Macario Valpuesta Bermúdez (born 12 July 1959)[1] is a Spanish jurist and politician of the Vox party. He served in the Parliament of Andalusia from 2020 to 2022, as the party's group leader.
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Born in Seville, Valpuesta has doctorates in Classics and Law, and is a professor of Roman Law at the Pablo de Olavide University in the city.[2] He is married to Reyes Romero, a Vox member of the Congress of Deputies representing Seville.[3]
Valpuesta described having left-wing sympathies in his youth during the Spanish transition to democracy, and wore the flag of Andalusia.[4] He ran for Vox in the Senate of Spain in the Seville constituency in the April 2019 general election, finishing 11th in the four-seat constituency.[3] In the following election in November, he came seventh.[5]
In September 2020, Valpuesta replaced the resigned Francisco Serrano Castro in the Parliament of Andalusia, representing its Seville constituency.[2] He became the leader of the party's parliamentary group.[6] Despite this position, he was not selected as a candidate for the 2022 Andalusian regional election.[7]
Valpuesta wrote in August 2019 that Blas Infante, the father of Andalusian nationalism, was a Freemason who created an "absurd" semi-Arab identity for the Andalusians, including their green and white flag; he nonetheless said that Infante was more moderate than his respective Basque and Catalan equivalents Sabino Arana and Enric Prat de la Riba and did not deserve to be assassinated.[2] He also wrote that what he called the "homosexualist" movement deserves to be criticised according to the same freedom that allows for religion and ideology to be criticised.[2]
References edit
- ^ "Valpuesta Bermúdez, Macario" (in Spanish). Parliament of Andalusia. Retrieved 20 May 2022.
- ^ a b c d Herreros, Román (1 September 2020). "Un profesor de Latín y marido de una diputada de Vox ocupará el escaño de Serrano" [A Latin professor and husband of a Vox deputy will occupy Serrano's seat] (in Spanish). El Plural. Retrieved 20 May 2022.
- ^ a b "Resultados de las elecciones en la provincia de Sevilla - Senado" [Election results in the province of Seville - Senate]. El Mundo (in Spanish). 10 November 2019. Retrieved 20 May 2022.
- ^ Ortiz, Ángel (6 June 2021). "Macario Valpuesta: el profe de latín y diputado de Vox en Andalucía que ha acabado con el lenguaje inclusivo" [Macario Valpuesta: the Latin teacher and Vox deputy in Andalusia who has got rid of inclusive language]. El Mundo (in Spanish). Retrieved 20 May 2022.
- ^ "10N - Resultados Senado Sevilla" [10 November - Senate Results Seville] (in Spanish). RTVE. Retrieved 20 May 2022.
- ^ "Vox pide la dimisión de Juan Marín y el adelanto de las elecciones andaluzas" [Vox asks for the resignation of Juan Marín and for the Andalusian elections to be brought forward]. ABC (in Spanish). 16 November 2021. Retrieved 20 May 2022.
- ^ Marqués Perales, Juan Manuel (16 May 2022). "Elecciones Andalucía: Vox elimina en sus listas a la mitad del grupo parlamentario" [Andalusia elections: Vox eliminates half of its parliamentary group from its lists]. Diario de Sevilla (in Spanish). Retrieved 20 May 2022.