Inés Arrimadas

This name uses Spanish naming customs: the first or paternal family name is Arrimadas and the second or maternal family name is García.
Inés Arrimadas García
Constituency Barcelona
Member of the Catalan Parliament
Assumed office
25 November 2012
Leader of the Opposition in the Parliament of Catalonia
Assumed office
October 2, 2015
Preceded by Oriol Junqueras i Vies
Personal details
Born (1981-07-03) 3 July 1981
Jerez de la Frontera
Political party Citizens – Party of the Citizenry (2011–present)
Alma mater Pablo de Olavide University
Occupation Lawyer

Inés Arrimadas García (Jerez de la Frontera, born July 3, 1981) is one of the twenty five members of parliament the Parliament of Catalonia and is spokesperson for the Citizens party Catalonia.

She became a member of the party in 2011 and she first started being the spokesperson of the youth section. She became a member of parliament after the 2012 election.

Early life

Inés is the youngest of 5 children born to Rufino Arrimades and Inés García, both of whom came from Salmoral in the Province of Salamanca.[1]

Inés studied at the fee-paying Catholic school Nuestra Señora del Pilar[2] in Jerez de la Frontera. She dreamed of being an archaeologist and showed a great interest in the culture of Catalonia, to the point of taking language lessons from a Catalan classmate.[2]

She was also a passionate fan of FC Barcelona[3][4]

At 18 Inés began studying law at Pablo de Olavide University.[3] She also undertook postgraduate studies in international business at IPAG Business School in Nice organised through the Erasmus programme.[5][6]

Professional career

At 24, Inés worked for a year and a half in the petrochemical industry.[5][5][7]

For 6 years she worked as a consultant at D'Aleph in Barcelona, moving to the city in 2008.[2][3][5]

Politics

Inés became interested in Citizens in 2010 and the following year she became the party's youth spokesperson.[5]

References

  1. ↑ «Siempre que puedo digo que soy salmantina porque así me siento»
  2. 1 2 3 Del Campo, Eduardo (4 October 2015). "'La niña ya es imparable'". El Mundo. Retrieved 4 October 2015.
  3. 1 2 3 Ruiz de Almirón, Víctor (3 October 2015). "Inés Arrimadas, entre las playas de Cádiz y la Costa Brava". ABC. Retrieved 4 October 2015.
  4. ↑ Campillo, Óscar (2 October 2015). "Arrimadas: "Quiero que la selección vuelva al Camp Nou"". Marca. Retrieved 4 October 2015.
  5. 1 2 3 4 5 Ruiz de Almirón, Víctor (28 September 2015). "Arrimadas, la obra más perfecta de Rivera". ABC. Retrieved 4 October 2015.
  6. ↑ Ruiz Valdivia, Antonio (6 July 2015). "17 cosas que no sabías de Inés Arrimadas". The Huffington Post. Retrieved 4 October 2015.
  7. ↑ La medio tímida, El Español, 22 September 2015.
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