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Pablo Echenique
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 Pablo Echenique Robba in 2018.
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| Member of the Congress of Deputies | |
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Assumed office 21 May 2019 |
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| Constituency | Zaragoza |
| Member of the Aragonese Corts | |
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In office 18 June 2015 – 13 September 2017 |
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| Constituency | Zaragoza |
| Member of the European Parliament | |
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In office 1 July 2014 – 14 March 2015 |
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| Constituency | Spain |
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Pablo Echenique Robba
28 August 1978 Rosario, Argentina |
| Political party | Podemos |
| Spouse | María Alejandra Nelo Bazán |
| Education | Doctorate in Physics |
| Alma mater | Universidad de Zaragoza |
| Occupation | Physicist and politician |
Pablo Echenique Robba (born 28 August 1978 in Rosario, Santa Fe, Argentina) is an Argentine-born Spanish physicist and politician.
He came to Spain aged 13 to live in Zaragoza. He had Spinal muscular atrophy. 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. 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.
As a scientist, he holds a position at the Spanish National Research Council in Zaragoza (CSIC).
In October 2020, he was fined €11,040 for the irregular employment of his assistant. In November 2020, he was fined €80,000 for saying that a man who was murdered in 1985 was a rapist.
External links
- Pablo Echenique on Facebook
- Pablo Echenique on Twitter
- De retrones y hombres (in Spanish)
- Pablo Echenique Robba at the European Parliament