Francisco Igea
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Francisco Igea Arisqueta (born 17 April 1964) is a Spanish politician of the Citizens party. A doctor by profession, he led the party in the 2019 Castilian-Leonese regional election, and became vice president of the Junta of Castile and León after forming a government with the People's Party leader Alfonso Fernández Mañueco. In the 2022 election, his party lost all their seats except his own. He was previously a member of the Congress of Deputies (2015–2019) and came runner-up in his party's 2020 leadership election.
Biography
Born in Valladolid, Igea graduated in Medicine from the University of Valladolid. A specialist in the digestive system, he worked at a hospital in Palencia as head of department until 2013, when he volunteered for redundancy due to cuts.[1]
Igea contested the primaries to lead Union, Progress and Democracy in the 2015 Castilian-Leonese regional election, losing to Rafael Delgado. He then left the party, for Citizens.[1] He was elected to the Congress of Deputies in the Valladolid constituency in December 2015.[2] The following June, he was the only member of his party in Castile and León to win re-election.[3] In January 2017, he entered his party's central committee, responsible for health.[1]
In February 2019, Igea announced that he would challenge Silvia Clemente in the party primaries to lead in May's regional elections.[4] In March, on a recount, he defeated the former People's Party regional leader.[5] His party became the third largest in the Cortes of Castile and León behind the Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE) and the PP.[6] In July, his party formed a government with the PP, and he became regional vice president.[7]
In December 2019, a judge closed a case against Igea initiated by a party member who had accused him of threats in March.[8]
Igea announced his candidacy in February 2020 for Citizens' leadership election, standing gainst Inés Arrimadas.[9] She won by 76.9% to 22.3%.[10]
At the end of 2021, Mañueco called an early election with the aim of governing alone, as his counterpart Isabel Díaz Ayuso had achieved in the Community of Madrid.[11] Igea was named Citizens' lead candidate by the party's national leadership without the need of a primary, citing new rules in the party for when there is an unexpectedly short electoral campaign.[12] The election ended up with Citizens losing all their seats except Igea's while Vox made gains; he offered to align with the PP to top Vox governing.[13]
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