Pepa Millán

In this Spanish name, the first or paternal surname is Rodríguez de Millán and the second or maternal family name is Parro.

Pepa Millán
Member of the Senate
In office July 28, 2022 – May 29, 2023
Constituency	Parliament of Andalusia
Member of the Congress of Deputies
Incumbent
Assumed office August 17, 2023
Constituency	Madrid
Spokesperson of Vox in the Congress of Deputies
Incumbent
Assumed office August 16, 2023
Personal details
Born	Maria José Rodríguez de Millán Parro 1 January 1995 Cabra (Córdoba), Andalusia, Spain
Political party	Vox
Alma mater	University of Seville Pablo de Olavide University
Occupation	Lawyer, columnist, politician

Maria José Rodríguez de Millán Parro (born 1 January 1995),[1] better known as Pepa Millán, is a Spanish lawyer, columnist and politician. She is a member of parliament for Madrid and spokesperson for Vox in the Congress of Deputies since July 2023.[2]

After graduating in Law from the University of Seville (2018), she completed her university education with a double master's degree in Access to the Legal Profession and Contract Law and Civil Liability, Consumer Law and Extracontractual Liability at the Pablo de Olavide University (2020). She also studied for the competitive examination to become a Property Registrar. Previously she had been a columnist for the newspaper La Razón.[3][4]

Political career

Millán began as an advisor to the Vox Parliamentary Group in the XI legislature of the Andalusian Parliament.[5] Much of her work in the party focused on the areas of: employment, equality, advocacy and the presidency.[6]

In the 2022 Elections to the Parliament of Andalusia he ran as number two for the constituency of Cordoba.[7] Based on the representation granted by the results of said autonomic elections to each political formation, the senators appointed by the Parliament of Andalusia were appointed, and VOX was assigned one senator, who was to be Jacobo González-Robatto, but the established criterion of the obligatory quotas of men and women obliges VOX to appoint a woman after knowing who are those elected by both the Popular Party and the Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (Spanish: Partido Socialista Obrero Español, PSOE), so that, on July 26, 2022, Pepa Millán, only twenty-seven years old, is elected to represent VOX in the Senate for Andalusia.[8] In the Senate she starred in tough debates with the Government of Pedro Sánchez.[9]

In the general elections of June 2023, she was candidate number five for the Madrid constituency,[10] being elected deputy, and is designated by Vox as its spokesperson in the Lower House during the XV Cortes Generales.[2]

References

1. "Abascal renueva Vox en el Congreso con la joven Pepa Millán como portavoz". ELMUNDO (in Spanish). August 16, 2023. Retrieved August 28, 2023.
2. "Quién es Pepa Millán, nueva portavoz de Vox en el Congreso: andaluza, taurina y seguidora de Juan Pablo II". ElHuffPost (in Spanish). August 16, 2023. Retrieved August 28, 2023.
3. "Pepa Millán, la nueva portavoz de Vox: 28 años, abogada, taurina y fan de Juan Pablo II". ELMUNDO (in Spanish). August 16, 2023. Retrieved August 28, 2023.
4. "'VOX tiene el objetivo de apartar a la izquierda y devolver la prosperidad a Andalucía'". La Gaceta de la Iberosfera. Madrid. June 15, 2022. Retrieved August 16, 2023.
5. "La abogada Pepa Millán será la nueva portavoz de la ultraderecha en el Congreso de los Diputados". La Vanguardia (in Spanish). August 16, 2023. Retrieved August 28, 2023.
6. "Pepa Millán, nueva portavoz de Vox en el Congreso en sustitución de Espinosa de los Monteros". Europa Press. August 16, 2023. Retrieved August 28, 2023.
7. "Pepa Millán". Libertad Digital (in European Spanish). Retrieved August 28, 2023.
8. España, Senado de. "Senado de España: home". www.senado.es (in Spanish). Retrieved August 28, 2023.
9. "Pepa Millán sustituirá a Espinosa de los Monteros como portavoz en el Congreso de Vox". EXPANSION (in Spanish). August 16, 2023. Retrieved August 28, 2023.
10. "Abascal nombra a Pepa Millán portavoz en el Congreso tras la salida de Espinosa de los Monteros". publico.es. August 16, 2023. Retrieved August 28, 2023.