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Ignacio Blanco

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Ignacio Blanco
Member of the General Junta of the Principality of Asturias
Assumed office
26 May 2019
Personal details
Born (1971-05-17) 17 May 1971 (age 53)
Gijón, Spain
Political partyVox
Alma materUniversity of Oviedo
University of Wisconsin

Ignacio Blanco Urizar (born 17 May 1971) is a Spanish politician, lawyer and economist. He has been a member of the General Junta of the Principality of Asturias since 2019 for the Vox party.

Biography

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Blanco is a native of Gijón and grew up in the Natahoyo district of the city.[1] He studied business management at the University of Oviedo before completing postgraduate studies at the University of Wisconsin–Eau Claire and a law conversion at the National Distance Education University (UNED).[2]

After graduating, he worked as the managing partner for a law firm in Asturias focusing on solvency matters and is a member of the Gijón Bar Association. He also authored a book The Expert and the Economic Test.[3]

Blanco was a member and secretary of the Spanish liberal think-tank The Friday Club at university before joining the nationalist Vox at its inception in 2013.[4] In 2019, he was elected as a member of the General Junta of the Principality of Asturias and subsequently became the leader of Vox in Asturias in 2020.[5]

Politically, he supports lowering taxes on rural areas to fight against depopulation.[6]

References

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  1. ^ "Ignacio Blanco, Vox en Asturias en las elecciones autonómicas 2019". Retrieved 27 June 2020.
  2. ^ ¿Quién soy? Archived 2019-10-06 at the Wayback Machine Página web de Ignacio Blanco.
  3. ^ "Inin abogados participa en el Mes de los Servicios Jurídicos en Asturias". El Comercio (in Spanish). 24 May 2018. Retrieved 2018-05-24.
  4. ^ "Vox entra en la Junta con dos escaños y anuncia una «oposición firme» al PSOE". 27 May 2019. Retrieved 27 May 2019.
  5. ^ "Ignacio Blanco dimite de sus cargos orgánicos en Vox por discrepancias con la dirección en Asturias". 6 October 2019. Retrieved 6 October 2019.
  6. ^ "Ignacio Blanco Urizar: "El paraíso natural se lo debemos a nuestras gentes del mundo rural"". 17 April 2019. Retrieved 2019-04-17.