Pablo Echenique
Pablo Echenique | |
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Pablo Echenique Robba in 2018. | |
| Member of the Congress of Deputies | |
| In office 21 May 2019 – 17 August 2023 | |
| Constituency | Zaragoza |
| Member of the Aragonese Corts | |
| In office 18 June 2015 – 13 September 2017 | |
| Constituency | Zaragoza |
| Member of the European Parliament | |
| In office 1 July 2014 – 14 March 2015 | |
| Constituency | Spain |
| Personal details | |
| Born | Pablo Echenique Robba 28 August 1978 Rosario, Argentina |
| 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) is an Argentine-born Spanish physicist and politician. As a scientist, he holds a position at the Spanish National Research Council in Zaragoza (CSIC).
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.
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. The Supreme Court subsequently annulled this conviction after concluding that he did not make a direct accusation against the plaintiff's brother, but rather expressed a show of solidarity with his political colleague.