Jesús García-Conde

Jesús María García-Conde del Castillo is a Spanish former politician. As a member of Vox, he was his party's first member elected to the Cortes of Castile and León in 2019, and resigned in January 2021.

Biography

Born in Valladolid, García-Conde obtained a degree in economics from the University of Valladolid and a master's degree in the same subject from the National University of Distance Education (UNED).[1] As of 2019, he had 15 years of experience in business management, including at Ericsson and Vodafone.[1]

García-Conde joined Vox in their founding year of 2014, becoming their vice president in Valladolid and a member of their national executive.[2] He was announced as their candidate for President of the Regional Government of Castile and León in the 2019 Castilian-Leonese regional election.[2] Running in the Valladolid constituency, he was Vox's only member elected to the Cortes of Castile and León.[3] He sat in the mixed group in the parliament, alongside representatives from Podemos, For Ávila and the Leonese People's Union.[4] In a press conference a month after his election, he proposed replacing the gender violence law with a domestic violence law independent of gender in the region, despite the gender violence law being a nationwide statute.[3] In October 2019, García-Conde vetoed a prospective declaration of the Cortes to commit to fight climate change; the statement required unanimous approval.[5]

On 28 January 2021, García-Conde resigned his parliamentary seat; the second name on the Vox list, José Ignacio de Uribe, declined the seat, so it went to the third name, Fátima Pinacho.[4] While García-Conde ascribed his resignation to his professional and personal life in Madrid, sources within Vox told local newspaper El Norte de Castilla that there was a local split in the party between García-Conde's followers who had been with the party from the start, and a second group built around city council candidate Javier García Bartolomé.[4]

References

  1. ^ a b "El economista García-Conde será el candidato de Vox a la Junta" [Economist García-Conde will be Vox's candidate for the Regional Government]. Diario de Valladolid (in Spanish). 24 April 2019. Retrieved 4 March 2026.
  2. ^ a b "Jesús García-Conde del Castillo, candidato de VOX a la Junta de Castilla y León" [Jesús García-Conde del Castillo, Vox candidate for the Regional Government of Castile and León]. ABC (in Spanish). 10 May 2019. Retrieved 4 March 2026.
  3. ^ a b "Una periodista pone en evidencia a un diputado de Vox en Castilla y León" [Journalist exposes Vox deputy in Castile and León]. La Vanguardia (in Spanish). 22 June 2019. Retrieved 4 March 2026.
  4. ^ a b c Escribano, Susana (28 January 2021). "El único procurador de Vox, Jesús García-Conde, deja su escaño en las Cortes de Castilla y León" [Vox's only deputy, Jesús García-Conde, leaves his seat in the Cortes of Castile and León]. El Norte de Castilla (in Spanish). Retrieved 4 March 2026.
  5. ^ "Vox veta una declaración en las Cortes de Castilla y León sobre la lucha contra el cambio climático" [Vox vetoes a declaration in the Cortes of Castile and León on the fight against climate change] (in Spanish). Burgos Conecta. 8 October 2019. Retrieved 4 March 2026.
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