Toni Cantó

Toni Cantó
Member of the Congress of Deputies
In office
1 April 2011 – Present
Constituency Valencia
Personal details
Born (1965-01-14) 14 January 1965
Valencia, Spain
Political party UPyD

Antonio Cantó García del Moral, known as Toni Cantó (born Valencia, 14 January 1965) is a Spanish actor, Citizens party politician and former UPyD politician, who represented Valencia Province in the Congress of Deputies from 2011 to April 2015 and again from December 2015 to the present.[1]

Career as actor

Prior to his involvement in politics, Cantó worked extensively in theatre, film and television, starring in Spanish series such as the sitcom 7 vidas.[2]

As politician

In 2011, Cantó was selected to head the UPyD list in Valencia Province[3] for the 2011 general election, where he gained a seat. In 2014, he was selected as UPyD candidate for President of the Generalitat Valenciana in the 2015 regional elections.[4] He resigned his seat in Congress in April 2015 and announced that he would also not be standing for President in the Valencian regional elections.[5] In his resignation announcement he stated that he would consider whether to remain in UPyD after the party's congress in June 2015.[5]

Cantó had been one of the UPyD figures most critical of the leadership of Rosa Díez.[6] Following poor local and regional election results,[7] Díez resigned and Cantó supported Irene Lozano in the subsequent leadership election on 12 July 2015, in which Lozano lost to Andrés Herzog. 4 days later, Cantó announced that he would sit as an independent and would seek the number two position on the Citizens' list for the 2015 Spanish general election.[8] He was chosen as the second candidate[9] and was elected to Congress in the 2015 election.[10]

References

  1. ↑ Gracia, Ana (12 April 2014). "62 diputados con vivienda en Madrid siguen cobrando 1.800 € al mes para "alojamiento"". El Confidencial (in Spanish). Retrieved 14 December 2014.
  2. ↑ Vilches, Isabel (13 March 2011). "La 'Vida loca' de Toni Cantó, Esther Arroyo y Lolita". El Mundo (in Spanish). Retrieved 14 December 2014.
  3. ↑ Pi, Vanessa (2 September 2011). "Toni Cantó encabezará la lista electoral de UPyD en Valencia". El País (in Spanish). Retrieved 14 December 2014.
  4. ↑ Vázquez, Cristina (18 October 2014). "Toni Cantó será el candidato de UPyD a la presidencia de la Generalitat". El País (in Spanish) (Valencia). Retrieved 14 December 2014.
  5. 1 2 Beltran, Adolf (7 April 2015). "Cantó renuncia a su acta de diputado y a ser candidato de UPyD por Valencia". El País (in Spanish) (Valencia). Retrieved 7 April 2015.
  6. ↑ Sanjuan, Hector (24 March 2015). "Toni Cantó lidera la facción crítica y pide acercarse a Ciudadanos". El Mundo (in Spanish) (Valencia). Retrieved 29 August 2015.
  7. ↑ García De Blas, Elsa (25 May 2015). "IU y UPyD son las principales víctimas del cambio político". El País (in Spanish) (Valencia). Retrieved 29 August 2015.
  8. ↑ Mateo, Juan (16 July 2015). "Rivera apuesta por Cantó, que se alista a las primarias de Ciudadanos". El País (in Spanish) (Valencia). Retrieved 29 August 2015.
  9. ↑ "Toni Cantó será el número dos de la lista de Ciudadanos por Valencia". Público (in Spanish) (Madrid). 17 July 2015. Retrieved 21 December 2015.
  10. ↑ "Elecciones Generales: Los nuevos diputados valencianos". Levante-EMV (in Spanish) (Valencia). 21 December 2015. Retrieved 21 December 2015.
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