Rocío de Meer explained

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.

Notes and References

  1. News: Muere Carlos de Meer, el hombre que quiso anclar el franquismo. Riera Palma. Llorenç. Diario de Mallorca. 30 April 2004. 1 January 2021.
  2. News: De Meer, la guerrera de Vox que cuelga vídeos neonazis y es agredida por los nacionalistas. El Español. 6 September 2020. 1 January 2021.