenique a pagar 80.000 euros por acusar a un hombre de violación". eldiario.es.

External links

• Pablo Echenique on Facebook
• Pablo Echenique on Twitter
• De retrones y hombres (in Spanish)
• Pablo Echenique Robba at the European Parliament