Inés Arrimadas

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Inés Arrimadas (2017)

Inés Arrimadas García (born July 3, 1981 in Jerez de la Frontera , Spain ) is a lawyer and politician. She is party leader of the Ciudadanos party . Arrimadas was group leader of the Ciutadans group in the Catalan parliament since 2012 ; From April to December 2019 she was a member of the Spanish Chamber of Deputies ( Congreso de los Diputados ) in Madrid for Barcelona . She was elected party leader in March 2020.

Origin, education, profession

Inés Arrimadas is the youngest child of Rufino Arrimadas and Inés García, both originally from Salmoral, near Salamanca . Her father was a lawyer and worked as a local politician for the liberal-conservative Unión de Centro Democrático , the most influential party in Spain during the years of the Transición . She grew up as the youngest of a large family in Jerez de la Frontera, and during school she was a center forward in a girls' soccer team. Arrimadas attended a Catholic school and at the age of 18 went to Seville , where she studied law and business administration . She spent a semester abroad in Nice as part of the Erasmus program . After that she worked for various companies and went to Barcelona.

Political career

In 2010 she first came into contact with the newly founded Ciudadanos party in Barcelona . She became a member in 2011 and successfully ran for the Parliament of Catalonia in the 2012 regional elections . In June 2015 she was elected chairman of the Ciudadanos Group in the Catalan Parliament. She has been the opposition leader since the Catalan regional elections on September 27, 2015, in which her party won 25 out of 135 seats.

During the Catalonia crisis , on October 10, 2017, she stood before the Catalan regional parliament as an opposition leader against the independence of Catalonia from Spain, on the grounds that the future of Catalonia lies in Europe. She accused the independence advocates of forming the “antithesis to Europe” and of having “pulverized” both the regional parliament and the autonomy of Catalonia. In the regional elections ordered by the Spanish government on December 21, 2017 to resolve the crisis, she was the top candidate of her party for the presidency of the Generalitat de Catalunya and, with 37 seats, leads the party with the largest number of seats in the newly elected parliament. Due to the distribution of seats, in which the parties for independence, ERC, JuntsxCat and CUP together again achieved a narrow majority of the seats, she had no prospect of being elected regional president to succeed Carles Puigdemont .

In the elections of April 29, 2019 for the Congreso de los Diputados , she successfully ran as MP for Barcelona; but lost her seat of parliament in the elections on November 10, 2019 , in which Cuidadanos had suffered significant losses overall; this led to the resignation of the party founder Albert Rivera . In the elections for the new party leader in March 2020, Arrimadas was able to prevail with 77% of the vote.

Hostility

Because of her non-Catalan origins and her political positions, Inés Arrimadas is regularly the object of political hate speech ("traitor", "fascist") and misogynist abuse (a comedian on the Catalan public broadcaster TV3 , Toni Albà, called her a "cheap hooker" ; Call for mass rape on Facebook). Because of such hostility, she has been under constant personal protection ever since.

Web links

Commons : Inés Arrimadas  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Cecilia Hernández: "Siempre que puedo digo que soy salmantina porque así me siento" . El Norte de Castilla , March 4, 2015, accessed December 23, 2017 (Spanish).
  2. ↑ a b Thomas Urban The secret star of the Catalonia election sz.de , December 22, 2017.
  3. ↑ Inés Arrimadas García. Website of the Parliament of Catalonia , archived from the original on July 20, 2013 ; Retrieved December 23, 2017 (Catalan).
  4. ↑ Ray Sanchez, Natalie Gallon: Catalonia's president puts off declaration of split from Spain. CNN , October 11, 2017, accessed December 23, 2017 .
  5. ^ Daniel G. Sastre et al. a .: En directo: el Gobierno convoca un Consejo de Ministros extraordinario mañana. In: El Mundo . October 10, 2017, accessed on October 19, 2017 (Spanish): “Son la antítesis del proyecto europeo. […] Han pulverizado este parliament. Han pulverizado la autonomía de Cataluña. "
  6. ↑ El Mundo: Arrimadas se va al Congreso para hacer oposición a Sánchez , April 29, 2019 (Spanish)
  7. ↑ Arrimadas gana las primarias y se convierte en presidenta de Ciudadanos. El País, March 8, 2020, accessed March 9, 2020 (Spanish).
  8. ↑ El Español: "Malparida", "cerda", "que te violen en grupo": Arrimadas, bajo la escalada del odio 'indepe' , July 16, 2018, accessed on 30. August 2018 (Spanish)
personal data
SURNAME Arrimadas, Inés
ALTERNATIVE NAMES García Arrimadas, Inés
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Spanish lawyer and politician for the Ciudadanos party
DATE OF BIRTH 3rd July 1981
PLACE OF BIRTH Jerez de la Frontera , Spain