Juan Jose Aizcorbe Torra | |
Honorific-Suffix: | MP |
Office1: | Member of the Congress of Deputies |
Term Start1: | 21 May 2019 |
Constituency1: | Barcelona |
Birth Date: | 9 July 1959 |
Birth Place: | Barcelona, Kingdom of Spain |
Party: | Vox (2018-) Spanish Democratic Party (1998-2008) People's Party (1990-1997) |
Alma Mater: | University of Barcelona |
Juan Jose Aizcorbe Torra (born 9 July 1959) is a Spanish politician and lawyer who is a deputy in the Congress of Deputies for the Vox party.
Torra holds a law degree from the University of Barcelona and a master's in business studies ESIC University in Madrid. He was called to the bar in Barcelona before working as a lawyer specializing in bankruptcy law in the private sector.[1] [2]
He describes himself as a practicing Catholic and is married with three children.[1]
He was associated to the Juntas Españolas in Barcelona, but left the organisation after describing it as too radical and joined the People's Party.[3] In 1998, he led the Spanish Democratic Party (PADE) in Catalonia.
Since 2018, he has been a member of Vox and was elected to the Congress of Deputies in the November 2019 Spanish general election for the Barcelona constituency.