Victor González | |
Honorific-Suffix: | MP |
Office1: | Member of the Congress of Deputies |
Term Start1: | 10 November 2019 |
Constituency1: | Salamanca |
Birth Name: | Victor Guido Gonzalez Coello de Portugal |
Birth Date: | 5 September 1975 |
Birth Place: | Salamanca, Kingdom of Spain |
Alma Mater: | University of Portsmouth Complutense University of Madrid |
Victor Guido Gonzalez Coello de Portugal (born September 5, 1975) is a Spanish businessman and politician. He is a member of the Congress of Deputies for the Vox party.
González graduated with a degree in European Business from the University of Portsmouth in the United Kingdom followed by a Master's in finance at the Complutense University of Madrid.[1] He was the founder of a management consultancy business called Management Productive Resources SL and ran a number of local companies including a taxi firm which he owned with Louis Alphonse de Bourbon. According to media reports, González was investigated for "accounting irregularities" during his business career.[2] [3]
He was elected to the Congress of Deputies in the November 2019 Spanish general election for Vox representing the Salamanca constituency.[4] He also serves as Vox's spokesman on economic policy.[5]
González travelled to Bolivia in January 2020, shortly after the coup that overthrew the socialist president Evo Morales in order to show his support for the new regime.[6]