Pablo Echenique | |
Honorific-Prefix: | The Most Excellent |
Honorific-Suffix: | MP |
Birth Name: | Pablo Echenique Robba |
Office1: | Member of the Congress of Deputies |
Term Start1: | 21 May 2019 |
Term End1: | 17 August 2023 |
Constituency1: | Zaragoza |
Office2: | Member of the Aragonese Corts |
Term Start2: | 18 June 2015 |
Term End2: | 13 September 2017 |
Constituency2: | Zaragoza |
Office3: | Member of the European Parliament |
Term Start3: | 1 July 2014 |
Term End3: | 14 March 2015 |
Constituency3: | Spain |
Birth Date: | 28 August 1978 |
Birth Place: | Rosario, Argentina |
Occupation: | Physicist and politician |
Alma Mater: | Universidad de Zaragoza |
Education: | Doctorate in Physics |
Party: | Podemos |
Spouse: | María Alejandra Nelo Bazán |
Pablo Echenique Robba[1] (born 28 August 1978 in Rosario, Santa Fe, Argentina) is an Argentine-born Spanish physicist and politician. As a scientist, he holds a position at the Spanish National Research Council in Zaragoza (CSIC).[2]
He came to Spain aged 13 to live in Zaragoza. He had Spinal muscular atrophy.[3] Echenique was elected a member of the Congress of Deputies in the April 2019 Spanish general election along with the left-wing political party Podemos.[4] Previously, Echenique was one of the five MEPs elected by Podemos in the 2014 European Parliament election, and was a member of the Aragonese Corts between 2015 and 2017.[5] [6] [7]
In October 2020, he was fined €11,040 for the irregular employment of his assistant.[8] In November 2020, he was fined €80,000 for saying that a man who was murdered in 1985 was a rapist.[9] The Supreme Court subsequently annulled this conviction after concluding that he did not make a direct accusation against the plaintiff's brother, but rather expressed a show of solidarity with his political colleague.[10]