Cayetana Álvarez de Toledo

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Cayetana Álvarez de Toledo (2019)

Cayetana Álvarez de Toledo y Peralta-Ramos (born October 15, 1974 in Madrid ), 14th Marquise of Casa Fuerte, is a Spanish journalist, historian and politician. As a member of the Partido Popular (PP) , she was a member of the Spanish Parliament for Madrid in the 9th and 10th legislative periods (from 2008 to 2015) and for Barcelona from 2019. Cayetana Álvarez de Toledo is head of the international department of the FAES ( Fundación para el Análisis y los Estudios Sociales , a foundation close to the PP) and works as a columnist for the conservative newspaper El Mundo .

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She was born in Madrid to a French father and an Argentine mother. In addition to her Spanish nationality, she has French and Argentine citizenship; In 2007 she also took on Spanish citizenship. She is the daughter of Juan Illán Álvarez from Toledo y Giraud, 12th Margrave of Casa Fuerte, who fought in the ranks of the French resistance movement in World War II, and Patricia Peralta-Ramos y Madero and thus belongs to the noble family of Álvarez de Toledo .

Cayetana spent her youth between the United Kingdom and Argentina; She studied and received her PhD in Modern History at Oxford University in 2000 (with a dissertation on politics and reform in Spain and Mexico in the 17th century using the example of Juan de Palafox ( Politics and Reform in Spain and Viceregal Mexico: The Life and Thought of Juan de Palafox, 1600–1659 )) From 2001 to 2018 she was married to the entrepreneur Joaquín Güell; the couple has two daughters.

Since 2000 Cayetana has been a journalist for the daily newspaper El Mundo; from 2004 employee at the radio station COPE. From 2006 she heads the cabinet of the General Secretary of the Partido Popular; In 2008 she was elected to the Spanish Chamber of Deputies as a MP from Madrid's PP. Politically, she took conservative positions and opposed Catalan nationalism in particular. In 2015, she announced that she would no longer run for parliamentary elections in protest against Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy's line of indulgence . After Rajoy's resignation, she was put in first place in the PP for the province of Barcelona in March 2019 by the new leader of the PP, Pablo Casado , for the early Spanish parliamentary elections on April 28, 2019 ; she is considered a popular and strongly polarizing politician who is insulted and attacked by Catalan separatists as a “fascist” and who serves as a figure of identification for the PP, who was beaten off in Catalonia. She was elected as the only MP of the PP in Catalonia, and became spokeswoman for the PP group in parliament. In August 2020, Pablo Casado removed her from this position because her positions were seen as too extreme and as an obstacle to possible political alliances.

Works

  • Juan de Palafox: Obispo y Virrey (Marcial Pons Ediciones de Historia, 2011). ISBN 978-8492820313
  • Politics and Reform in Spain and Viceregal Mexico: The Life and Thought of Juan De Palafox 1600-1659 (Oxford Historical Monographs, 2004). ISBN 978-0199270286

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ in Renaissance Quarterly, Volume 59, Number 1, Spring 2006 [1]
  2. ↑ El Mundo: Cayetana Álvarez de Toledo sufre insultos y empujones en la Autónoma de Barcelona , April 12, 2019, accessed on April 26, 2019 (Spanish)
  3. ↑ El Pais: ¿Es Cayetana la más facha? La popular Álvarez de Toledo se convierte en la mayor sorpresa y agitadora de la campaña electoral , April 26, 2019, accessed the same day (Spanish)
  4. ↑ La Vanguardia: El PP, al borde de la extinción en Catalunya: “Esto es una derrota rotunda, contundente y muy clara” , April 29, 2019, accessed on the same day (Spanish)

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SURNAME Álvarez de Toledo, Cayetana
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Álvarez de Toledo y Peralta-Ramos, Cayetana
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Spanish politician (PP)
DATE OF BIRTH October 15, 1974
PLACE OF BIRTH Madrid