Jaume Asens | |
Honorific-Suffix: | MEP |
Office: | Member of the European Parliament |
Termstart: | 16 July 2024 |
Constituency: | Spain |
Office2: | Member of the Congress of Deputies |
Termstart2: | 21 May 2019 |
Term End2: | 17 August 2023 |
Constituency2: | Barcelona |
Office3: | Member of the Barcelona City Council |
Term Start3: | 13 June 2015 |
Term End3: | 15 June 2019 |
Birth Date: | df=y 29 March 1972 |
Birthname: | Jaume Asens Llodrà |
Party: | Barcelona en Comú (since 2014) Catalunya en Comú (since 2017) |
Otherparty: | European Green Party |
Jaume Asens Llodrà (pronounced as /ca/; born 29 March 1972) is a Spanish politician of Catalunya en Comú who was elected member of the European Parliament in 2024.[1]
Asens was a co-founder of Barcelona en Comú, and served as a deputy mayor of Barcelona under Ada Colau.[2] He was the lead candidate of En Comú Podem for the Barcelona constituency in the 2019 general elections, and was elected to the Congress of Deputies. In 2020 he succeeded Pablo Iglesias Turrión as president of the Unidas Podemos parliamentary group, and served until 2023 when he chose not to run for re-election to the chamber.[3]