Rocío de Meer | |
Honorific-Suffix: | MP |
Office1: | Member of the Congress of Deputies |
Term Start1: | 21 May 2019 |
Constituency1: | Almeria |
Birth Name: | Rocío de Meer Méndez |
Birth Date: | 26 December 1989 |
Birth Place: | Madrid, Kingdom of Spain |
Party: | Vox |
Children: | 2 |
Alma Mater: | Complutense University of Madrid |
Rocío de Meer Méndez (born 26 December 1989) is a Spanish lawyer and politician who has been a member of the Congress of Deputies since 2019 for Vox.
Méndez was born to a military family in Madrid. One of her grandparents was Colonel and politician Carlos de Meer de Ribera, the last civil governor of the Balearic Islands.[1] She studied law at the Complutense University of Madrid where she became president of the university's debate society. During this time, she met and became friends with future Vox leader Santiago Abascal.[2]
In the April 2019 elections she was elected as a deputy to the Congress of Deputies representing the Almeria constituency. She was re-elected in the subsequent election in November.